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9.0
‘The Kill’ is an exciting, renewing page-turner with Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan. The plot of the novel is complex to say the least. There are many plot twists that left me shocked, dazed and once even slightly broken hearted and extremely sad.
The novel ends with a cliffhanger, which is EXTREMELY frustrating. Dear Jane Casey, please write Maeve Kerrigan #6. Because I need another novel with these awesome, brilliant, troubled characters. Pretty pretty please. Kind regards, Sonja.
Now going back to the plot. The pace of the novel was perfect. I loved every second of reading this novel! The characters, GOSH THE CHARACTERS, were as witty, funny and sexy (yes, I’m talking about DCI Josh Derwent) as always! I love Maeve even more after reading this novel. She is a strong, independent character with a good soul.
The writing is, as usual, excellent. It’s exciting, thrilling, surprising, at times a bit funny, all in all it’s amazing.
I recommend this novel to everyone who likes reading thrillers or crime novels or both. And to people who like reading a novel with a strong, independent female character. You won’t regret picking up this novel!
‘The Kill’ is an exciting, renewing page-turner with Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan. The plot of the novel is complex to say the least. There are many plot twists that left me shocked, dazed and once even slightly broken hearted and extremely sad.
The novel ends with a cliffhanger, which is EXTREMELY frustrating. Dear Jane Casey, please write Maeve Kerrigan #6. Because I need another novel with these awesome, brilliant, troubled characters. Pretty pretty please. Kind regards, Sonja.
Now going back to the plot. The pace of the novel was perfect. I loved every second of reading this novel! The characters, GOSH THE CHARACTERS, were as witty, funny and sexy (yes, I’m talking about DCI Josh Derwent) as always! I love Maeve even more after reading this novel. She is a strong, independent character with a good soul.
The writing is, as usual, excellent. It’s exciting, thrilling, surprising, at times a bit funny, all in all it’s amazing.
I recommend this novel to everyone who likes reading thrillers or crime novels or both. And to people who like reading a novel with a strong, independent female character. You won’t regret picking up this novel!
I still haven’t read the full series but I’m loving the little glimpses into the characters by reading these short stories. Looking forward to catching up on the series when I can!
So this one took me a lot longer to finish than the previous 4, but I'm chalking that up to an extremely busy week rather than lack of excitement in the story. Some topical issues made their way into this one; although I'm not up on the political climate of the UK I know what made big news in the USA during 2014 and picked up on references to those stories. I had some guesses about the whodunnit but really was shocked at the end because of how creepy it ended up being. I am definitely glad that the ending put Kerrigan and Derwent on a more platonic level and I'm sooo anxious to see what happens in the next book!!
I love Maeve Kerrigan so much. Jane Casey manages a feminist perspective in her writing that is natural rather than forced, and she sort of sneaks it in through Maeve's perspective in a totally male-dominated police department. Casey's mysteries are always good and tough to solve, but they largely become background for her characters - people you can't help rooting for, even when they're at their very worst. It's torment waiting for these books to make their way over from the UK.
E-novella, set between books 8 and 9 of Casey's Maeve Kerrigan series.
There is a thing that often happens in any genre where there's tons of technical information - whether real or invented - and that is that the characterisation takes second place. This is not necessarily a bad thing - sometimes that stuff is what we read for. And sometimes if we get too much character stuff, we find ourselves frustrated because it feels like, actually, feelings, all well and good, but it seems trivial next to the Big Stuff.
Jane Casey manages to strike a gorgeous balance between nitty-gritty stuff and making it feel like her characters are real. They care a lot about their work - to the detriment of other parts of their lives - but they do exist beyond it. So reading her police procedurals is a joy - and this latest is a particular thrill because we get inside the head of Georgia Shaw, Maeve's colleague and sometime thorn-in-side. The dynamics of the department are seen through these new eyes, and what I love is that Georgia gets to be as annoying and calculated in some ways as we imagined, while also having hidden depths. Because everyone has hidden depths, but it's very easy to excuse everything when getting inside someone's head (oh they're just misunderstood!) - this isn't what we get here.
There's also a satisfying mystery with twists; not as many as we would get in a full-length work, of course, but enough for this to feel like a satisfying instalment.
A very very pleasing thing to read.
There is a thing that often happens in any genre where there's tons of technical information - whether real or invented - and that is that the characterisation takes second place. This is not necessarily a bad thing - sometimes that stuff is what we read for. And sometimes if we get too much character stuff, we find ourselves frustrated because it feels like, actually, feelings, all well and good, but it seems trivial next to the Big Stuff.
Jane Casey manages to strike a gorgeous balance between nitty-gritty stuff and making it feel like her characters are real. They care a lot about their work - to the detriment of other parts of their lives - but they do exist beyond it. So reading her police procedurals is a joy - and this latest is a particular thrill because we get inside the head of Georgia Shaw, Maeve's colleague and sometime thorn-in-side. The dynamics of the department are seen through these new eyes, and what I love is that Georgia gets to be as annoying and calculated in some ways as we imagined, while also having hidden depths. Because everyone has hidden depths, but it's very easy to excuse everything when getting inside someone's head (oh they're just misunderstood!) - this isn't what we get here.
There's also a satisfying mystery with twists; not as many as we would get in a full-length work, of course, but enough for this to feel like a satisfying instalment.
A very very pleasing thing to read.