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A review by leelee77
Butterfly on the Storm by Walter Lucius
2.0
I really struggled to enjoy this book. The plot sounded interesting, a young Afghan boy is found abandoned on a road following a hit & run and the links to international crime seemed intriguing. The comparison to the Millenium trilogy was another thing which tempted me to read - but it was way off the mark.
There are quite a lot of characters to try and keep track of which got kind of confusing. One of the main characters Farah was a bit of a cold bitch, she cheated on her partner and showed no remorse at all. A whole bunch of tedious name dropping every time she drove her car somewhere and parked "the Carrera" - yawn, I'd rather she was driving a Citroen 2CV!
I think the book as a whole would be far better with a couple hundred pages shaved off it, to me it felt like I read something and got nothing relevant out of what I just read. I won't be going on to read the other 2 books when they come out.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher Michael Joseph for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
There are quite a lot of characters to try and keep track of which got kind of confusing. One of the main characters Farah was a bit of a cold bitch, she cheated on her partner and showed no remorse at all. A whole bunch of tedious name dropping every time she drove her car somewhere and parked "the Carrera" - yawn, I'd rather she was driving a Citroen 2CV!
I think the book as a whole would be far better with a couple hundred pages shaved off it, to me it felt like I read something and got nothing relevant out of what I just read. I won't be going on to read the other 2 books when they come out.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher Michael Joseph for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.