![]() Even if in a different world than yours and mine, never the less it is fully present in the today that we know, as it is in the reality the demons around Engelsfors want to take over. The sequel to the success novel The Circle is if anything more direct and easier to turn the pages in. ![]() “To get swept away from the first page, wanting to continue without interruption, to make the teen thoughts so universally human and alive, to make me swallow demons and witches in an average boring, average Swedish, average size small town, requires fluency in the language, thought and personal portraits. In Fire they continue to bind the dazzling magic and the gray everyday life, triumph and tragedy, in an alchemical formula that creates high-karat gold.” Elfgren are not unique to weave the genre literature together with the Swedish realistic tradition, but they are among the absolute most compelling and talented in doing it. ![]() I have kept the spirit of excitement, shouting straight into the air: ‘Oh, damn good!’ I cannot remember that ever happening before! “I have empathized with the action, I have been up all night, unable to break free from the reading and I’ve laughed out loud and I was moved to tears. ![]() Elfgren and Mats Strandberg pitch a tale with perfectly interwoven plot lines that offer heaps of choices how this trilogy might end …” ” Fire is in no way inferior to The Circle. ![]()
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