Comments on: Review: Missing, Karen Alvtegen

By: Reg

Reg — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:54:18 +0000

I’d be interested to hear what you think of Alvtegen’s Shame!

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The Sunday Salon 2009-07-19: Week in Review « Reactions to Reading — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:21:42 +0000

[...] got back into fiction reading with Michael Robotham’s Shatter and Kate Alvtegen’s Missing which ended up being my 7th 5 out 5 rating for the year (out of 71 books so [...]

By: Maxine

Maxine — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:09:21 +0000

I’m so relieved you liked this, Bernadette – I scrolled down to your rating with trepidation before reading your review! I agree with your take on this book – it seemed to me just as intense as “Girl who played with Fire” but at half (?) the length. (I enjoyed GWPWF, of course). Although the book is short, I got really het up about that awful mother and the other people who ruined Sibylla’s childhood – very angry in fact. I think a book that can arouse that degree of emotion must be pretty good.

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reviews and reactions « Scandinavian Crime Fiction — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:06:01 +0000

[...] Bernadette reacts very well indeed to reading Karin Alvtegen’s Missing and finds the heroine, a resourceful but troubled young woman who is homeless in a semi-voluntary way (and the layered timeframe of the narration explains why). One of the things that struck me was that, unlike so many books these days, it didn’t delve deeply into every minute detail of Sybilla’s life and in fact left quite a few things up to the reader’s imagination. This is such a contrast from some of the detail-laden books the size of house bricks that I’ve read lately that I had almost forgotten that great stories can be told in less than 600 pages and that blood and gore aren’t necessary to create atmosphere . . . Missing is wonderfully sparse, genuinely exciting (I don’t stay up into the wee hours for just any old yarn) and quite thought provoking at the same time in the way it dealt with the issue of life’s outsiders. [...]