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Harbor

By: John Ajvide Lindqvist
Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
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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.

©2008 John Ajvide Lindqvist and ©2010 Marlaine Delargy (Translation) (P)2011 Macmillan Audio

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 )

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Was so disappointed.

Loved the story by the author"let me in" so I thought this would be great, but it dragged on and on and didn't make sense. Got no real idea even in the end of the reason for everything. Just stupid. Hated it. Thought it would get better but it didn't. Sorry I wasted so much time on it.

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Absolutely no story in this book. 7

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I tried three times to start this book. It's reviews were OK and I thought I was just missing something. It starts really good. Then it gets bogged down in something, I don't know what because the story could not hold my interest. I forced myself to listen to the first download this time and again - I can't even begin to tell you what the story is about.

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Pointless

I only kept listening because the narrator was good. The story is silly. Please don't waste your time or money on this one as I did.

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Incredibly slow and underwhelming...

Don't read this book unless you want a very, very slow story that goes into grueling and unnecessary detail about characters and their actions. The big secret of the island and the end are both obvious and a total letdown. 19 hours of wasted time. The narrator jumps back and forth in time and justifies it as somehow necessary to the plot, but it isn't. It's just boring.

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