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Book Review of Troll: A Love Story

Troll: A Love Story
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Helpful Score: 2


Troll: A Love Story was a very strange tale indeed. It is the story of a gay Finnish photographer who finds a live, baby troll that is sick & being harassed by teenagers. In the universe of this novel, trolls are real creatures & only recently confirmed by scientists within the last century.

Angel, the man who finds the troll, takes it into his home rather than turning it over to authorities or animal control, & nurses it back to health. As the troll becomes healthier, strange things begin happening in Angel's life as he becomes obsessed with the troll.

I won't give away more of the story line in this review. I will say that this novel takes the reader into a world that flirts with what it means to be an intelligent creature & what might happen when creatures of two intelligent species live with one another.

It was a very good book & I read it within two days. It was very hard to put down. I recommend it.