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Locked Up Love
"I wish that my story wasn’t true, but unfortunately every detail in this book is painfully real. Life as I knew it was taken away from me and my reality was turned into a nightmare. Inside of me the questions How do you keep hope alive in an almost hopeless situation? Can you get through anything? And does love conquer all?"
One day, Johanna’s boyfriend doesn’t come home. Suddenly five undercover cops are standing outside their residence. In a matter of minutes, her life is turned upside-down when she realises that she’s a suspect of a serious crime. She, who had just left a glamorous life in Dubai for the sake of love, falls helplessly into the dark.
Locked Up Love is Johanna Sjöberg’s history about the most traumatic time of her life. A story about strong passion, intense love, and about being torn between hope and despair.
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Johanna Sjöberg (born 1991) was raised in Gothenburg, Sweden. The past years she has been living in Stockholm, where she works as a media salesperson. "Locked Up Love" is her autobiographical novel debut.
One day, Johanna’s boyfriend doesn’t come home. Suddenly five undercover cops are standing outside their residence. In a matter of minutes, her life is turned upside-down when she realises that she’s a suspect of a serious crime. She, who had just left a glamorous life in Dubai for the sake of love, falls helplessly into the dark.
Locked Up Love is Johanna Sjöberg’s history about the most traumatic time of her life. A story about strong passion, intense love, and about being torn between hope and despair.
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Johanna Sjöberg (born 1991) was raised in Gothenburg, Sweden. The past years she has been living in Stockholm, where she works as a media salesperson. "Locked Up Love" is her autobiographical novel debut.
261 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2022
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January 15, 2023
Upprepande ”tyck-synd-om-mig”-bok som skulle kunna varit 1/6 lång & då vara en intressant historia, nu var den bara tjatig och långdragen…
August 6, 2022
Lite enformig men lättlyssnad och intressant historia.
November 20, 2025
Nej, men nej! Så naiv! Och varför kallar hon konstant sin pojkvän för sin man? Och att kalla hans grova brott för ett snedsteg 🤯
March 17, 2023
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.
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.
October 24, 2022
Intressant till en början, men blev snabbt tjatig och det kändes som att vartannat ord var ”gråter” eller ”tårar”
March 30, 2023
2.5/3 don't think I was in the mood for this ....
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