Hans KoppelRecensioni
Autore di Never Coming Back: A Novel
Recensioni
She's Never Coming Back di Hans Koppel
En fin och oerhört komprimerad liten bok där fantasin flyter ihop med verkligheten och där jag skrattar åt eländet med en klump i halsen. Perfekt fångat.
En av de bättre i sin genre.
Sphere knows how to undersell a book calling You’re Mine Now by Hans Koppel calling it a Swedish Thriller Phenomenon it is far more than that. This is a book that once you start to read you need to finish part in fear part in hope and when that fails in prayer. This is one of the most compulsive and graphic reads in a long time that I feared I would never want to put down. This fills all the clichés in that it really is a book that keeps you on tenterhooks, is a page turner with plenty of revenge and retribution.
Anna is a features editor on Family Life magazine and is happily married to Magnus with Hedda their 10 year old daughter. Anna attends a business conference with her colleagues once a year to plan the magazine and various feature. After the dinner they retire to the bar for a few drinks with some advertising executives, two old guys and a young buck who attracts a lot of attention from the ladies. This young buck Erik invites Anna to his hotel room and she tells him she is married, but somehow she ends up in his bed and has some great sex with him, and they then meet again for a few more sex sessions.
It is only when Anna tries to end the relationship and extricate herself from something very weird that her problems begin. Erik becomes her stalker and will not hear anything about ending the relationship. He believes she will never be able to tell of her affair too Magnus and Erik sees Magnus as the man who stands in his way of being happy with Anna. So begins the full psychological torture of stalking for Anna and everywhere she looks all she can see is Erik. Things are worse when she finds out that he has filmed their sex sessions and she really needs to break away.
As Anna tries to break away things start to happen around her that at first the police think that she is over reacting, but when things start happening a lot closer to home does Erik’s sinister activities start to attract the attention of the police. Whether that is enough to stop Erik one will just have to read the book to see how it ends after you have been drawn in by this compulsive story.
Dit spannende debuut leest op topsnelheid weg. Heerlijk om in één ruk uit te lezen. De verhaalopbouw komt vlot op gang en blijft ook de hele tijd de lezer intrigeren. Het taalgebruik is makkelijk, de personages komen prima tot hun recht en ook de diverse verwikkelingen uit heden en verleden werken naar een ontknoping toe. Met deze thriller heeft het Scandinavische continent weer een prima schrijver in hun gelederen!
The main character is Mike his wife Ylva goes missing. No one knows whats happened to her. It turns out she has been kidnapped held by some new neighbours.
This book is very easy to read a real page turner albeit silly in places. I really enjoyed it though. I can see this being made into a film soon.
Aside from that, the book is about a wife, Ylva, who doesn't come home one day, just vanishes. She leaves a husband, Mike and daughter, Sanna grieving, trying to understand what happened to her and after so long just assume she's dead. What they don't know is frightening. She's being held captive by the neighborhood (who is harboring a grudge), in a sound proof room in their basement where her only link to the outside world is a video camera set up to record her own house where she can see Mike and Sanna coming and going.
The book did get my heart racing and it did keep me quite entertained (even though not funny at all). I didn’t care for the ending, I wish this was a book that had an alternate ending that I could also read.
I will definitely recommend!! Thank you NetGalley for giving me the chance to read this!
Historien är i sig inte helt lyckad; boken är så kort att när en av de viktigare kapitlen visar sig innehålla inte en utan två sammanträffanden så blir det lite för mycket, och slutet går att se på två mils avstånd. Det som är behållningen är snarare skildringen av allt skitsnack, allt subtilt maktspel och manövrerande som pågår på Johannas arbetsplats. När Johanna tar av sig snällhetshatten leder det inte till att hon blir mer utfryst, utan att hon tar sig upp. Och när hon kommit upp har hon inte mycket medlidande med de som är kvar därnere.
Det är inte fantastiskt, men det är cyniskt och det är bra. Jag hoppas i alla fall kunna undvika den typ av arbetsplats som Johanna fastnat på.
The premise of this book was really good and sounded intriguing; when Ylva seemingly disappears after a night out with her colleagues, her husband Mike isn't overly concerned at first. However, as more time passes he becomes worried, as well as the prime suspect in her disappearance. Unbeknownst to both him and the police however, Ylva is very much alive- and close by- infact she is being held hostage in a soundproofed basement directly opposite her own house, with a camera rigged up by her captives so she can see exactly what is going on with her own family...
I have to say that the plot of this book was compelling and it did hold my attention after a fairly slow beginning and what I initially thought would be a cast of too many characters. The writing is pacey with just the right amount of suspense to keep the reader going- you really want to know what is going to happen to Ylva as well as why she has found herself in the predicament she is. As the story slowly unravels with little twists and turns you can imagine the torture she is going through at being trapped but having to witness the outside world through a TV monitor and particularly the actions of her husband and young daughter surviving without her.
Characters are well drawn and believable. Ylva's back story and past actions were interesting and added a nice dimension to the tale, as well as Mike's paranoia and weaknesses. I loved Sanna and her little quirks and foibles which were emphasised all the more when Mike was left on his own with her.
I have however given this book four stars and not five because I did think that some of the scenes were a little bit gratuitous and thrown in just for the sake of it when perhaps the reader could have used their own imagination. Also, I would have liked to have read a bit more about the psychological impact that being held captive was having on Ylva, as opposed to the extracts at the top of the chapters instead.
Overall, this was a compelling, absorbing thriller and definitely worth a read. As an aside, as `Hans Koppel' is a pseudonym, I would very much like to know who this writer really is so I could read more by him/her under their real name in future!
*This review also appears on Amazon.co.uk*
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