“First goddamn week of winter.”

74. Outside – Ragnar Jonasson

Daniel’s instinct not to go on this “ptarmigan hunting” trip was correct. He should not have left London and his 20 year old girlfriend, no matter how unsuccessful his career was, to return to his native Iceland and all the secrets he left behind amongst himself and his friends from college…and Gunnlaugur, who he knew from the before time and no one likes.

This was an all right thriller, a couple of the things that came up to cause tension did not really work, like what’s in the cabin, and I’m not sure the jumping back and forth in time was efficient since with the constantly shifting perspective I didn’t get a weight to some of the flashbacks. And I didn’t really care about anyone involved at all, so there was no one to side with and ground the story or make it more suspenseful. That said though, it was a super fast read. Ludicrous speed. Go.

Pickles and Belvedere, a brother and sister with hunting-trip based plots to whisper about.