Louise Boije af Gennäs

Oh boy, this is one thrilling book! I really liked the first book in the series, where we got to know Sara, who had just lost her father. She discovered that her father was working on revealing corruption in the Swedish state and his death may.

In this book, she's trying to move on after the death of several close people in her life not to mention discovering that the man she loved was not who she thought he was. The book is very brutal, some pretty horrible things happen and I'm not usually show more squeamish, but even I found some events tough to take in. Sara has to deal with a lot and even though I expected how it all would end in this book did it not diminish the fact that it's a bloody great book.

SKENDÖDA (Suspended Animation) is an engrossing book, even better than the first one and I can't wait to read the last part in the trilogy that will be released next year

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SWEDISH REVIEW

I Blodlokan får vi följa Sara som har flyttat från Örebro till Stockholm efter att hennes pappa har gått bort. I början känns livet mörkt i en lägenhet med en jobbig hyresvärdinna och kaféjobbet är krävande, men ett slumpmöte på kaféet blir starten till ett nytt liv, med ett toppenjobb och en ny lyxig lägenhet. Men det sker besynnerliga saker runtomkring Sara och hon känner sig hotad. Är hon paranoid eller är det någon som är efter henne och i sådana fall show more varför?

Blodlokan är den första delen i trilogi och jag blev som uppslukad av boken och dess spännande handling. Boken börjar med att Sara etablerar sig i Stockholm, och allting verkar frid och fröjd men konstiga händelser sker omkring henne, och efter att ha hittat en massa mappar hemma i hennes pappas arbetsrum börjar hon fundera på vad hennes pappa egentligen höll på med. Snart står det klart att något skumt pågår, eller så är det Sara det är fel på.

Något som jag tyckte var väldigt intressant var alla artiklar som var bifogade i handlingen, verkliga artiklar på skandaler som har tystats ner under årtionden. Samt även artiklar på oklarheter kring mordet på Olof Palmes samt journalisten Cats Falck som försvann och sedan hittade död i en bil i Hammarbykanalen tillsammans med en väninna. Varför har Saras pappa samlat på alla dessa artiklar? Vad är det som pågår?

Blodlokan är en spännande bok och jag ser verkligen fram emot att läsa nästa bok i serien, speciellt då denna bok slutade väldigt överraskande och jag vill veta vad Sara ska göra härnäst.

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ENGLISH REVIEW

Sara moves from Örebro to Stockholm to start a new life after her father dies in a mysterious fire. At first, everything is going too well: the cafe job is changed to a job at the agency and the meager space in the suburb is replaced by a luxury apartment in Östermalm.

But soon strange and unpleasant events start to occur around her, and the threat to Sara and her family feels increasingly obvious. It becomes apparent that someone thinks she has the crucial key to something important but who? And what?

Louise Boije of Gennäs portrays a young woman's struggle against the established power machinery in the Opposition Trilogy. It's a thrilling game with reality and fiction, where nothing is as it seems and where truth can change everything.

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In Blood Hog-weed do we get to follow Sara who has moved Örebro to Stockholm after her father has died. At first, life feels dismal in an apartment with a harsh landlady and the cafe job is demanding, but a random meeting at the cafe will be the start of a new life, with a top job and a new luxury apartment. Strange things are happening around Sara and she feels threatened. Is she paranoid or is someone after her and in that case why?

Blood Hog-weeds is the first book in a trilogy and I was engrossed with the thrilling story. The book begins with Sara establishing herself in Stockholm, and everything seems delightful after she gets the new job, but strange events happen around her, and she begins to wonder what her dad really was doing after finding a lot of folders at home in her father's workroom. Soon it is clear that something is going on, or something is wrong with Sara.

Something that I thought was very interesting was all the articles that were interwoven with the story, actual articles on scandals that have been silenced for decades. As well as articles about uncertainties surrounding the murder of Olof Palmes as well as the journalist Cats Falck who disappeared and then found dead in a car in the Hammarby Canal along with a friend. Why has Sara's dad collected all these articles? What is going on?

Blood Hog-weed is a thrilling book and I'm really looking forward to reading the next book in the series, especially since this book ended very surprisingly and I want to know what Sara will do next.

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Louise Boije af Gennäs skriver för kvinnor, i ju mer jag ser dig handlar om 4 stycken väninor som börjar närma sig 30 års ålder, och upplever alla de tankar, kriser och personutveckling som vi alla kvinnor kommer uppleva på ett eller annat sätt i livet.
Språket är vackert och mycket kvinnligt, det är lätt att flyta med i berättelsen om denna syster vänskap som bara kvinnor är kapabla att uppleva.

This book has been sitting on my shelves for years and years but I finally dug it out last month as Swedish practice. It's the story of Sophie, a successful writer who falls the unexpected person, a radical lefty feminist Kaja, leading to a re-assessment of her life so far and her marriage. It doesn't come easy, but she takes the steps to live her life to the full, even if she doesn't know what's in the future or if her relationship with Kaja will actually last.