ebats 's review for:

Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith

4.0

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hooray, new cormoran! like the previous installments, rowling writes a realistic investigation that is logically followed but still compulsively readable. strike and robin aren't superdetectives or anything, where leaps of thought lead to brillant but "how-did-they-even-get-there?" discoveries...they just do solid work, and it's refreshing. like usual, the matthew side plot stressed me out, and in this one i was more annoyed by robin's insatiable desire to please strike (and frustrated by her actions at the end; strike was completely justified in his reaction, even though you sympathize with robin's impetus). i kind of like the will-they-won't-they vibe; i kind of want it both ways (this reminded me of mulder and scully!), but i hope rowling takes care not to make that the focus of the next installments.