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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
One of the best ‘crime’ writers about!! Except the ‘crime/s’ are almost incidental or supporting acts. Really a book about the lives of the main characters depicted and a superb and often hilarious commentary on modern living and what it can throw at you.
Quality of the writing is excellent, particularly dialogue. So good!
Quality of the writing is excellent, particularly dialogue. So good!
Very disappointing considering how gripping and multi-layered Case Histories was. This seems to fail as both a thriller and a literary novel, as it's not exciting enough to be a thriller and the general plot is quite dull.
slow-paced
dark
mysterious
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
This is the second in the Jackson Brodie series and my least favorite - although Gloria is a pip! Also, I liked getting to know Louise Monroe better. However, the last two in the series remain my favorites. Atkinson is an amazing writer and i Look forward to the next in the series.
Boy, was this a disappointment.
I've read Atkinson before (Life After Life) and enjoyed it, but these Jackson Brodie books are just not good. I work as an editor and this book CONSTANTLY interrupted my reading flow because she has some weird hangup about semicolons (my favorite punctuation mark!). She WILL. NOT. use them, even though practically every sentence she writes calls for one. She just scatters commas everywhere, willy nilly, where there should be semicolons and conjunctions and new sentences (oh my!). Come to think of it, that might be why she doesn't use semicolons: because to do so would call out the fact that nearly every sentence is a jumbled mess of run-on thoughts, all crammed together stream-of-consciousness style. I liked Case Histories reasonably well and hoped I'd enjoy the rest of the series, but no thank you. Brodie has not grown one whit as a character, and everyone else in this book (with possible exception of Louise) was just an annoying mess.
I've read Atkinson before (Life After Life) and enjoyed it, but these Jackson Brodie books are just not good. I work as an editor and this book CONSTANTLY interrupted my reading flow because she has some weird hangup about semicolons (my favorite punctuation mark!). She WILL. NOT. use them, even though practically every sentence she writes calls for one. She just scatters commas everywhere, willy nilly, where there should be semicolons and conjunctions and new sentences (oh my!). Come to think of it, that might be why she doesn't use semicolons: because to do so would call out the fact that nearly every sentence is a jumbled mess of run-on thoughts, all crammed together stream-of-consciousness style. I liked Case Histories reasonably well and hoped I'd enjoy the rest of the series, but no thank you. Brodie has not grown one whit as a character, and everyone else in this book (with possible exception of Louise) was just an annoying mess.
As mysteries go it's not fabulous, too many coincidences for my taste. However, the characters were so enjoyable that it was hard to put down.
adventurous
mysterious
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes