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I'm not sure why, but I went into this one expecting a kind of twisted/playful dark comedy. That's not at all what this book is -- in fact there is pretty much no humor at all. In addition there were a number of other annoyances:

- the erratic and often pointless jumps in POV
- the fictional history/folklore, which started out interesting but eventually seemed like the author was just trying to pad the page count
- the seemingly blatant connections being made between homosexuality, bestiality, and pedophilia
- much of the writing was kind of generally wooden, although this might be the fault of the translator.
- the ending was a bit bizarre, not in a good way. What we learned about the troll throughout the novel just didn't really support what happened.

Despite this laundry list, in the end I don't think I disliked it quite enough to give it only one star. It moved at a brisk pace, which is an especially good quality in a book when you're not enjoying it.