Title: A spectacular failure
Product review: I picked this book up on a whim and kept with it because I wanted to see if somehow Hoeg could save an incredibly improbable story by the end. He did not, nor did he even come near. Throughout the book I never came close to suspending my disbelief, which in turn meant that I viewed the story as a very odd curiousity rather than a novel. My hat is off to Hoeg for being unafraid of trying to pull off a plot line that, if he had succeeded, would have demonstrated an amazing writing ability. Alas, he did not, and though his prose is highly skilled, one is left at the end feeling quite unsatisfied.
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