Review of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s « Spirit in the machine »
John Ajvide Lindqvist, after David Lagercrantz, would have written on Stieg Larsson’s millionaire-selling Millennium trilogy about the couple Blomkvist/Salander. But the book he submitted was rejected by the publisher – too funny, reportedly.
« Fortunately, » rightly liked Lotta Olsson in DN about what happened next. For Ajvide Lindqvist became angry, wrote about the script for exciting metafiction and created his own deckuo.
In « Scripture in the water » we met the middle-aged police/cover author Julia Malmros (anger after her Millennium Refuse) and 18 years younger, reluctant noble Kim Ribbing, talented hackers, Salander-like growing up. Together, the two are late with the world’s evil.
The recycling revenge loss And humor gave way energy enough for the entire first book in the suite « Blood Storm » whose third and final part is now here. After the second « The room in the earth » comes the « Spirit in the machine » – water, soil, air and the killing fire of the explosives. Here plus a fifth element, the blood flowing, raising and spraying. Great images for the sensitive.
It starts at Dramaten. In a break in a severely deconstructed « Hamlet » performance, hell is resolved in the marble fuck. A black -clad woman bursts into the air and kills or injures hundreds of theater visitors. The deed seems to have an Islamist foundation, which anger hatred among both ecofascist fanatics and more motorcycle -borne right -wing extremists, and soon a mosque is also blown up.
Intrigge threads cross and crosses each other in a strange way during the course of the investigation. Is it the same perpetrator? Smart readers expect owls in the moss. A mysterious shadow presence controls the police through completely analog paper patches in an old basement mailbox with the cover name Uncle Sven. Is it an AI? But who writes the patches?
It is fun, despite or because of the horrible contexts. A little « too fun » here too, cannot be denied
Julia Malmros struggles In order to participate centrally in the investigation, but is stubbornly stopped by his jealous ex -spouse Jonny Munther in the investigative leadership, who is confident that her lover Kim committed a murder in the last book. Jonny is an idle white, such is the jargon in the diversity -enlarged Spanar collective that has wet morning meetings in the police house’s basement pool. It is fun, despite or because of the horrible contexts. A little « too fun » here too, cannot be denied, as well as that it was possible to iron out all parables and metaphors that Ajvide Lindqvist springs in, as if he did not really trust his complicated (messy?) Intrigation. At least one super -smart computer -generated personality runs their life -threatening game, but are there more? The gaze wanders over the book pages.
It is instead that a personal cartoonist Ajvide Lindqvist engages. His eye for the individual in the group, his sense of each and one’s mangups and worry
Politics, urgent at Stieg Larsson, implied at Lagercrantz, is only stained here. It is instead that a personal cartoonist Ajvide Lindqvist engages. His eye for the individual in the group, his sense of whose and one’s hangups And worry. The triggering asymmetry between Julia and Kim, Moa’s mature look at Jonny’s uncertainty. Julia’s beautiful writer friend Irma. The swirling of at work attraction between Julia and colleague Abu. Extremely effective Carmen, it is constantly about to make the wrong-Christof Adler. The police collective has faces. Closer to relationships of love, friendship, competition, care – everyone has their illuminated moments.
Best portrayed, most often at John Ajvide Lindqvist, is the youngest. Astrid Helander, the survivor after the first book’s archipelago massacre, is the delicate mourning, cruel, lying true and wise heart of history. Ester and Algot, unwavering friends, compete for her. Or are they looking for each other?
