It felt like I was watching an episode of SVU with clever police officers, intrigue, and so many damn layers of evidence that you shock yourself with how you missed it before. However, I didn’t find myself gripping my pillow or yelling at the characters to run away and hide. Perhaps it’s because I’ve read horror fiction and even suspense thrillers with horrific amounts of blood that I’m desensitized to it.

I’ve read and heard that this book was scary with some pretty gorey details, but I didn’t find it that scary. I guess Jo Nesbo did this almost in a subconscious way where I didn’t know they were clues until the very end. It’s always these little hints and clues that compel me to continue reading. Is it this piece of info that was provided all the way at the beginning? Why is it important that we know about their extensive backgrounds? Are we dealing with a red herring?Īnd it’s good that Jo Nesbo breadcrumbed his story throughout the novel. Jo Nesbo is one of those writers that drops clues throughout the novel, but you’re never sure what they are. How did a crime fiction novel that I’m not usually into was read in an entire sitting? Only rarely does this happen to me and I’m shocked that The Snowman kept my attention the entire time. I tried to think a little bit about how that happened. I ended up reading this novel during my #24in48 readathon, so not only did I finish this book but I finished it in a sitting. As his investigation deepens, something else emerges: he is becoming a pawn in an increasingly terrifying game whose rules are devised-and constantly revised-by the killer. Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter he’s received and the disappearance of Jonas’s mother-and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall. Around its neck is his mother’s pink scarf. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. I’ll do my best, but just so you know this might not be the best interpretation of this book. This isn’t a book I normally choose to read, so I had to think a little bit how I would review it.

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