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Reviews

My Soul to Take by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

By Patrick W. Gallagher

The get-on-with-it pace of this story makes the reader feel like a pallbearer at the novel’s own funeral. [10 June 2009]

Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

By Frank Wilson

In contrast with, say, The Da Vinci Code's continuous allegro vivace, with every chapter a cliffhanger, Last Rituals proceeds at just the right tempo: moderato. [6 December 2007]