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Title: Harbor
Author: John Ajvide Lindqvist
Narrator: Julian Rhind-Tutt
Format: Unabridged
Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-14-11
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 170 votes
Genres: Fiction, Horror
Publisher's Summary:
From the author of the international and New York Times best seller Let the Right One In (Let Me In) comes this stunning and terrifying book which begins when a man's six-year-old daughter vanishes.
One ordinary winter afternoon on a snowy island, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter, Maja, across the ice to visit the lighthouse in the middle of the frozen channel. While the couple explore the lighthouse, Maja disappears - either into thin air or under thin ice - leaving not even a footprint in the snow. Two years later, alone and more or less permanently drunk, Anders returns to the island to regroup. He slowly realizes that people are not telling him all they know; even his own mother, it seems, is keeping secrets. What is happening in Domaro, and what power does the sea have over the town's inhabitants?
As he did with Let the Right One In and Handling the Undead, John Ajvide Lindqvist serves up a blockbuster cocktail of suspense in a narrative that barely pauses for breath.
Critic Reviews:
John Ajvide Lindqvist is rightly seen as one of the most exciting writers working in the horror genre at the moment - a rival, indeed, to Stephen King. (
TheScotsman.com )
Members Reviews:
Delightfully Creepy
This is a delightfully creepy Scandanavian tale. But unlike many of the other Scandanavian writers who write thrillers or mysteries, John Ajvide Lindqvist writes supernatural stories.
Harbour starts out with a family going for a little mid-winter picnic to the lighthouse, and the 8 year old daughter disappears into thin air. Several years later, her parents have divorced, and her father (who has hit rock bottom and spends his time drinking and despairing) returns to the island where they formerly lived and were happy.
But the island has its secrets, and the residents want to keep things that way. The book is suffused with magic and bits of creepiness. The ending is a little overblown, but the journey along the way is perfectly delicious.
The narration is well done, and the writing is very solid. This is a great escapist read. It's a little less bleak than Let Me In, but is equally well done. This is definitely credit-worthy.
Really loved this book!
Lindqvist's prose is wonderful and his storytelling is meticulous -- it unfolds so gradually that one may not notice a turn in the story until it's well underway. What a crafty writer! Great book!
difficult to follow
What would have made Harbor better?
this is not a book to listen to if you have to divide your attention. The author jumps back a fourth between past tense and present. It was difficult for me to keep track when I was doing something as simple as driving. I never, EVER just sit and listen to a book so I had to keep rewinding to figure out what was going on!!
What other book might you compare Harbor to and why?
I wouldn't
Have you listened to any of Julian Rhind-Tutts other performances before? How does this one compare?
This is the first performance of Julian Rhind-Tutt I have heard
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Harbor?
I would make the time jumps more easy to follow
Great Writing Lame Story
Where does Harbor rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?
Low middle
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
Make the lines between magical realism and the real clearer.
