The Night of the Scourge

MASTERFUL MYTTING! What a finale to Mytting’s great epos: The dramatic The Night of the Scourge is a literary triumph.

The Night of the Scourge is first and foremost a great, rich novel. It is like a well that never runs dry. It did not take long before the novel read like a movie. Mytting writes in a way that conjures vivid images, and I would not be surprised if this story is adapted for the screen. […] Nevertheless, this is one of this autumn’s best books. Mytting at his best.

The third installment of the Sister Bells Trilogy, The Night of the Scourge , fulfills what The Bell in the Lake and The Reindeer Hunters promised. Here are no great surprises or unexpected twists, only more of what so many have enjoyed in this series: A mythical fairy tale at the core. Splendind descriptions. An interesting main character. An abundance of other characters. Local anchoring, both linguistical and geographical. Bonds between countries. Insight into nature, history, people. All in all, a solidly crafted novel.

GRAND FINALE. Lars Mytting leaves no loose ends in his outstanding grand tale of weaving, church bells and memory. The wait is over. The last instalment of Lars Mytting’s Sister Bells Trilogy is now in bookstores. Should you read it? I’m not in doubt. If you appreciate well-written novels with intense suspense and dialogues that ring with a proverb-like truth – and with a wealth of historical and technological knowledge that is sure to teach you something you didn’t already know, the answer is, without reservation: Yes.

The story about the Butangen pastor and his life’s final struggle stirs all senses. In the conclusion of the Hekne trilogy lies a tremendous will to restore justice and goodness after Satan has swept through the village and the country and the world – and done his foul-smelling business. It begins and ends so beautifully with the two conjoined sisters who, seated by the loom, warned against what they saw coming. Everything is woven together and absolutely everything gets its just end in Mytting's trilogy – and also its new tentative beginning.