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    The Undesired: A Thriller
    The Undesired: A Thriller
    The Undesired: A Thriller
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Undesired: A Thriller

    Written by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

    Narrated by Karen Cass and Nick Underwood

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Aldis hates her job working in a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland. The boys are difficult, the owners are unpleasant, and there are mysterious noises at night. And then two of the boys go astray . . .

    Decades later, single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the center. The more he finds out, though, the more it seems the odd events of the 1970s are linked to the accident that killed his ex-wife. Was her death something more sinister?

    Yrsa Sigurdardottir is a huge European bestseller both with her crime and horror novels. You might want to sleep with the light on after reading The Undesired. . .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9781427294425
    The Undesired: A Thriller
    Author

    Yrsa Sigurdardottir

    Yrsa SigurdardÓttir is an award-winning author of five children's novels and a division manager with one of Iceland's largest engineering firms. She lives with her family in Reykjavík, Iceland.

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      It’s a murder mystery or several murder mysteries all tangled together and, of course, all is revealed in the end. A good plot overall but I found I didn’t care about the characters, didn’t really understand their motivations or who they were. So it all felt a bit flat for me and not entirely engaging. The landscape and place are well described- but it’s pretty joyless. Every character and every scene seems grim and antagonist. I can appreciate the story construction but I really need to feel the characters to love a book.