Review: Underage Lesbian Torture Victims
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 23, 2014
I felt uncomfortable reading this book. There's something disturbing about a book that describes in great detail the torture and murder of fourteen-year old girls. I prefer my serial killer victims to at least have reached the age of consent.*spoilers*In fact this is two separate books mixed together. In one, written in the third person, an implausibly rich and handsome homosexual serial killer kidnaps and tortures two fourteen-year old girls, one of whom is of course a princess. In-between being tortured in graphic detail the girls have lesbian fantasies about each other.In the other book, a female journalist gets involved in the case of two missing girls, while at the same time having complicated emotional and sexual relationships with her current lover and ex-husband. This second book is written in the first person. US readers will find it disconcerting to constantly switch from the third person to the first person, but maybe that's OK in Denmark.When I was fourteen, I'm pretty sure the girls I knew did not have lesbian torture/murder fantasies or ever read books like this. Again, maybe they do things differently in Denmark as this is clearly a book intended for young girls.There are a number of technical issues. One of the early sequences of dialog doesn't make any sense until you realize the attributions are mixed up - the wrong person is speaking. Font sizes jump up and down. Some of the English is stilted and sentences occasionally have an odd construction, presumably an issue introduced by the translation from the original Danish. Some paragraphs repeat what was said in the previous one, as though the book was pasted together from different versions. Horde is mis-spelt as hoard. Duct tape becomes duck-tape.