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Louise (64 KP) rated The Farm in Books

Jul 2, 2018

The Farm

Tom Rob Smith | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

7.0

(3 Ratings)

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I loved the crap out of this book, it was so compelling and had me gripped the whole way through, this was a first for me on this author, I like to read new authors all the time, I like experiencing different writing and imaginations. The premise of this book intrigued me, as to who Daniel would believe when both parents are against one another.

The pace of this book is quite slow but it slowly drips feeds you information as to what has happened to his parents on the Farm in Sweden that you cannot stop reading.

Daniel currently lives in London with his partner Mark, when he gets an unexpected call from his father stating that his mother is not well and has fled from a psychiatric ward. His parents had not long moved to Sweden to retire to his mothers homeland.

Daniel who is an only child decides he needs to go to Sweden after putting it off for several months, however when he gets to the airport, he receives a call from his mother stating that she is flying over to the UK now to meet him so she can tell him her side of the story events that has been happening over the past 6 months.

Two thirds of the book are told by Tilde (Daniel’s mother), she has a satchel with evidence and a diary which she reads from, she is very specific with what happens and adamant that things must be told in chronological order so people do not misinterpret her findings as madness.

Daniel is a very naive character thinking his parents, never argued, had a great life, owning their own garden centre and several flats around London, when actually that was the complete opposite, he didn’t want to tell his parents he was homosexual as he thought they would think they had failed in his upbringing and disappoint them. Daniel seemed to have had a very sheltered life from his parents, he had never experienced them arguing, had a good education but in the end had a job as a gardener/landscape designer thingymajig which wasn’t really going anywhere and a high-profile boyfriend which he relied on for more than just companionship.

The thing that had me thinking was what if this was my parents? who would I believe? When one is saying the other is crazy and the other believes a murder has taken place and that the father is involved. I think this is why it was so gripping, you had to continue to find out the truth and I was not let down by this.

This was just a book that I picked up as the synopsis intrigued me, I didn’t expect to love it so much. The good thing about this book is that it is a thriller without the gore and blood.

I would definitely recommend this book.

I rated this 4 out of 5 stars.

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Whatchareadin (174 KP) rated The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in Books

May 10, 2018

This book started off really slow for me. I felt as though this was going to be a page turner from what I had heard from other people but that was not the case for me. I'm the kind of girl who likes to dive right into a book and get to the juicy stuff. This book did not do that for me. I'm not sure if it was because I had to decipher most of the names in the book, or if it was just that slow. The two main characters of the book are Lisbeth Salander and Mikeal Blomkvist. They end up working together to solve the disappearance of a one Harriet Vanger. This quest sends them all over the country of Sweden and to lands beyond. What they discover on the way is incredible. I just wish that some of this had come up closer to the beginning of the book, instead of at the last few chapters.