Horror can be, and often is, in the eye of the beholder. It's an emotion that happens in the nervous system, not the brain. I'm always on the hunt for the next thing that's going to scare the pants off me. Over the years, there have been long dry spells. I'm getting older, and more critical. I don't scare as easy as I used to and most of my horror consumption of late has been of the film kind, not the book kind. That doesn't mean I stop looking. When a co-worker brought I Remember You to my attention, I was intrigued.
It was in translation from Icelandic. I had never read anything by an Icelandic author before and this particular one was being touted as terrifying. So I took a chance, and I'm really glad I did.
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This is a ghost story, and like a lot of the best ghost stories, there is a mystery that demands to be solved. I Remember You is a duel narrative that switches off every chapter. The first narrative is of three friends who travel to a remote abandoned village in Iceland. Their plan is to renovate a property there and make it a travel destination for those seeking natural beauty and escape. From the first moments of their arrival, the friends begin to notice strange occurrences.
As the days pass, things get stranger and more frightening as the group realize they are trapped with no easy escape. The second narrative follows a doctor whose son disappeared three years previously. His body was never found and the loss continues to torment him and his estranged wife.
As the chapters flip back and forth often ending on a cliffhanger , the tension and stakes ratchet up accordingly. The two dueling narratives eventually collide and combine in a most satisfying way. This isn't a fast-paced story. It takes its time. Each reveal meant to be savored. I recommend reading this late at night, preferably with the wind howling high and loud outside your window and if the lights should flicker, well -- don't be alarmed. It's just the wind. I enjoyed this book a lot. It's moody and atmospheric and creepy as all hell in parts.
This would make a fantastic movie I'm going to betray my reader heart here and say it would probably make a better movie than book. I love ghost stories on film and if you love any of the following movies, you will probably love this book. Do you want to see something really scary? View all 30 comments. View all 4 comments.
View all 3 comments. I Remember You is a chilling, suspenseful ghost story, written in the style of a Scandinavian thriller. There is so much going on in this book, including numerous revelations and twists to keep the pl I Remember You is a chilling, suspenseful ghost story, written in the style of a Scandinavian thriller.
There is so much going on in this book, including numerous revelations and twists to keep the plot speeding along, and the connections between all these strange happenings are cleverly done. The story and the links between these different people and places are very complicated, and although I'd guessed a few of the revelations by the end, most of the twists were surprising and immensely satisfying. I was constantly on edge reading this. Think twice before reading this before bedtime!
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I couldn't help finding the treatment of her character a little heavy-handed, as it seemed so obvious that the reader wasn't meant to like her, and this made her connection in Freyr's story and her ending much more predictable than the rest of the revelations. Well, I was right about that, but it was frustrating that she was indirectly blamed for certain things, just because she was attractive woman that Freyr or any man could never be expected to resist and not have an affair with.
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Oct 07, K. But it was still great! This is the second book I've read by Yrsa Sigudardottir, and I've thoroughly enjoyed both of them. She does a spectacular job of taking two seeming Trigger warnings: She does a spectacular job of taking two seemingly unrelated cases and ultimately weaving them together in such a masterful way that you don't realise just how closely connected the two cases are until some throwaway comment makes you go "OH SHIT!
This story is so compelling and atmospheric and full of characters that you feel for while also hating them a little bit???
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But basically, it was great. Did I mention it's creepy? Am avut p Creepy! The chapters switch back and forth between two concurrent storylines. The alternating chapters follow a psychiatrist investigating a series of unusual deaths that are seeming 3. The alternating chapters follow a psychiatrist investigating a series of unusual deaths that are seemingly connected to his missing son.
The most interesting part of reading this book is trying to figure out how the two storylines intersect. While I was able to piece together small parts of it as I was reading, there were other parts that kept me guessing until the very end. Personally, I enjoyed this mix of gradual reveals. Sigurdardottir does an impressive job overall crafting an intricate mystery that never feels forced or ridiculous.
If ghost stories and mysteries are your thing, give this one a try. The Icelandic setting helps set it apart from typical books in its genre. Mar 05, Anna-Lisa rated it really liked it Shelves: Ein Ehepaar und eine gute Freundin kaufen ein Haus auf einer abgelegenen Insel, um es zu renovieren und eine Ferienpension daraus zu machen. Sie bleiben mitten im Winter, vollkommen alleine und ohne Strom auf der Insel, in dem verlassenen Haus. Noch unheimlicher wird es, als sie die Kamera des Vorbesitzers finden Zur selben Zeit geschieht auf dem Festland ein scheinbar harmloser Vandalismusfall, zu dem der Psychologe Freyr hinzugezogen wird.
In dieser Geschichte finden sich nicht haufenweise Leichen und Blut, es ist ein Hauch von Gespenstergeschichte und Thriller. Besonderns klasse fand ich, dass die Autorin es geschafft hat, dass ich mich wirklich gegruselt hab. Ich hatte Angst, im Dunkeln zu lesen. Allerdings ist das auch schon das einzig wirklich Positive an dem Buch.
Die Geschichte ist die typische Klischeegeschichte, wie man sie aus einem Horrorfilm kennt. Die Charaktere waren eher farblos, man konnte nur schlecht eine Beziehung zu ihnen aufbauen. Gerade als Fan von einer Serie wie "Supernatural" oder "Akte X", oder als Kenner von Horrorfilmen wie oben genannt, erkennt man recht schnell das Muster, das hinter der Geschichte steckt und man erkennt auch, worum es hier geht.
Dinge, die der Leser so nicht direkt vorhersehbar sind, die aber dennoch in das typische Klischee eines Horrorstreifens passen.
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Confesso que pulei algumas porque achei demasiado descritivo e exaustivo. No final tudo se conjugou: Tudo faz, afinal, sentido. The rising sense of dread was unrelenting. The situation of the three people in the old house was particularly unleavened by any hope that things would improve. While not usually a fan of supernatural themes, I really enjoyed if that's the right word this one. Yrsa's plot sustained the tension throughout, with nothing being revealed prematurely or cluttered by extraneous detail.
She also presented the physical and psychological environment very effectively. People often come apart in enforced i The rising sense of dread was unrelenting. People often come apart in enforced isolation, and her examination of how this transpired in her characters was excellent.
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I always feel that one can measure the literary worth of a book with supernatural elements by the 'extraction test': With a few plot deviations and alterations, I feel that she would have passed the test, such is the calibre of her characterisation and other writing skills.
To me, Yrsa is developing into a fine writer.
An Icelandic ghost story which doesn't really suit its American high-school sounding title that for me at least, had a great balance of the amusing and the slightly edgy. A lot of people have said they found this book genuinely scary, and I can see how that could happen as it plays a lot on universals like noises heard in the house, odd shadows, things seen out of the corner of the eye, dogs howling unexpectedly.
I can't pretend to be hardened, because only a couple of years ago I did get jump An Icelandic ghost story which doesn't really suit its American high-school sounding title that for me at least, had a great balance of the amusing and the slightly edgy. I can't pretend to be hardened, because only a couple of years ago I did get jumpy after watching some s and 50s horror films the idea of ghosts specifically doesn't worry me, though they did make me very sensitive to noises - but for whatever reason, whether it's the different medium or any number of other factors, this story didn't have that effect.
I read it like a type of low fantasy, curious to find out what the natural laws in this particular world would be, what would turn out to be human, what would turn out to be supernatural. It may have been that open mindedness wrt causation that meant I found the big reveals in the later part of the book genuinely suprising. A couple of supporting points were easy for the reader to work out earlier than the protagonists, because the author gives the audience more information than the two separate parties of characters have.
It's also not impossible that someone reading this when more awake than I was might suspect certain other things earlier. Alternating chapters tell the stories of two sets of people, with significant debt to horror stock characters. One of the owners has already died, peacefully, before the book opens, which lends foreboding, and the silliness of the endeavour is emphasised in true horror movie fashion: The three of them, all alone in the dead of winter in a deserted village way up north in the middle of nowhere, without electricity or heat, and the only way back by sea.
If something happened, they had no one to rely on but themselves. I have a guilty-pleasure liking for books and programmes about doing up old houses and a less embarrassed one for stories about the outdoors and for a while I wanted to hear more about the work and the plans, hoping that Sarah Beeney would come along and give them a lecture. There is amusingly obvious foreshadowing at times, but more often the realist tone made me think in very matter-of-fact terms. The other strand is that of the rationalist-scientist confronted with the supernatural and trying their damndest not to believe.
Freyr which strikes me as a burdensome name, but perhaps it isn't unusual there is a doctor recently moved to a cottage hospital in north west Iceland, across a fjord from the deserted village where the three friends are. Of course, the locals avail themselves of his specialist knowledge and he finds himself called in to help investigate the suicide of a retired woman, and less formally by the policewoman who lives across the road, who's trying to work out the motivations behind a peculiar attack of vandalism and graffiti at a local kindergarten.
By contrast, Freyr was excellently drawn. He is highly self-aware, constantly monitors his thoughts, talking himself round and trying to pull back from anything that might tip him over the edge. More so than, say, some types of counsellor might be, he is concerned with labels, "normality", and trying desperately to make sure he continues to appear as one of "us" not "them" in his professional world - yet he is still made sympathetic by having a more humanistic approach than it's implied the norm is, more interested in listening to elderly rambling patients.
Ultimately it is a ghost story. Wonderfully constructed with two parallel accounts sharing a chapter until both narratives converge in a spine-chilling climax. Set in the Icelandic Westfjords the author's love of her country is demonstrated in her wonderful Wow! Set in the Icelandic Westfjords the author's love of her country is demonstrated in her wonderful descriptions of the land, sea and weather.
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The themes of isolation, missing boys and haunted places run through the book. Cleverly having Freyr a doctor, clinical psychiatrist and specialist in human behavior as one of those trying to piece the puzzle together is great as his skepticism and reluctance to accept anything that all his training can not explain away.
This means the readers doubts are acceptable as we hide behind his logic but when Freyr accepts his own visions as phantoms, indeed his own dead son we no longer have anywhere to go and our own levels of fear know no bounds. Brilliantly translated into English this book will stay with you long after you finish the last page. This is a wonderful book and recommended without reservation and I don't even like ghost stories as a rule. Her unexpected plot twists are both original and suspenseful. Whereas her other stories feature corny humor and light banter that softens the blows of the bloody details and deranged circumstances of the brutal murders she solves, this novel is more somber and reflective.
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