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ithinktfiam 's review for:
The Black House
by Peter May
Poor. The main story is about Fin, a guy who fled his town in far north Scotland, on the island of Lewis, under supposedly mysterious circumstances, and has to come back to see if a murder there might be associated with one he's investigating in Edinburgh. It's very gloomy and there are no redeeming characters, except maybe the assistant cop who is assigned to help him. Lots of angst, moping and lies.
That would be an average rating for me. What drags it down is something I hate, and have regularly pointed that hatred. Flashbacks. Every other chapter is to Fin's annoying and depressing childhood. If you're not good at hinting about backstory, you flesh it out too much; and half the book is way too much. It's done by people who can only think of a novella but want it to be a novel.
That would be an average rating for me. What drags it down is something I hate, and have regularly pointed that hatred. Flashbacks. Every other chapter is to Fin's annoying and depressing childhood. If you're not good at hinting about backstory, you flesh it out too much; and half the book is way too much. It's done by people who can only think of a novella but want it to be a novel.