#BookReview Det sista experimentet (The Last experiment) by Emma Ångström

Det sista experimentet by Emma Ångström
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

A young woman wakes up locked in a dark and cold room. She does not know where she is. She does not remember how she got there. It feels like she is living buried, as though she walks around in a coffin far below the ground. Someone seems to have plans for her, and the horrible truth is discovered soon.

The summer of 1995 is the hottest summer for decades and fourteen-year-old Dante is going to spend promising in picturesque Sundborn with his eccentric grandfather. There is also Signe who has a penchant for the occult and Dante's charismatic childhood friend Freja.

But the summer idyll is soon broken and a new world opens when Freja draws Dante into a whirlwind of black art and unknown forces.

**********

I'm disappointed! Emma Ångström debut book was great, but this one started off promising, but as the story progressed did I find myself more and more dissatisfied with the way the story took. 

Thankfully did I listen to the audiobook and it was a short book so it didn't take much time (double the speed and the hours flew by)! I spoil the book a bit now, so don't read the rest of the review if you don't want to have an inkling about the ending!

First, nothing really happened for the first half the book and then the last part of the book was really bad. It felt like reading a YA book, and the author throws in a lot of paranormal history since the main characters are teenagers and didn't have so much beforehand knowledge. But, for the reader (for me at least) was the way author had incorporated all this history plain boring to listen to. Perhaps, it would have worked better if I had cared more for the characters. Then, we have the last part, IDIOTS! I mean the last 1/3 of the book made me seriously irritated and I mentally just wanted the kids to sit down and watch the movie flatliners and see how bad it is to wonder what happens after death. IDIOTS!

Also, there is a side story with a kidnapped woman (obviously in present time) and that part was even worst to listen to and the conclusion of that story, the connection this had to the Dante and Freja's story in the past was neither surprising nor especially interesting.