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john_withers 's review for:
The Running Grave
by Robert Galbraith
challenging
dark
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Overall, I enjoyed the storyline. However, the pace of much of the book was painfully slow. There are a lot of details included in the story, but quite a few of them don’t contribute to the plot. The book is overly long at 1100 pages in the ebook version I read. This is overly long at 200 pages longer than the previous book in the series. I believe tighter editing would have improved the overall pace. One thing I particularly didn’t enjoy was the forced inclusion of dialects