Midnight Sun
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Midnight Sun
Narrated by:
Kim Gordon
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Kim Gordon
About this listen
Jon is on the run. He has betrayed Oslo’s biggest crime lord: The Fisherman.
Fleeing to an isolated corner of Norway, to a mountain town so far north that the sun never sets, Jon hopes to find sanctuary amongst a local religious sect.
Hiding out in a shepherd’s cabin in the wilderness, all that stands between him and his fate are Lea, a bereaved mother and her young son, Knut.
But while Lea provides him with a rifle and Knut brings essential supplies, the midnight sun is slowly driving Jon to insanity.
And then he discovers that The Fisherman’s men are getting closer…
Narrated by Kim Gordon.
Critic reviews
A perfectly-formed thriller, written in pure, unadorned prose, that pierces the heart with its icy brilliance (Deirdre O'Brien)
A thrilling tale (Cole Moreton)
Another success for Nesbo (Geoffrey Wansell)
A short, lyrical tale where every word counts and the slow paces helps to build the tension[…] another brilliant thriller from the master storyteller (Jon Coates)
Short, brisk, emotionally compelling and stylishly written
This is a single-sitting reading experience from a writer who has honed the skills of his craft (Barry Forshaw)
The master of Nordic noir... Blood On Snow and its follow-up Midnight Sun which are touching tales about a hitman and a fixer trying to escape the past. (Charlotte Heathcote)
A wonderful take on the short crime novels of years past, these two are prime examples of how to tell a gripping story in compact form. Among other surprises is the language that’s almost lyrical. Every word counts. (Antti Tuomainen)
This is a book that wants to be too many things, a sequel, a social study, a love story, a redemption tale, a thriller, pulp fiction, and religious commentary, but fails all by not having enough room to maneuver such large topics in less than 224 pages, also most people will buy the book expecting a continuation of the first tale or at least a connection in style and content, but no, apart from one main character and the consequence of knowing him all else could have been a very independent story that probably would have worked better.
This is a melancholic, romantic mess of a story that never quite develops into one thing or another it just rushes full of potential and interesting people into sentimentality and half baked philosophies that are never resolved. It feels truncated, rushed for Christmas. or some other commercial reasoning. it feels full of potential and possibilities wasted for some reason only Jo Nesbo knows.
Why this series has been given female readers when the main characters are males and the story related is related in first person, is a mystery and very distracting.
Kim Gordon is a very good reader but she has a very feminine voice that is not well suited for a killer heterosexual male that is a drug addict, smoker and a heavy drinker, her larynx could not get that low or raspy.
Half as bright as Blood on Snow
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Good story
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I did not realise it was part two of a series until I read other reviews when I'd finished!
But the story worked well enough as a standalone despite the choice of narrator.
She sounded bored and had a monotonous drone.
At first, I thought the main protagonist was female and her American accent led me to believe it was set in a snowy part of USA/Canade
Enjoyed story
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Excellent story
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Initially we were put off by the North American accent of the reader and that she was a woman while the protagonist of the story is a man....
Bear with it is all I can say. The only thing is that this is an American Hollywood ending rather than a European ending. When you get there you'll know what I mean. There are a few twists and turns and you try to second guess the plot but it ends Hollywood style. Not disappointing though.
It's a six hour 'shortie' but nonetheless packs a lot in.
We thought it rather 'Henning Mankell' in style too.
In actual fact it's a bit of a soft Nesbo compared to some of his other novels butbstill grips.
You won't regret listening.
An American ending?
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