Gain Access The Kingdom: A Novel Written And Illustrated By Jo Nesbo In Digital Copy

bad hasbeen It's been so bad that Jo Nesbo published a book and I hated it.
There are a few murders, but the pace is so, so slow that I had a hard time staying awake while reading.
There's too much introspection and internal monologues, the characters talk too much about their feelings and I just didn't care what happened in the end.
Nesbo has made me love plots that normally I wouldn't enjoy, but this one was boring, I've been reading the Harry Hole series for years but this, like his previous 'Macbeth' novel is very disappointing.
It was a struggle to get through, I felt no sympathy or empathy with any of the characters and the ending of the book just sort of petered out.
I'll start by saying i'm a big fan of Jo Nesbo, the Harry Hole series were fantastic and his stand alone novels were great particularly the son.


I was excited for this release, and the synopsis sounded very interestingbrothers, one successful, the other never leaving the family farm and maintaining the same old life.
Then the younger brother returns, with his new wife and past secrets begin to surface and cause problems for the brothers.


I liked the characters, and the emotional aspect of the novel no spoilers is gripping and heartfelt.
But the problem is that the book seems to go on forever, I feel like I've been reading for the past year non stop and still not finished it, I'm sure why this is, whether the character development is to heavy which makes it feel dragged out or what.
Also, the situations the family find themselves in, and how they are dealt with seem a bit far fetched and random.


The editing is poor in some parts as well I know its translated in to English but this hasn't been a problem with Jo Nesbo's books before.
Random words are inserted in sentences, well known sayings are reversed and make no sense,

Overall a good story, but not one of his best, A good idea, but probably overthought in some areas and never really got going for me, Very disappointing. I rarely give up on books, Usually finish them however bad they are, This is that rare time I have stopped onsomething Book landed in a recycling bin to prevent anyone from having disappointment of their lives.
Love Nesbo for Harry Hole Headhunters but this one seems like a bad ghost writing, Avoid! No spoilers.stars. Roy and Carl, the brothers Opgard, live by their father's maxim: Do what has to be done and do it now

Ironically, this was the same maxim that got their father murdered because

at a very young age their father had been raping Carl on the bottom bunk of the bunkbeds that the brothers shared while

older brother Roy was trying to sleep through it on the top bunk as he heard the bed squeaking and Carl crying

Afterward, Roy would slip down to the lower bunk and comfort the sniffling Carl while planning a way to murder their parents

Do what has to be done and do it now

Years later, when the brothers were grown men, they had several occasions to use their father's mantra and their Kingdom became a virtual graveyard

This was the first of Jo Nesbo's novels that I've read and I must say it was excellent! The lastwas a wild, nail biting, and suspenseful ride.
Impressive! This is unlike any other Jo Nesbo novel, The Kingdom is dark, complex and anguished, without a light moment full of obsession, family loyalty, love, abuse, cheating, and, of course, death.
And lots of it.

Two brothers, Roy and Carl, share guilty secrets, one of which has tied Roy to living with gossip and disdain as he lives alone in the family's beaten down home and works in a service station not far from the family land, a kingdom of barren mountain acreage with neither livestock nor crops.
His younger, clever and handsome brother, Carl, conned himself into a scholarship right out of high school and moved to Minnesota, then Toronto andyears pass when Carl suddenly returns home with a bride, Shannon.


Carl comes with a scheme to build a hotel on the family land and, because he has the gift of salesmanship, manages to involve the entire local population in his dream of property development.
And, because Carl is the younger, glib and better education brother, he manages to talk his practical brother into going along with his schemes.


Shannon, for reasons which become clear, encourages Carl in his inflated dreams and

when the past comes calling or plans go wrong, Roy, as always, comes to Carl's rescue.
Roy's guilt is at the center of this book and it is that guilt which compels him to go to any extreme to protect Carl.
When Shannon enters the equation, the balance is upset and the book enters into new territory, upsetting preconceived ideas and splitting Roy's loyalties.


This is a difficult book to review as it is exhausting, demoralizing, bleak and long but so well written and brilliantly conceived that not reading it would be ignoring what is surely the best of Nesbo.
I read it in two consecutive nights and was completely absorbed in the horror of it, A tense and atmospheric standalone thriller about two brothers, one small town, and a lifetime of dark secrets, from bestselling author Jo Nesb

I read The Kingdom and couldnt put it down Suspenseful Original This one is special in every way.
Stephen King

A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER OF THE YEAR

Roy and Carl, brothers from a small mountain town, have spent their whole lives hiding from the darkness in their pastsRoyby staying put and staying quiet, and Carl by running far away.
Roy believed his little brother was gone for good, But Carl has big plans for his hometown, And when he returns with a mysterious new wife and a business opportunity that seems too good to be true, simmering tensions begin to surface and unexplained deaths in the towns past come under new scrutiny.
Soon powerful players set their sights on taking the brothers down by exposing their role in the towns sordid history.
But Roy and Carl are survivors, and no strangers to violence, As the towns long buried past begins to surface, Roy will be forced to choose between his own flesh and blood and a future he had never dared to believe possible.
Having read most of the Harry Hole books, I pre ordered The Kingdom as soon as it was offered.
And rural Norway and it's murders are just as compellingly laid out as Hole's Oslo cases, There is a noir flatness to these murders stretched out over almostyears, that somehow pulls you into the claustrophobic world of two brothers, joined in years of pain and shared secrets.
It is not "Who done it" as much as How and a mild suggestion of Why, We are given only the most rudimentary glimpses into Carl and Roy Opgard's minds but slowly learn what their shared coming of age was like.
Carl is like their mother Roy like his Dad, Carl's good with words and people, Roy is only good with motor cars and Carl, Growing up on an isolated goat farm high up a mountain above the small village of Os, the boys become who they are by the pervasive isolation plus family.
They may live in different locales but at one level they never leave the mountain, Carl went to school in America and achieved a level of financial success, Roy worked in the car repair and gas station in Os and dreamed of owning his own station.
Then, when they are in their late thirties, Carl comes home to Os, And the story flows from there, A satisfying tale of pathology of a family infused with a growing sense of the wrongness of where their lives lead them.
Don't love it as much as Harry Hole stories, but in its own way utterly haunting, I can sympathise with authors who don't want to be defined and remembered for only writing one genre this is presumably the case with Jo Nesbo, who has written the highly successful and engaging Harry Hole books.
He recently departed from his winning formula though to write the utterly ghastly 'Macbeth' and has now inflicted us with 'The Kingdom'.


I didn't enjoy the read and found it a plod, To be fair, the pace picked up a bit in the second half but it could never be confused with a good book.
I think Mr Nesbo should count his blessings and be grateful for his ability to write compulsive page turners such as the Hary Hole series.
I would certainly be pleased is he stopped pressing literary experiments like this on us, Whilst it was an easy read, it was tedious and somewhat predictable, Much prefer the Harry Hole books and the other stand alone books were better, Jo Nesbo is one of the world's bestselling crime writers, with The Leopard, Phantom, Police, The Son and his latest Harry Hole novel, The Thirst, all topping the Sunday Times bestseller charts.
He's an international number one bestseller and his books are published inlanguages, selling overmillion copies around the world.


Before becoming a crime writer, Nesbo played football for Norway's premier league team Molde, but his dream of playing professionally for Spurs was dashed when he tore ligaments in his knee at the age of eighteen.
After three years military service he attended business school and formed the band Di derre 'Them There', They topped the charts in Norway, but Nesbo continued working as a financial analyst, crunching numbers during the day and gigging at night.
When commissioned by a publisher to write a memoir about life on the road with his band, he instead came up with the plot for his first Harry Hole crime novel, The Bat.


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