BOOK REVIEW: GULLBURET BY CAMILLA LÄCKBERG

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Title: Gullburet
Author: Camilla Läckberg, Kari Bolstad (translator)
Published: 2019
Language: Norwegian (translated from Swedish)
Pages: 372
Rating: 3/5

Summary:
The scorned wife, a woman who seems to have it all, starts to plan a horrible revenge on her controlling billionaire husband who she's sacrificed her whole life for.

Review:
I totally flew through this book and quite enjoyed it, although in retrospect there are some things about this book that were maybe not as great and it makes me a little confused as to what to think of this.

We see the story from the perspective of the main character, who starts off as the repressed wife begging to be loved by her husband, and we see her transform throughout the book, which was really fascinating to get to see. We also get chapters where we get glimpses into her past, which are pretty dark but really interesting (although I wished we had got more of those chapters, as the glimpses were maybe too scarce). I think overall she's a very complicated character and there's always something interesting about that.

I quite liked the setting of this, I liked the themes the book explores and there is something really compelling about a scorned wife taking revenge. I also really like that there's a really strong female friendship in here, I really loved that.

Now, I quite like reading books about unlikeable characters and I don't want to give anything away, but there were some bits in here where the main character would do something really horrible and it just kind of wasn't even addressed. I sometimes found the way she acted contradictory and confusing, which is the way some people are, sure, but it didn't really feel very realistic. She just kind of gets away with everything and no one seems to really question her, which is odd to me.

There's also a plot twist in the very last sentence of the book and although that was kind of a cool twist, I felt like it came out of nowhere and there was no buildup or explanation for it, so I don't quite know what was the point of it.

Overall though, I did enjoy this and I think it's worth the read if you like suspense and crime novels.

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