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The Thirst A Harry Hole Novel Harry Hole Series eBook Jo Nesbo Neil Smith

When Nesbo stopped writing his Harry Hole novels, it felt like he'd gotten tired of his favorite character (similar to how Stephen King got to feel about Roland Deschain, aka The Gunslinger). I read all the previous Hole novels and loved each and every one: the Hole character wasn't an untouchable badsss like Jack Reacher, someone whose self-awareness extended no further than the next down-and-out greasy spoon; his flaws didn't detract from him, they defined him. But more than all that, the stories themselves were good; they were complex and had great villains and side characters.
That all ended with The Thirst. This latest Hole novel feel like Nesbo has lost touch with his muse; he writes Hole like someone trying to recreate an intense summer romance that ended badly. There were flashes of the old Harry Hole but not enough to carry the story. You could almost feel Nesbo putting Hole out to pasture, much the same way Louise Penny has done with Inspector Gamache, or Tony Hillerman did with Joe Leaphorn. That would've been okay -- putting Hole out to pasture and bringing in new blood -- if that was the intended direction of the novel but it felt almost accidental, as if Nesbo realized he'd lost the connection he had with Hole and was doing his best to finish the story before he completely lost the thread.
Finally, and this is more of a personal preference than a complaint, I really had a hard time reading this in British english. For all the American pop culture Nesbo quotes in his novels, and for the millions more Americans who read his novels (versus British readers), couldn't the publishers have found an American to do the English translation?
All in all, I finished the book because I like the Harry Hole character. This however, felt like when Ben Affleck tells Matt Damon (in Good Will Hunting) that he's sick of him pretending to be someone he's not. Perhaps Nesbo needed this novel to reacquaint himself with the dark, macabre character that is Harry Hole, and he'll be back to his old self in the next novel. Lord knows, it's gotta be hard to keep such a character going and I wouldn't fault Nesbo one bit if he called it quits (like I thought he already had, three years ago) but if he's gonna put Harry Hole back into action, he needs to go all-in.


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The Thirst A Harry Hole Novel Harry Hole Series eBook Jo Nesbo Neil Smith Reviews

"The Thirst" isn't as good as Nesbo's previous novels. It contains too much filler and drags in places, as if Nesbo had little idea of where he was going with it when he wrote it. The plot is contrived, and many of the characters are not well delineated. This is okay if the reader is already familiar with the main characters from having read the earlier Harry Hole books, but not so good otherwise.

Further, one is expected to believe that Norway, with its comparatively low crime rate, is awash in vampirists and their various deranged associates, all collaborating to kill people. The ending, while holding my interest, was slightly annoying in that it's a blatant hook for the next novel in this series. Maybe Nesbo is running out of material for Harry Hole, but I'd just as soon not read any more about human blood drinkers.
I started this series with the Snowman and never looked back, though reading the preceding books was the best thing I could have done. Nesbo does something with every iteration that I don't think other authors quite manage,and that's to keep a fan who knows his style left feeling totally satisfied but never having had enough. His stories and characters are seemingly perfect and The Thirst is no exception. For the first time reading a Harry Hole novel I can say I actually "Called it"... which at first felt like a bit of a letdown, but as the story concludes it actually made me feel closer to the author (and perhaps made me feel like I'm not quite as trusting as I used to be). Another reviewer mentioned Harry has changed and doesn't feel quite like the same character as he's always been, and while that's not wrong, I got the feeling that it's the exact type of growth fitting of someone who has lived the life of this man. I adored this book, and anyone who has read at least one of this series will too.

DO NOT start the series with this book. Devil's Star or Snowman should be your first if you're not willing to start at the beginning.
This has to be the best Harry Hole novel yet. Nesbo does such a great job keeping you in suspense, while you try to figure out, "who's really behind all the killings". Like the proverbial onion skin being peeled away, you come away, realizing, that "you didn't see that one coming"! I lost count as to the amount of twists Nesbo put us and Harry through. The pages flew by, especially as the story was coming to an end, and yet another turn (you almost had to take a break to have your mind catch-up to the new possibilities).

While I get the "need" for Harry to crave "the drink", I'm happy that the theme doesn't dominate the story line as it had in the past, after all there's more to Harry's flaws that define who he is; which makes it ironic that Harry ends up owning a bar. Nonetheless, Harry's a great detective, and Nesbo is a great storyteller.
This was an entertaining variation on a police procedural, with legendary Oslo detective Harry Hole coming out of retirement to hunt down a gruesome serial killer and nemesis. Given the title, it comes as no surprise that the murderer drinks his victims’ blood. The villain is labelled a “vampirist,” the distinction being that the killer only mimics the behavior of vampires which are figures of myth or fantasy. I enjoyed the novel despite the vampire thing and the story being packed with genre clichés and an overly drawn-out ending that is sometimes just absurd. The final fourth of the book is largely devoted to tying up “loose ends” most of which this reader never cared much about in the first place. Most thriller movies in the last decade have suffered from overly extended endings filled with plot twists, designed to give the audience their money’s worth. Now, good novelists like Nesbo must feel pressure to construct their stories with this in mind. Viewers and readers should start voicing their fatigue with these endless conclusions and make this trend stop..
When Nesbo stopped writing his Harry Hole novels, it felt like he'd gotten tired of his favorite character (similar to how Stephen King got to feel about Roland Deschain, aka The Gunslinger). I read all the previous Hole novels and loved each and every one the Hole character wasn't an untouchable badsss like Jack Reacher, someone whose self-awareness extended no further than the next down-and-out greasy spoon; his flaws didn't detract from him, they defined him. But more than all that, the stories themselves were good; they were complex and had great villains and side characters.
That all ended with The Thirst. This latest Hole novel feel like Nesbo has lost touch with his muse; he writes Hole like someone trying to recreate an intense summer romance that ended badly. There were flashes of the old Harry Hole but not enough to carry the story. You could almost feel Nesbo putting Hole out to pasture, much the same way Louise Penny has done with Inspector Gamache, or Tony Hillerman did with Joe Leaphorn. That would've been okay -- putting Hole out to pasture and bringing in new blood -- if that was the intended direction of the novel but it felt almost accidental, as if Nesbo realized he'd lost the connection he had with Hole and was doing his best to finish the story before he completely lost the thread.
Finally, and this is more of a personal preference than a complaint, I really had a hard time reading this in British english. For all the American pop culture Nesbo quotes in his novels, and for the millions more Americans who read his novels (versus British readers), couldn't the publishers have found an American to do the English translation?
All in all, I finished the book because I like the Harry Hole character. This however, felt like when Ben Affleck tells Matt Damon (in Good Will Hunting) that he's sick of him pretending to be someone he's not. Perhaps Nesbo needed this novel to reacquaint himself with the dark, macabre character that is Harry Hole, and he'll be back to his old self in the next novel. Lord knows, it's gotta be hard to keep such a character going and I wouldn't fault Nesbo one bit if he called it quits (like I thought he already had, three years ago) but if he's gonna put Harry Hole back into action, he needs to go all-in.