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A review by sssnoo
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
4.0
Troubled blood is a stellar installment of the Cormoran Strike mystery series. The mystery is well-plotted and full of twists and turns. The personalities are complex and well rendered. My favorite mysteries contain a lot of character development of the leads, and Galbraith entwines the backstory seamlessly.
I know there is a lot of controversy about this book - that it is transphobic. I read it looking for plots and writing that was transphobic - or relating to trans people at all. But there is just nothing there. In almost 1000 pages there are only a few sentences included where Strike and Robin contemplate the hypothesis that the serial killer they are hunting may have used a female disguise to make it easier to abduct women. That's it. Maybe 5 sentences or so, and all totally consistent with the plot, talking about a murderer nefariously using a disguise. This book has nothing to do with nor does it disparage transgender people. There is feminist/me-too content throughout, however. That is the sex/gender topic in the book - and one JKR/Galbraith has the experience to write bout.
So I get it that JKR has dug herself in deep via Twitter, but I've read the Tweets and I am not convinced she is transphobic. Mostly she should not be using Twitter to discuss her concerns about children and adolescents transitioning. I'll let her work that out with her detractors. I am not going to try to be the interpreter or spokesperson for either side of this on-line fight.
I know there is a lot of controversy about this book - that it is transphobic. I read it looking for plots and writing that was transphobic - or relating to trans people at all. But there is just nothing there. In almost 1000 pages there are only a few sentences included where Strike and Robin contemplate the hypothesis that the serial killer they are hunting may have used a female disguise to make it easier to abduct women. That's it. Maybe 5 sentences or so, and all totally consistent with the plot, talking about a murderer nefariously using a disguise. This book has nothing to do with nor does it disparage transgender people. There is feminist/me-too content throughout, however. That is the sex/gender topic in the book - and one JKR/Galbraith has the experience to write bout.
So I get it that JKR has dug herself in deep via Twitter, but I've read the Tweets and I am not convinced she is transphobic. Mostly she should not be using Twitter to discuss her concerns about children and adolescents transitioning. I'll let her work that out with her detractors. I am not going to try to be the interpreter or spokesperson for either side of this on-line fight.