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booksandlemonsquash 's review for:
Odd Child Out
by Gilly Macmillan
I was given this copy by the publishers, via Net Galley, in exchange for an honest review.
I hadn’t read the first Detective Clemo story, which luckily didn’t matter when getting into this gloriously complex crime book. It’s different to a lot I have read - largely because it’s not about a gruesome murder! It’s not a thriller or your standard crime fare. It’s a bit slow to be fair, and I felt it was a little overwritten in places, but the themes were really well done. Just the right amount of intrigue, sentiment and facts. The story of the boys worked for me - even if Noah wasn’t particularly likeable it was hard not to have sympathy for him.
I think the story is good and I’d recommend it to someone who wanted to try something a bit different but I would also say that it does suffer slightly from being two stories in one. Noah’s story is largely unaffected by Abdi’s (though the opposite is not true) and is really only muddled by it. Whereas Abdi and his family’s story was really the more interesting and intriguing, it really only served to muddle the waters of what happened to Noah, and I’m not sure I like that particular aspect of how the story was told.
I hadn’t read the first Detective Clemo story, which luckily didn’t matter when getting into this gloriously complex crime book. It’s different to a lot I have read - largely because it’s not about a gruesome murder! It’s not a thriller or your standard crime fare. It’s a bit slow to be fair, and I felt it was a little overwritten in places, but the themes were really well done. Just the right amount of intrigue, sentiment and facts. The story of the boys worked for me - even if Noah wasn’t particularly likeable it was hard not to have sympathy for him.
I think the story is good and I’d recommend it to someone who wanted to try something a bit different but I would also say that it does suffer slightly from being two stories in one. Noah’s story is largely unaffected by Abdi’s (though the opposite is not true) and is really only muddled by it. Whereas Abdi and his family’s story was really the more interesting and intriguing, it really only served to muddle the waters of what happened to Noah, and I’m not sure I like that particular aspect of how the story was told.