The Ice Princess

Camilla Lackberg's The Ice Princess was hailed to be a good book for fans of Stieg Larsson and while it was a decent story, it was no The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Translated from Swedish, I think there were times when something was lost in translation or something was explained too much due to the translation.

I think it was a little over halfway through the book when one sentence caused the whole thing to click for me and I knew who and why. At that point it made the second half of the book unbearably slow. It just seemed like it took a really long time to wrap up loose ends and even after the killer is revealed and arrested there was still a while before the book finished.

The other thing that bothered me was the unfinished business with Erica's sister and brother-in-law. I kept waiting for that to happen and it never did so I felt like I was left hanging there. Seeing as this is a series I suppose eventually it will get figured out, but it still bugged me. I'll give it one more book and see how I feel then.