I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Ghostly revenge in the Western Fjords
of Iceland makes for a shiver inducing read!
Three people are dropped off by boat
in the early winter at a remote town in the Western Fjords to renovate a summer
home. There is no electric, or running
water. No neighbors for miles in any
direction. Why do they keep hearing
footsteps? And seeing the figure of a
boy in the distance? Are they really
alone?
At a preschool a vandal breaks in
and causes havoc. The vandalism is very
similar to an incident sixty years before, eerily similar. And classmates who attended the school sixty
years ago, who were in a photograph that was purposefully damaged, are dying in
strange ways that seem to be connected.
And may be connected to the events taking place at that remote summer
house in the Western Fjords.
I will be returning to Iceland and I
am quite glad that I did not include a trip to the Western Fjords in my itinerary. This was a wonderful ghost story with a
cinematic ending. If you find yourself
feeling too warm this summer, read this book.
The descriptions of a winter storm in a location without electric or plumbing,
and also haunted, will cool you right down!
