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4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
When Robin and Strike interact, it is super exciting. When they moon over each other in extended inner monologues, I want to fall asleep.
A good story, but poorly written and unnecessarily long. There are instances where character getting out of a car takes up a page and a half, for example.
I finished it in spite of myself and found myself wondering why I kept reading, so the author is clearly doing something right. It didn't stay with me though, and I'm not especially pleased to have read it. As a piece of literature, it's disappointing. As a piece of murder mystery storytelling, it's ok.
I finished it in spite of myself and found myself wondering why I kept reading, so the author is clearly doing something right. It didn't stay with me though, and I'm not especially pleased to have read it. As a piece of literature, it's disappointing. As a piece of murder mystery storytelling, it's ok.
4.5 stars
I enjoyed this so much more than the last one.
I enjoyed this so much more than the last one.
A slow burn, which is usually followed by a satisfying twist at the end of the Cormoran Strike books. But this time, much of the book focuses on character development and as a result Lethal White moves slowly and is much less riveting than the previous 3 books. Still entertaining and worth a read if you follow the series.
Who am I to tell J.K. how to write, but it could have been 100 pages shorter. I loved the story though and Cormoran and Robin are two of my favorite literary characters ever.
This was very well done, as always, and very gripping. With a less busy schedule, I would have read this in a single sitting. However, I did get frustrated with all of the men acting terribly, especially the emotional abusiveness.
I enjoyed Lethal White as a fascinating and intricate detective story with some rich imagery and word selection that often had me using the Thesaurus feature on my Kindle. I enjoyed everything outside that sphere of the book considerably less. I find that the relationship drama and, at least in this book, the politicking a little too heavy-handed. Rowling writes characters that often feel real when they are talking about the mystery, but once they get past that they can feel like they are cartoonish in nature... I don't know... it's hard to explain.
That said, I still did enjoy about 80% of this book and it felt like as the reader I was always close to being able to piece it all together. If you have gotten past the first three books, you are sure to enjoy this one.
That said, I still did enjoy about 80% of this book and it felt like as the reader I was always close to being able to piece it all together. If you have gotten past the first three books, you are sure to enjoy this one.
Definitely not the best in the series...
We still get the good writing, and the good charaters(well, most....), and the good settings, but the whole story is laking... I'm not convinced by the motive of the beggining of all this.. And the whole explanation, it was to much of a jumble...
Oh and dumb Robyn is dumb! And so is Strike!
Oh and the ending was so clichê.. That character, really????
We still get the good writing, and the good charaters(well, most....), and the good settings, but the whole story is laking... I'm not convinced by the motive of the beggining of all this.. And the whole explanation, it was to much of a jumble...
Oh and dumb Robyn is dumb! And so is Strike!
Oh and the ending was so clichê.. That character, really????
I was heavily biased towards liking this series already, which is why I'm willing to forgive some issues of pacing and even grammar. It was slow-moving, but ultimately satisfying. I continue to like how very believably flawed, yet still very appealing, the main characters are. I was at times frustrated with the characters themselves, but never with how they were written, which overall works out as a good thing.
The mystery is well-constructed, and I had no trouble keeping characters apart, which I often find a problem in this genre (and even previously in this series, occasionally). This was the first one I listened to by audiobook, which may have helped, as the narrator does a very good job making voices and accents distinct. The reveal at the end was handled somewhat better than in many murder mysteries: there were extended passages of "good guys" and "bad guys" explaining everything to each other, but somewhat more believably, and much more engagingly, than when this often happens.
All in all, despite its flaws, I very much enjoyed this, and I'm sorry I'm already finished it, which works out as 4 stars.
The mystery is well-constructed, and I had no trouble keeping characters apart, which I often find a problem in this genre (and even previously in this series, occasionally). This was the first one I listened to by audiobook, which may have helped, as the narrator does a very good job making voices and accents distinct. The reveal at the end was handled somewhat better than in many murder mysteries: there were extended passages of "good guys" and "bad guys" explaining everything to each other, but somewhat more believably, and much more engagingly, than when this often happens.
All in all, despite its flaws, I very much enjoyed this, and I'm sorry I'm already finished it, which works out as 4 stars.