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Blue Lightning

Ann Cleeves

3.91 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark mysterious sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This was my fave book out of the first 4. Very dramatic and a surprise ending (at least for me because it was out of order from the Netflix series).
adventurous mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
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chumhum's review

4.0
dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I suppose if you love someone, you don“t stop them doing the things that make them happy.

After that ending I'm not even sure what to think of the direction this series will take.

But I will find out because I will read the rest of them. How could I not which such an ending?
emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book was good right up to the end. The ending was hugely disappointing, because it turned out that Perez knew a WHOLE bunch of stuff which had not even been hinted at anywhere in the novel. There was no possible way for the reader to play along, because not only did Cleeves withhold important facts, she withheld the fact that Perez had gathered important facts. Madness. I do like the characters and the plot was a good one, but she just does not play fair with readers, and this might have been the worst of all of hers I've read so far--not just this series but also the Vera Stanhope series. I might conceivably read the next one, but it's not available in the library and if they won't buy it I certainly won't.
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix