In I Remember You there is too much left unexplained. What seems totally random and unconnected at first is brought together in the end, giving the reader an ‘aha’ moment. ![]() What I’ve always liked about Yrsa’s writing is that she leaves no loose threads. So far, the ghostly aspects of Yrsa’s stories have gradually faded out and once all the cards are on the table, the reader can choose to believe that the however far-fetched the events may have been, they were, after all, of this world. ![]() What I did miss, though, was a down-to-earth approach to the storyline, a counterbalance to the supernatural that drives it and explodes towards the end. I’ve always found her a rather dull character and the description of her family life an unnecessary diversion from the actual plot. Half-way through I noticed what I wasn’t missing: the lawyer Þóra who has solved the crimes in Yrsa’s past suspense stories. After the police consult him on vandalism at a local kindergarten, he discovers connections with incidents that took place in the town decades earlier and his own personal tragedy. Psychiatrist Freyr has escaped his life in Reykjavík to work in Ísafjörður in the West Fjords, trying to leave behind haunting memories of a son who mysteriously disappeared and a mentally-disturbed ex-wife. Soon, strange and frightening things start to happen and due to bad weather and inability to communicate with the outside world, they cannot leave. ![]() Young couple Katrín and Garðar take their recently-widowed friend Líf to the abandoned village Hesteyri where they intend to renovate a house they bought as a hotel. The nightmarish thriller I Remember You (originally published as Ég man þig in 2010) by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is in fact two stories that both take place in the dead of winter in the remote West Fjords and become intertwined.
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