46 likes, 4 comments - lyndas_bookreviews on October 19, 2025: "📙📙BOOK REVIEW 📙📙 📚📚Orenda Books Tour📚📚 Snowblind (with Fadeout prequel) by Ragnar Jónasson TENTH ANNIVERSARY - Blog Tour Although I read Snowblind a long time ago (2017) I still remembered the story well when I started to read it again. That said I decided to read Fadeout first as this novella is a prequel to Snowblind then reread Snowblind. Written in multiple timelines Fadeout starts just two years before Snowblind, but moves back and forward in time, as do many of this authors novels. Briefly, Fadeout: Ari Thór Arason’s father disappeared when Ari was just 13 and his mother died not long afterwards. As a teen he is studying theology at university and is shocked to receive a credit card bill in his name for £7k spent in London. When he realises the bill is actually in his father’s name he goes to London to try to find the man who deserted him. Snowblind: police officer Ari Thór Arason has his first post to the town of Siglufjörður and his posting to a quiet little town turns out to be anything but that. First a famous author dies in a fall, an accident it seems. Then a woman is attacked and found unconscious in the snow. Whilst it’s not a crime thriller per se Fadeout is a great addition to the series giving an insight into what made Ari the man he is today. The author is a self confessed Agatha Christie fan and you can see the influence in Snowblind, a locked room style mystery with only one way in and out of the town as long as it’s not blocked by snow. And the big reveal is done by bringing all the main characters together. I really enjoyed both books and I do think Fadeout really added to the pleasure of rereading Snowblind. Very entertaining and Happy Anniversary! 💥💥💥See separate post for #giveaway #bookreview #BookTour #snowblind #fadeout #10thanniversary #happyanniversary❤️ #iceland #ragnarjonasson #lyndasbookreviews #orendabooks QOTD have you ever been to Iceland? And if so what was your favourite thing about it? If not is it somewhere you would like to visit and why? My answer, I’ve been there it’s a magical country. I really love it and I want to go back.".