The Shapeshifters

By: Stefan Spjut

Narrated by: Ray Chase

Summer 1978. A young boy disappears without a trace from a summer cabin. His mother claims he was carried away by a giant. He is never found.

Twenty-five years later, another child goes missing. This time there's a lead: a single photograph taken by Susso Myrén. Myrén has devoted her life to the search for trolls, legendary giants known as stallo, who can control human thoughts and assume animal form. Convinced that trolls are real, she follows the trail of missing children to Northern Sweden. But humans, some part stallo themselves, have been watching over the creatures for generations, and this hidden society of protectors won't hesitate to close its deadly ranks.

Mixing folklore and history, suspense and the supernatural, The Shapeshifters is an extraordinary journey into a frozen land where myth bleeds into reality.

©2015 Stefan Spjut (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Not sure what happened

This was a hard book to follow and I’m not sure he wrapped things up in a way that made sense. I’m lost on a lot of what happened and it wasn’t suspenseful or scary. It was fine.

Kind of hard to follow.

I really did enjoy the story. I just feel like it was hard to get through. I had to re-listen often. But the narrator was really good. And the storyline was pretty cool once I was able to follow it.

Slow

Be aware that this book was written about a different land and the names both of the characters and points of interest are hard to keep track of.