A review by blevins
The Dwarves of Death by Jonathan Coe

2.0

Early work by Coe that is pretty disappointing as it feels like an early book all too often as Coe delivers an uneven tale about a unknown musician in the late 1980s in London who gets entangled in a murder by a pair of dwarves beat a guy to death. Considering that is at the very start of the book and then we wind our way to how that night came about, there is very little tension in THE DWARVES OF DEATH. Also, Coe introduces topics or ideas and then goes nowhere with them, unsure if that it is something worth exploring later in the book. All too often, it isn't. The rock stuff in the book is pretty thinly constructed, as are most of the characters, so Coe is kind of lucky I don't stamp him w/ a rare 1 star!