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thesonorista 's review for:
The Silkworm
by Robert Galbraith
Galbraith writes mysteries as intricate as silk lace. In The Silkworm characters and motives abound. The central mystery, while lurid and over-the-top, is set in a realistic world. There aren't ten people confined at a weekend getaway, rather Cormoran and Robin are realistic central characters with an evolving relationship set with misunderstandings and moments of clarity, and the rest of the world is full--full of literary egoists set against each other and united against the simple wife of Owen Quine, a has-been writer who has disappeared.
One of the things I love best about Galbraith's writing is that many scenes are set while people are eating and they talk with their mouths full and other people can't understand them, or they have to pause to swallow, or for waiters to walk away. It's one point of realism that I can point at that makes me feel like "yes, this is what life is really like." So no matter how strange the mystery becomes, the settings and characters are so believable that they carry the story.
The writing has gotten stronger on this second installment--a complaint about the first was that it was a long series of interviews--so if you didn't love the first novel, I'd suggest continuing on. In fact, while the relationship of the two protagonists is nice to see from the start, the mysteries do stand on their own.
One of the things I love best about Galbraith's writing is that many scenes are set while people are eating and they talk with their mouths full and other people can't understand them, or they have to pause to swallow, or for waiters to walk away. It's one point of realism that I can point at that makes me feel like "yes, this is what life is really like." So no matter how strange the mystery becomes, the settings and characters are so believable that they carry the story.
The writing has gotten stronger on this second installment--a complaint about the first was that it was a long series of interviews--so if you didn't love the first novel, I'd suggest continuing on. In fact, while the relationship of the two protagonists is nice to see from the start, the mysteries do stand on their own.