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Blackout

Dark Iceland, Book 3

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Blackout

By: Quentin Bates - translator, Ragnar Jónasson
Narrated by: Will Damron, Sarah Mollo-Christensen
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A huge best seller in England, France, and Australia, this is the third book in the Dark Iceland series from a spectacular new crime writer.

On the shores of a tranquil fjord in northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer's night. As the 24-hour light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by an ash cloud from a recent volcanic eruption, a young reporter leaves Reykajvik to investigate on her own, unaware that an innocent person's life hangs in the balance. Ari Thor Arason and his colleagues on the tiny police force in Siglufjordur struggle with an increasingly perplexing case, while their own serious personal problems push them to the limit. What secrets does the dead man harbor, and what is the young reporter hiding? As silent, unspoken horrors from the past threaten them all, and the darkness deepens, it's a race against time to find the killer before someone else dies.

Dark, terrifying, and complex, Blackout is an exceptional, atmospheric thriller from one of Iceland's finest crime writers. A 2016 London Guardian Best Book of the Year in Readers' Picks.

©2018 Ragnar Jonasson (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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This book was entertaining but the structure was cumbersome. The story kept going from head to head, with everyone having dark demons of one kind or another. In general, this wasn't bad, but it was overdone.

There was an entire subplot that didn't seem to have anything to do with the rest of story and added nothing. This subplot used an additional narrator, which didn't add anything either.

Finally, and most importantly, this book was out of order. This is NOT book #3 in the series. Rather, it is book #2 and what Amazon and Audible call book #2 is actually book 4 or 5. I simply can't believe than neither Amazon, Audible, the publisher, the author, nor the narrator have corrected this.

Entertaining but disjointed and out of order

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I really enjoyed this book and the fact that things came together organically with out forced twists and turns to throw me off.

The characters were well developed and more than one secret put together several story points.

Will Dalton is always a fantastic narrator. I enjoyed listening to Sarah for the first time.

Very Good

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the reading is fine. but the story is poor, uninspired. there is little tension and personalities are flat and uninteresting

weak story

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As always, Ragnar Jonasson weaves a fascinating tale while providing insights into Icelandic culture and diving deep into the psychological makeup of each character. I’m on to his next one in the series.

Darkly absorbing

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I have now read books one thru three in this series by Ragnar Jónasson. I’ve enjoyed all three, but they are in the wrong order. This book should be number two and Nightblind third. Events in this book occur before things happening in Nightblind. I waited for it to be some kind of flashback, but there never was. Not great literature, but interesting main character

In wrong order

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Blackout did not have the air of intrigue or the tight dialogue that made me an instant fan of Jonasson. Was this the result of translation? The less than intense narration was also disappointing.

Lost in translation?

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I 'm starting to think that someone has kidnapped Ragnar Jonasson and is writing in his place. The
book has none of the virtues of others that I have read by this author.
This impression my be due to the narration: both narrators sound bored, read in a monotone,
and seem incapable of dramatizing the story.

Execrable narration

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Too many storylines, timelines and narratives. Feeling disjointed and would work better as several separate novels. Very hard to stick with and follow.

In need of some major editing

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This free book is a textbook example of getting less than you pay for. Trite story, stick figure characters, sententious narration.

Les than you pay for

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This is an awful book. I pre-ordered it, and was looking forward to it's release. I have read the previous books in this series, and they were all pretty good. This one is not. The characters get more and more unlikable. The story line is full of absurd coincidences, impossible conclusions, and pointless meandering. I kept reading, hoping it would all come together and get better, but it did not. Several plot lines, none of which were developed enough, or tied together with the others. Shouldn't have wasted the time. Take a pass on this book.

Just Not Good

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