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The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith

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njlbo1's review

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rmphyllis's review

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mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

0.5

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maggies's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Another 4-star Cormoran Strike mystery for me! As usual, the mystery is a thickly woven web, incorporating pretty grotesque crimes. Definitely a page-turner.

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sauvageloup's review

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

firstly Rowling has shit political views. we all know this. I do feel bad reading this but I got it from the library and shes getting no profit from me. unfortunately shes a good writer.

pros:
- very gripping, couldn't put down
- characters were interesting and complex overall
- did a convincing job of showing online spaces

cons:
- the sheer pettiness underlying lots of her comments is a lot. the whole plotline is narcissistic. I get the point shes trying to make (toxic online spaces driving innocent creators to misery. bad ppl hiding building up gullible fans with claims of creator's being homophobic/racist/ableist, etc. ppl being blinded by this that they miss true predators, sexists and racists) but it misses all the joy of online friends, and generally reads like shes bitter about the criticism.
- she also misses the very real need for criticism. she mocks "SJWs" but her own views could be called that by some alt right. she's determined to see that fans are acting as a mob with no critical thinking skills, where I think shes blinded by confirmation bias and her ego and lacks the ability to be compassionate and tolerant. anyway. her views are made very clear in the book and it feels petty.
- underwhelming ending, not helped by me thinking for some reason that this one the last one. was disappointed.
- its dragged too long now. think this should've been last one for sure.

overall, disappointing and frustrating, because it was good up until a sour end, much like her.

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knightscottage's review against another edition

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slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

I love JKR. This is hard😥

Firstly, This book was full of spelling errors. It has to be the worst amount of errors I've ever seen. At one point two characters names had been switched in two sentences!!!

It's full of the foul language. Out of character foul language.
It's 500 pages too long, easily. In all previous books in this series I barely noticed the length of the book, well maybe the last one a little. This time I
found it painfully slow, tedious and boring. JKR needs a new editor. And proofreader.

I have no interest in online gaming or social media sites and struggled to comprehend a lot of the endless reams of 'tech speak'

I didn't like any of the characters introduced this time. None were at all likeable including Strike! I didn't care about them or what happened to them.

Who was the target audience? Teenagers?

Too many characters. I kept getting them mixed up.
No main character development since previous book. It's stagnated.
Too many unbelievable red herrings.

Why can't JKR just let Robin and Strike be friends and business partners?
This stupid will they/won't they get together is childish and annoying- Especially as it's now drawn out over six books!

I find it off putting the constant references to Strikes amputated leg. We get it, he's an amputee. No need to go on and on ad nauseam about it.

After reading through over 1000 pages the ending was wrapped up in 7 PAGES!!!

It reads as a fan fiction, mid series filler book to me. Did JKR really write this mess of a book?

I'm so disappointed. I was really attached to this series and looked forward to each new book. I can only give 1 star. Cannot recommend at all. Very sad 😔

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jhbandcats's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I love the Cormoran Strike series. Rowling (aka, Galbraith) is an accomplished storyteller who can handle multiple characters and a complex storyline. Here she shows a facility with online gaming that, to me as a non-gamer, is mind-boggling. While I really respect her talent, I found the story so complex that I need to go back and reread this to see what I missed. Definitely recommend the entire series starting with The Cuckoo’s Calling.

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romonko's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

Perhaps it is my age, or perhaps it's my total indifference to social media and all its iterations like Twitter, TikTok, Reddit, instagram, but I truly did not get really into this book like I usually do with this series. The mystery was a good one, and it finally did get really exciting at the end. And that is another of the things that caused me to shake my head - the sheer length of the book! 1,300 odd pages is a lot of book! The writing is superb as well, but I did find some of the dialogues and transcripts of Twitter feeds and internet chats far too graphic for my tastes. I was extremely uncomfortable through about 30% of the book, but the other 70% held me enthralled. There is no doubt that Robert Galbraith (aka J K Rowling) is a very skilled and talented author, and her characterizations are incredible. In this book Corm and Robin's detective agency are run off their feet with business. Then along comes a visitor that Robin meets. A young Gothic woman who has a very strange tale to tell about her on-line cartoon called The Ink Black Heart and the on-line abuse that she is receiving.. Robin is intrigued but knows that they're too busy to take on this case. Then Robin hears that the young woman is killed and her boyfriend was stabbed in the very graveyard on which her story is based. So Corm, Robin and their three contract detectives are on the tail of a particularly odious killer. At much risk to Comoran and Robin and to their business they continue on the quest to find a killer who uses the internet as his/her hunting ground. This is a particularly horrifying book, and probably realistically illustrates the danger of on-line relationships and influences. And it reminds parents that they must be particularly vigilant in monitoring their offspring's on-line footprint. Rowling has shown us in this book what a truly scary world we live in now. Although I did not like the format and the pages and pages of internet-speak, I still enjoyed the story, and I love Comoran and Robin and will eagerly awake the next instalment.

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