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A review by poachedeggs
The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith
3.0
Griffith is great at communicating a sense of place - whether it's the fjords of Norway or the humidity of Atlanta she is describing. This read easily, with a flow to the violence that is hypnotically poetic.
I felt that the plot was a little messy though - bits and pieces of this and that were woven into Aud's narrative as she hurtled from escorting a shy Spaniard daughter-of-a-Minister to advertising agencies to her nightmares to flying over the Atlantic with her new-found mate. The mystery was not too compelling, and nor was Aud herself, unfortunately. The surface of this story is sleek, shiny, and I can't quite see beneath it.
I felt that the plot was a little messy though - bits and pieces of this and that were woven into Aud's narrative as she hurtled from escorting a shy Spaniard daughter-of-a-Minister to advertising agencies to her nightmares to flying over the Atlantic with her new-found mate. The mystery was not too compelling, and nor was Aud herself, unfortunately. The surface of this story is sleek, shiny, and I can't quite see beneath it.