Historical fiction is a genre I read little of, though I have yet to be let down by it. This one, in all honesty, drew me to it for rather shallow reasons. When I heard that this book was optioned for film and Jennifer Lawrence will be playing Agnes (yet another book to movie that I've read of which she's in and will later release - the other being 'The Glass Castle') I was immediately hooked. Not only do I (for the most part) enjoy reading a book before seeing the film adaptation, but I'm also a rather big fan of Jennifer's body of work thus far. 
 Honestly, I read that she was playing a murderer and I wanted to read it. I didn't know what I was getting myself into. I didn't know it was historical fiction or that the story is inspired by a true story that took place in the 1820s set in northern Iceland. But what I did end up reading I rather enjoyed. It isn't a thriller. It's truth hidden in fiction (though, really, that's all fiction) and the thing about truth is that bitter truth is more haunting than any piece of fictional horror writing. It's no wonder the story remained with Hannah Kent, after she first heard of it on a visit to Iceland. It's haunting and the more haunting thing, is this kind of stuff still happens but the way she accounts it all is done with such care for each individual and moment in time. I surely look forward to the adaptation.