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laurieb755 's review for:
The Silkworm
by Robert Galbraith
I am a J.K. Rowling fan, starting with the very first Harry Potter when it was initially published, moving on to The Casual Vacancy and then The Cuckoo's Calling with Cormoran Strike. I came to The Silkworm with solid expectations and, for the most part, they were met. Rowling/Galbraith has a vivid imagination and with a deft handling of words can make that imagination come to life for readers.
Still, something was left wanting with this book. In the interim between the first Cormoran Strike novel and this one, I have read every one of the Inspector Gamache novels by Louise Penny. With much in common, including their love of a good mystery, Rowling and Penny have a marvelous command of geographic locales, and they know their sleuths intimately.
But Louise Penny spoiled me with the richness of her characters, and with the relationships between many of them that span nine novels, with the tenth just out this month (though I haven't yet read it). Alas, on occasion while reading The Silkworm I found myself thinking of Inspector Gamache and his bookmates. While Cormoran Strike is richly portrayed, his lovely associate Robin is still being filled in, and her fiancé Matthew appears very typically drawn. I am hoping that if Cormoran and Robin make a return, Rowling convinces Galbraith to draw out these folks with the same skill and depth that Strike calls out the perpetrators he investigates.
Still, something was left wanting with this book. In the interim between the first Cormoran Strike novel and this one, I have read every one of the Inspector Gamache novels by Louise Penny. With much in common, including their love of a good mystery, Rowling and Penny have a marvelous command of geographic locales, and they know their sleuths intimately.
But Louise Penny spoiled me with the richness of her characters, and with the relationships between many of them that span nine novels, with the tenth just out this month (though I haven't yet read it). Alas, on occasion while reading The Silkworm I found myself thinking of Inspector Gamache and his bookmates. While Cormoran Strike is richly portrayed, his lovely associate Robin is still being filled in, and her fiancé Matthew appears very typically drawn. I am hoping that if Cormoran and Robin make a return, Rowling convinces Galbraith to draw out these folks with the same skill and depth that Strike calls out the perpetrators he investigates.