Laura's Reviews > Beautiful Wreck

This stunning, sweeping epic of tenth century Iceland immerses readers in a spare, cold, beautiful landscape, while giving from-the-future Ginn plenty of challenges and a hot blaze of adoration for a man everyone fears. Larissa Brown's carefully researched Icelandic community crackles with life and realistic details, and we experience it as outsiders, watching Ginn try to make her way through a complicated society that's based on long-held customs, societal beliefs, and basic needs.

Beautiful Wreck, with its lovely prose and carefully chosen details, is engaging, transportive, and exquisite, the kind of book that makes you hold your breath and keep turning pages. Hard to believe this is a first novel.

Note: I received an advance copy in exchange for a fair review. All opinions are my own.