3.75 AVERAGE


I continue to love Le Carre's prose, and I enjoyed the parts with Smiley et al rebuilding the Circus post-mole. The Eastern theater was also a refreshing setting change, except for all the racism/Orientalism and that I couldn't bring myself to care at all about Jerry or the actual spy plot.
slow-paced

Good, but the ending was far from satisfactory. Have to see how the next part of the Karla trilogy goes before I'd want to weigh in.
adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective 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: Complicated
adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Fairly confusing to follow, with a pretty oblique plot. The chapters were also overlong for me. But some of this may have been because I hadn't read the previous book.
slow-paced
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced