Jag önskar att min historia inte var sann, men dessvärre är varenda detalj i denna bok obehagligt äkta. Livet som jag kände det togs ifrån mig och min verklighet förvandlades till en mardröm. Inom mig ekade frågorna: Hur håller man hoppet vid liv i en nästintill hopplös situation? Kan man ta sig igenom vad som helst? Och övervinner kärleken allt?
En dag kommer Johannas pojkvän inte hem, och plötsligt står fem civilpoliser utanför deras bostad. Inom loppet av några minuter vänds hennes tillvaro uppochned när hon inser att hon misstänks för ett allvarligt brott. Hon, som nyss lämnat ett glamoröst liv i Dubai för kärlekens skull, faller handlöst ner i mörkret.
Fängslad kärlek är Johanna Sjöbergs berättelse om sitt livs mest traumatiska tid. En historia om stark passion, intensiv kärlek, och om att slitas mellan hopp och förtvivlan
Johanna Sjöbergs boyfriend was arrested in Jönköping for carrying narcotics at the time. Locked Up Love is largely about the relationship between Johanna and her lover, but also about her experiences having been arrested and suspected of helping her boyfriend with acquiring and distributing narcotics found in their basement storage in Stockholm. Johanna describes in detail that she felt held unnecessarily by the Swedish police in hopes that her suffering would motivate her boyfriend to confess or share knowledge regarding the narcotics found and collected. Johanna sat detained for months until Swedish Law Enforcement determined there was no reliable evidence Johanna really did help her boyfriend with the collected narcotics.
The book itself was interesting from a societal, legal and political perspective, but I had a hard time processing the repeated, intimate portrayals of Johannas relationship to her boyfriend. Johannas relationship to her boyfriend felt irrelevant and uninteresting since I personally don't concern myself with other people's romantic involvements with German drugdealers. I've thankfully never dated one and sadly I felt a lot less sympathetic and understanding to their value and appeal given Johannas description of her boyfriend.
Locked Up Love in and of itself is a valuable witnessing contribution to Swedish Law Enforcement, but it was dramatic, catty and boastful about Johannas relationship and life within the exercising and economic sphere. Her portrayal of her boyfriend offered me little to no understanding of Swedish drug trade, how dealers get involved and what they mean for Swedish society and security.