Natthimmel

by Sofia Nordin

Tilda är plågsamt självmedveten och bor i en familj där alla tiger bakom stängda dörrar. Så blir hon vän med Jesper, glad och utlevande och passionerat förtjust i lajv. Tilda har avfärdat lajvare som emokids som leker sagor i skogen, men genom Jesper inser hon att lajv kan vara precis vad som helst - en familjemiddag, en fest, en medeltida strid.

Genres: Young Adult

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Sofia Nordin (born 1974) is a Swedish author and translator, best known for her children's and young adult books.

Reviews

[Jenny Forsberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sofia Nordin är härmed med på min lista över favoritförfattare! Hon skriver så galet bra och insiktsfullt. Allt det där som jag tänker (eller kanske tänkte när jag var tonåring) hittar hon de rätta orden för. Nu vill jag läsa allt hon har skrivit.

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

Natthimmel is about a fourteen year old girl, Tilda, and her teenage anxiety. It's a nice book but I also found it to be fairly boring. Through most of it she's just building up the courage to meet new people and do new things, specifically getting into LARP with her new friend Jesper. I found most of the LARP storyline to be somewhat uninteresting. First there wasn't enough action and instead a whole lot of sewing, then the actual role-playing wasn't all that exciting to follow.

What I did like about this book was Tilda's relationships; losing a best friend, worrying over how much a new friend actually likes her, and trying to communicate with her little sister after years of being emotionally detached. I actually related to her in that I've also always been cautious, introverted and distant. Although, at her age I was a whole lot more boy crazy. It was nice to see her grow out of her fears and to see people from a different perspective - and that she was able to have a platonic friendship with Jesper.

I suppose it's a nice story for a young introverted teen dealing with adults' expectations. Tilda eventually learns that being herself isn't so scary, that everyone else isn't as confident as they seem, and that being alone is quite alright, and that it's never too late to try to connect with family members holed up in their rooms no matter how awkward it feels. Pleasant, but it didn't really hold my attention and I ended up skimming through.

[Ell Eastwood · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awww, this book was really cute, which I didn't expect. I just couldn't NOT pick up a book about LARPing, even though I haven't been into that for about ten years or more.

But, Tilda is a fourteen year old girl who decides to give LARPing a chance and I was once a thirteen year old girl doing the same, so naturally I could relate to her a lot. Not entirely, even though her self-conciousness still rings a bell with me a 26, I was annoyingly weird when I was into LARPing, looking down on everyone that wasn't and generally showing off my weirdness as much as I could. Whatever, I was 13, it's allowed. And of course, I too, alienated a former best friend with my new hobby. That part was a little too true.

There were some things that were hard to believe. What person who is into LARPing hasn't seen Lord of the Rings??? I know she must've been pretty young when the movies came out (when I was her age the movies were just being released), but come on. I also don't understand how she's able to sew all these cool clothes and afford to buy material for the chain mail and fake swords - I couldn't afford any of those things without my parents help. Maybe I'm nitpicking. I also found it hard to believe she didn't make a single other friend besides Jesper, despite being in a LARPing group with lots of people.

But it was a cute book and I very much enjoyed it. ^^

[Alice · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jag tyckte att det var en av den bästa böckerna jag läst. Den var spännande och fartfylld. Det handlade om en tjej som hette Tilda som halvt förlorat sin vän. Hennes bästis hade flyttat och de hade tappat kontakten. I samma sväng som hon förlorat sin vän fick hon en ny, Jesper, en kille som älskade lajv. De började lajva tillsammans och blev bästisar. Det var med lajvet som hon kunde genomgå sin hetsiga vardag med sin familj. Om du vill veta vad lajv är så får du läsa den. Verkligen bra!!!!

[Jack]

Nejdu! "Det händer nu!" blir jämförelse här (också av Nordin, en bok jag verkligen tyckte om), där tolkade jag "lugnet" i boken som en snygg balans mot ett semi-kontroversiellt ämne, här får jag nog inse att Nordin kanske bara är tråkig? Trovärdig huvudperson med stor inre resa men konstigt dramaturgiskt - det händer ju ingenting! Och dessutom är lajv muppigt. heh.

[Jenny · Rating 4 out of 5]

En cool bok som förklarar för alla ofrälsta hur fantastiskt rollspel är. Absolut läsvärd! Det är nästan så att jag tvingar dig att läsa boken fast jag inte kan. Tiolda är lätt att relatera till och man lider med henne genom hela boken.