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Toni's bookshelf: read

The Godfather of Kathmandu (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #4)
Ape House
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Operation Napoleon
Walking Dead
The Sentimentalists
The Heretic Queen
The Midnight House
Cross Fire
Peony in Love
Absurdistan
Nefertiti
Finding Nouf: A Novel
City of Veils: A Novel
First Daughter
A Place of Hiding
Amagansett
Peter Pan


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Friday, June 21, 2024

"Two Soldiers", by Anders Roslund


Grens & Sundkvist book #6

This is a bleak tale of teen gang running amok.

Stockholm is being terrorized by a teenage gang’s reign. The crime wave is being directed from inside a maximum security prison by an 18 year old named Leon. His blood brother Gabriel’s girlfriend Wanda regularly smuggle in pills as a mule. The gang has no reservation about recruiting 12 years old ....and the book goes on. I suggest you read the synopsis to get a better idea what you’ll be into....I lost interest and abandoned it before I reached to end...Now did I bailed out too fast? Maybe.

The premise of this book sounded so good that I finally brought it up from my very long TBR list to give it priority. Frankly it should have stayed at the bottom even forgotten. The beginning is very disjointed and difficult to follow. I had a hard time getting into a narrative that is not told in chapters but in short clips of a page or two where we have point of view that changes on a wimp. This choppy narrative and the merry-go-round changing point of view are very confusing.

“Two Soldiers” is a difficult 600 pages read that focusses on the street gang, it is raw and brutal.

This is one book that will indeed divide readers.....It was far from being my cup of tea....

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