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Skyggefødt
150 pages, Hardcover
First published March 17, 2014
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July 19, 2015
If I could describe this book in one word, it would be this one: weird.
See, I'm not sure that this book really knows what it wants to be. At first it was okay. There were four teens on the run, Andreas, Pia, Kalle and Jonas. After driving a while, they decide to camp at an old farm they discovered by an accident. Jonas, who is our narrator, soon finds out that they aren't the only living things at that farm, and that the woods that are surrounding them is home to a creature he thought only existed in old folklore and myths.
Turns out that the creature living in the woods is something called a hulder, or Huldra. In Scandinavian folklore, Huldra takes shape as a beautiful woman with a cow tail. She is often known to lure young men into the woods with her to kill them.
At that point I was really excited, because I had never read any book about Huldra before. The atmosphere was dark and creepy, and I was practically glued to the page.
But then the book started having a midlife crisis, and instead of being a book about Huldra it decided to be a book about flesh-eating garden gnomes.
- It might look cute, but I swear it won't be cute anymore when it starts gnawing at your leg.
I was kind of wondering where Huldra went. Did she have an appointment with the dentist? Were she at the cinema with her friends? All of a sudden she wasn't in the book at all, and it was like she had never been there.
This book had potential, but trying to cram Huldra and the flesh-eating garden gnomes into a tiny book of barely 200 pages became too much. It just didn't work out at all, even though it might sound awesome. It didn't leave room for creating a backstory, or to cover the plot holes that showed up every now and then.
As for the characters, there were nothing special or remarkable about them. They were okay, but I didn't really get to know them, and I honestly don't have a lot about them to tell.
See, I'm not sure that this book really knows what it wants to be. At first it was okay. There were four teens on the run, Andreas, Pia, Kalle and Jonas. After driving a while, they decide to camp at an old farm they discovered by an accident. Jonas, who is our narrator, soon finds out that they aren't the only living things at that farm, and that the woods that are surrounding them is home to a creature he thought only existed in old folklore and myths.
Turns out that the creature living in the woods is something called a hulder, or Huldra. In Scandinavian folklore, Huldra takes shape as a beautiful woman with a cow tail. She is often known to lure young men into the woods with her to kill them.
At that point I was really excited, because I had never read any book about Huldra before. The atmosphere was dark and creepy, and I was practically glued to the page.
But then the book started having a midlife crisis, and instead of being a book about Huldra it decided to be a book about flesh-eating garden gnomes.
- It might look cute, but I swear it won't be cute anymore when it starts gnawing at your leg.
I was kind of wondering where Huldra went. Did she have an appointment with the dentist? Were she at the cinema with her friends? All of a sudden she wasn't in the book at all, and it was like she had never been there.
This book had potential, but trying to cram Huldra and the flesh-eating garden gnomes into a tiny book of barely 200 pages became too much. It just didn't work out at all, even though it might sound awesome. It didn't leave room for creating a backstory, or to cover the plot holes that showed up every now and then.
As for the characters, there were nothing special or remarkable about them. They were okay, but I didn't really get to know them, and I honestly don't have a lot about them to tell.
July 31, 2023
Skyggefødt tar for seg ungdommer som stikker av, men får mer å dy med enn de kanskje hadde forventet.
Boken er lettlest, og har et interessant plott. Dette utvikler seg underveis, og synes det var morsomt.
Det er kanskje noe som skurrer med karakterene, men det er lett å overse. Jan Tore Noreng forteller en litt annerledes historie, og det er gøy. Noe jeg ikke har vært borti før, og det var morsomt. Jeg hadde heller ingen større forventninger til boken, og ble dermed positivt overrasket. Passer godt til ungdom som vil ha litt norsk fantasy. Noe er mindre troverdig enn annet, men boken er lettlest og er en thriller som kan passe for de fleste.
Boken er lettlest, og har et interessant plott. Dette utvikler seg underveis, og synes det var morsomt.
Det er kanskje noe som skurrer med karakterene, men det er lett å overse. Jan Tore Noreng forteller en litt annerledes historie, og det er gøy. Noe jeg ikke har vært borti før, og det var morsomt. Jeg hadde heller ingen større forventninger til boken, og ble dermed positivt overrasket. Passer godt til ungdom som vil ha litt norsk fantasy. Noe er mindre troverdig enn annet, men boken er lettlest og er en thriller som kan passe for de fleste.
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