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I really enjoyed this book, and found it engrossing from start to finish. However, it reminded, time and time again, Of Peter Hoeg's 1992 Smilia's Sense of Snow (a book which I love and have read several times). For this reason, I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. I found at least a dozen striking similarities between the two books, some of which I'll briefly itemize here. CAUTION: some of the following may be considered "spoilers": 1) strong, almost superhuman female leads, each with two special skills--Pirio with her trained sense of smell and ability to survive in nearly-freezing water for hours at a time, and Smilia with her knowledge of types of snow and perhaps genius-level mathematical skills. 2) important young, male secondary characters, both with biblical names (Noah and Isiah). Additionally, both boys had alcoholic mothers, and dead fathers who worked on ships for greedy, environmentally-damaging corporations. 3) Both stories are set in cold climates, with the ocean and freighters taking on almost the role of characters in the stories. 4) both lead characters have Near-death encounters with drug-addicted, disaffected young men on the ships they end up on in the last part of the books. 5) both leads had troubled, almost aggressively so, relationships with their fathers; both Pirio's and Smilia's mothers died during their childhoods. 6) both books pivot on cultural clashes featuring indigenous people--white, rich men vs the Innuit in North of Boston; the wealth of Denmark vs post-colonial Greenland in Smilia's Sense of Snow. 7) both lead characters fall in love with men who they (and the reader) don't trust at first.

I will look forward to Elisabeth Elo's next book, hoping it is not as derivative as North of Boston.


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North of Boston A Novel edition by Elisabeth Elo Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews

This author writes wonderfully descriptive passages and makes characters come alive. However the plot was much too long and rambling and the last chapter made no sense at all. If only she manages to control the story line, I'm sure she could easily. Earn five stars.
A fishing trawler is sunk in foggy conditions in the Atlantic offshore from Boston in a collision with a much larger ship,which failed to stop and investigate the mishap. A female member of the crew of two survives the ordeal and in doing so displays endurance and remarkable survival attributes , which attract the interest of the US Navy.
Failure of authorities to identify the large ship involved leads the surviving female into her own investigation and a surprising chain of events which leads to identification of illegal harvesting and destruction of an endangered species. Full of action and an engrossing read
the plot was good, the author has a wonderful ability to use language beautifully in descriptions and sentences that speak life truth say, but the main character was pretty off-putting and full of herself so it made it hard to read sometimes.
With Pirio, Elisabeth Elo has given the reader a terrific protagonist. She is flawed and yet true to her moral compass, an interesting blend of grit and refinement. At the heart of the story are two mysteries what killed her friend, Ned, during their night time fishing run, and how did she, Pirio, survive? Pirio's forward march into the mysteries and the answers held my attention, but it was the humanizing and grounding back stories of her dead mother and dying father and Ned's family - his young son Noah, his baby mama and Pirio's best friend, Thomasina - that made this book such a satisfying read. The scenes that demonstrate the relationship between Pirio and Noah in particular are carefully drawn, never over done, and ultimately very touching. Elo is an assured writer and I can't wait to read more from her.
While this is not the most challenging, complex plot line in my reading history, it is such good writing - the voice is so authentic - that I was immediately pulled into the story. I cared about the main character. Elisabeth Elo can create person and place so real that I felt totally immersed as I read. That's the quality of writing I look for. If that's not there I usually put the book down and it doesn't get a second chance. I read many novels set in countries other than the US - was a bit worried that I couldn't like something that didn't offer the mystery of place that those books do. Happily, a good book is a good book. Hope she comes out with another soon.
The only rather small beef that I have with this story is that the heroine is one of those primarily invented women who pushes everyone away if she feels they actually "care" for her, and refuses to do anything that she can't do for herself....a totally, completely independent woman who trusts no one. But then, the reason for this attitude is the core of the storyline. And, if left at that, it works fairly well. The problem is that the author wanted to introduce an emotionally charged issue into this story. A baby born of the violence visited on this woman. And that becomes contrived and pushes the limits of belief considerably beyond the pale. And, the author further wanted to introduce a "new beginning" for this woman in the form of a rather unrealistic man. Ah well.....it is fiction after all. And, in the broad stroke, I enjoyed it.
I found this an immensely refreshing read that I recommend enthusiastically. Like all the best in the mystery genre, this is, first and foremost, terrific writing about a character whose thoughts and feelings ring absolutely true, and the fact that it's also a good professionally crafted page-turner of a murder mystery is more a lively bonus than the point of the endeavor the most compelling mystery to be solved lies, of course, in the heart and history of the detective--in this case as in so many fine specimens of the genre, a civilian moved to risk her physical safety for a greater good, both inward and outward, that she herself does not entirely comprehend. I highlighted passage after passage of great prose--beautifully crafted, evocative in language and cadence, and bone-deep wise. This is grand good stuff--and I will keep an eye out eagerly for anything and everything more that emerges from Elisabeth Elo's pen.
I really enjoyed this book, and found it engrossing from start to finish. However, it reminded, time and time again, Of Peter Hoeg's 1992 Smilia's Sense of Snow (a book which I love and have read several times). For this reason, I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. I found at least a dozen striking similarities between the two books, some of which I'll briefly itemize here. CAUTION some of the following may be considered "spoilers" 1) strong, almost superhuman female leads, each with two special skills--Pirio with her trained sense of smell and ability to survive in nearly-freezing water for hours at a time, and Smilia with her knowledge of types of snow and perhaps genius-level mathematical skills. 2) important young, male secondary characters, both with biblical names (Noah and Isiah). Additionally, both boys had alcoholic mothers, and dead fathers who worked on ships for greedy, environmentally-damaging corporations. 3) Both stories are set in cold climates, with the ocean and freighters taking on almost the role of characters in the stories. 4) both lead characters have Near-death encounters with drug-addicted, disaffected young men on the ships they end up on in the last part of the books. 5) both leads had troubled, almost aggressively so, relationships with their fathers; both Pirio's and Smilia's mothers died during their childhoods. 6) both books pivot on cultural clashes featuring indigenous people--white, rich men vs the Innuit in North of Boston; the wealth of Denmark vs post-colonial Greenland in Smilia's Sense of Snow. 7) both lead characters fall in love with men who they (and the reader) don't trust at first.

I will look forward to Elisabeth Elo's next book, hoping it is not as derivative as North of Boston.