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annaka_haynes 's review for:
Lament for a Maker
by Michael Innes
I had major issues getting into this book, largely because the first section is narrated by a Scot with such thick dialect that I didn't know what half the words meant- and the dictionary wasn't much help! That problem is solved when the narrator changes by section, but I wasn't a big fan of that method, either. Four or five narrators over the course of the book, with somewhat self-conscious transitions in between, makes for an oddly disrupted journey as a reader. The mystery itself was clever; while the coincidences that made it possible were a bit contrived, Innes explains them in a way that seems possible, if not exactly probable. I didn't enjoy this as much as the first two Appleby novels, but it was still fun- and my Scots vocabulary has expanded greatly...