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readinginmagnolia 's review for:
A Strange Habit of Mind
by Andrew Klavan
Yikes! I could have sworn that I loved the first book in this series, but I must have been operating under the influence of the Christmas spirit. As a modern independent woman, I don’t think that I’m the right audience for this book. I remember book one as being gloomy and atmospheric featuring a main character, Cameron Winter, now professor of literature but a background in Special Ops, who was mooning over a lost love and confessing his deepest darkest to his therapist.
The latter elements are still strongly present in this story, but there is an air of repetition in Winter’s ongoing loss of Charlotte and revelations to Margaret. Not to mention how good looking he is and how all women want him and apparently, he wants them back, even the dumpy ones. He has a bit of a “mummy complex” as his mentor concluded, though I would liken it more to the Madonna.
The narrative was a bit broken with really good writing in some sections and not so much in others. Then there were the numerous political hot button topics touched on such as racism, rape culture, patriotism, bullying, abuse, social media censorship, etc. All from the rich, white protagonist who describes himself ad nauseum as an old-fashioned gentleman living in a modern world. He has a Strange Habit of Mind that allows him to intellectually look past all these perceived murky issues by the rest of us and see them clearly.
I didn’t really feel like there was a mystery to solve here. Winter just follows a series of events and research to the perpetrator of several so-called accidental deaths with the full knowledge of who was behind all of it, continuously questioning why he should bother since they were all bad people who deserved what they got. Recommended to my far-right wing friends and women who have 1950s values.
Thank you to Netgalley and Penzler Publishers for a copy provided for an honest review.
The latter elements are still strongly present in this story, but there is an air of repetition in Winter’s ongoing loss of Charlotte and revelations to Margaret. Not to mention how good looking he is and how all women want him and apparently, he wants them back, even the dumpy ones. He has a bit of a “mummy complex” as his mentor concluded, though I would liken it more to the Madonna.
The narrative was a bit broken with really good writing in some sections and not so much in others. Then there were the numerous political hot button topics touched on such as racism, rape culture, patriotism, bullying, abuse, social media censorship, etc. All from the rich, white protagonist who describes himself ad nauseum as an old-fashioned gentleman living in a modern world. He has a Strange Habit of Mind that allows him to intellectually look past all these perceived murky issues by the rest of us and see them clearly.
I didn’t really feel like there was a mystery to solve here. Winter just follows a series of events and research to the perpetrator of several so-called accidental deaths with the full knowledge of who was behind all of it, continuously questioning why he should bother since they were all bad people who deserved what they got. Recommended to my far-right wing friends and women who have 1950s values.
Thank you to Netgalley and Penzler Publishers for a copy provided for an honest review.