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Killers Guide to Iceland

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The Killer's Guide to Iceland.

Everything is wrong with this book but what strikes the reader at once is how boring the heroine is. Her perky "I am a survivor" attitude is so annoying. She is constantly reminding her lover that Icelanders have survived volcanic eruptions, isolation and whatnot for hundreds of years. Her constant harping is so grinding on the nerves that being an icelandic woman myself I am convinced that had my foremothers been like that, my forefathers would surely have killed them. Thus ensuring the extinction of the race. I have always been certain that the mark of a true survivor lies in the fact that he is to busy surviving to talk about it much. Those that go on about their sickness and deseases don't have the gumption necessary to get up and do what it takes to beat the illness. Maybe somebody likes personalities like Birna Sveinsdóttir but I am certain that no one can love them. The same goes for other Icelanders that show up in this book. They are boring and uninteresting. As for the love affair between the two main characters it sounds stupid. What woman in her right mind would invite a man to live her house that didn't know her child at all? And as an Icelander I can assure all of you out there that the wise woman who knows her herbs is extinct in Iceland and an educated young woman here would not live in a shack.

While its portrayal of Icelanders may not be spot on, this book is a good one if you like a good, intelligent mystery.