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Just One Evil Act
by Elizabeth George
It’s the end of an era. I’ve read 17 Elizabeth George novels, but this time I just couldn’t finish - and I won’t be reading any more. I tried. I really tried. But I haven’t thoroughly enjoyed a book in years.
I’m not sure what is more annoying - the gross amount of untranslated Italian, the entirely pompous way George has been telling her stories for the last few years, or the fact that her characters have become completely unrecognizable shells of themselves. Thomas Lynley is boring, and his forced relationship with the vet is reaching and uninteresting. Barbara Havers has become a stereotype. She’s had no character growth (only forced physical changes by Dorothea and Angelina), and she makes absolutely insane decisions in this novel that are just plain unbelievable. We get it - she’s a slob, she reeks of cigarettes and she is now a bumbling idiot because she’s fallen in love with a man. Insert eye roll here.
I have loved George’s novels in the past, and it pains me so much, but I have to say - this series died with Helen.
I’m not sure what is more annoying - the gross amount of untranslated Italian, the entirely pompous way George has been telling her stories for the last few years, or the fact that her characters have become completely unrecognizable shells of themselves. Thomas Lynley is boring, and his forced relationship with the vet is reaching and uninteresting. Barbara Havers has become a stereotype. She’s had no character growth (only forced physical changes by Dorothea and Angelina), and she makes absolutely insane decisions in this novel that are just plain unbelievable. We get it - she’s a slob, she reeks of cigarettes and she is now a bumbling idiot because she’s fallen in love with a man. Insert eye roll here.
I have loved George’s novels in the past, and it pains me so much, but I have to say - this series died with Helen.