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A review by balthazarlawson
Shatter The Bones by Stuart MacBride
2.0
This is the seventh book in the Logan McRae series. The reason I read this series is for the characters, with all their flaws, as much as for the crime investigation story.
But this book is a bit of a let down, in a big way.
The writing has become very formula driven with only the crime being different and how we are introduced to the crime is totally frustrating. The crime is revealed only a little bit at a time, but if I were a police investigator involved in the case I would have known everything could be known. As a reader I was denied this and this so off putting. I don't like books that treat readers like this, deliberately keeping them in the dark. I suppose it's a ploy to build suspense but it doesn't work with me. Like most books in the series it has the slow build at the start and get quicker to the end. But this book not only got quicker it also got a bit confusing.
So I didn't enjoy this book anywhere near as much as the others. It was too frustrating and too formula driven to fully enjoy.
But this book is a bit of a let down, in a big way.
The writing has become very formula driven with only the crime being different and how we are introduced to the crime is totally frustrating. The crime is revealed only a little bit at a time, but if I were a police investigator involved in the case I would have known everything could be known. As a reader I was denied this and this so off putting. I don't like books that treat readers like this, deliberately keeping them in the dark. I suppose it's a ploy to build suspense but it doesn't work with me. Like most books in the series it has the slow build at the start and get quicker to the end. But this book not only got quicker it also got a bit confusing.
So I didn't enjoy this book anywhere near as much as the others. It was too frustrating and too formula driven to fully enjoy.