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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
Each of Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano is thoroughly delightful and enjoyable. He has not missed yet. In fact, they get better. I look forward to the next. May he write forever.
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Another fantastic addition to the Inspector Montalbano oeuvre. This one's got it all- mystery, sex, food, murder, and horses (?)-in spades. A stellar installment to what has quickly become my favorite series. The only downside to Camilleri's books is that they are terribly addictive!
A fun read as always.
Looking bad for the Salvo-Lidia relationship. It's only a phone call affair now.
A nice mystery without too many gruesome murders.
Looking bad for the Salvo-Lidia relationship. It's only a phone call affair now.
A nice mystery without too many gruesome murders.
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death
Pas son meilleur. L'action est fragmenté et pas des plus intéressantes.
An easy and light humored mastery read, great for reading on a road trip or while sitting at the beach. Wasn't particularly deep but the novel was for entertainment. You get drawn into the story and the characters are all interesting and memorable.
An easy and light humored mastery read, great for reading on a road trip or while sitting at the beach. Wasn't particularly deep but the novel was for entertainment. You get drawn into the story and the characters are all interesting and memorable.
This was a real non-event of a book. Inspector Montalbano wakes one morning to find a horse beaten to death on the beach outside his home. He spends three hundred pages occasionally investigating illegal horse racing rings, having clandestine trysts in stables and having his home ransacked by burglars, but mainly eating fish courses and admiring picturesque views.
I was given this for my monthly book group, never having read Andrea Camilleri before, and I can't say I ever will again. As the twelfth in a series, there's a lot of assumed knowledge at play. None of the supporting characters are ever really introduced, and they all act and speak like terrible charicatures. Perhaps it's a translation issue, but the way their Italian dialect is written seems like a horrible parody. Our hero Montalbano doesn't seem like a particularly nice chap - he casually cheats on his girlfriend, then later feels sad about it for all of half a page. The ending is utterly bizarre, and look, I'm sure this makes a lovely television series with some spectacular scenery, but it's written like a very lazy script outline and there's just absolutely no substance to it. The whole thing only took about four hours to read, but I couldn't recommend it.
I was given this for my monthly book group, never having read Andrea Camilleri before, and I can't say I ever will again. As the twelfth in a series, there's a lot of assumed knowledge at play. None of the supporting characters are ever really introduced, and they all act and speak like terrible charicatures. Perhaps it's a translation issue, but the way their Italian dialect is written seems like a horrible parody. Our hero Montalbano doesn't seem like a particularly nice chap - he casually cheats on his girlfriend, then later feels sad about it for all of half a page. The ending is utterly bizarre, and look, I'm sure this makes a lovely television series with some spectacular scenery, but it's written like a very lazy script outline and there's just absolutely no substance to it. The whole thing only took about four hours to read, but I couldn't recommend it.