Troll: A Love Story
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781555847371 (1555847374)
Publish date: December 1st 2007
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Urban Fantasy,
European Literature,
Romance,
Speculative Fiction,
Glbt,
Queer,
Gay,
Finnish Literature
This is a very strange book. The book starts as a young photographer rescues a troll, which in the realm of the book really exists. And then things get strange. The love story part of the novel in particular. The love story is between various characters as they all try to get into Angel's pant...
I was very taken with the idea of a fantasy book written by a Finnish author and steeped into Nordic folklore. This story is different from my usual reads (epic/low fantasy) and the worldbuilding is particular, consisting in several explanations, poems or details about trolls and other topics relate...
I'm not even sure where to start reviewing this one. The summary on the book page does the book no justice and fails to capture the feeling of the setting. Compulsively engaging and strangely vulnerable. Certain story elements are not surprising, the pieces clearly laid towards them, but they a...
47. TROLL, BY JOHANNA SINISALORecommended by Tytti, on Goodreads. Unfortunately, I think the translation was very bad... The grammar and spelling were right, but all through the book the choice of words was a bit awkward. Not incorrect, exactly, just really not something that you would see normally....
The use of Finnish troll lore & subtle social commentaries are clever & the overall writing style is elegant imo.
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