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The Kind Worth Saving
by Peter Swanson
I loved The Kind Worth Killing -- Swanson's 2015 thriller was twisty, inventive, surprising, and such a satisfying read. I've recommended it to enough readers who "just want a good read," that Swanson should be paying me royalties.
This is not a worthy "sequel." It's predictable, poorly written...and just dull. It's not really even a sequel. Sure, Henry Kimball and Lily Kintner are back -- but whereas Lily is one of the more devious, delightful anti-heroes in the first book, in this one she's basically just window dressing. And Henry is just a sad-sack private detective living in a crappy apartment with a cat writing terrible limericks and trying to solve an obvious "mystery."
There's not even really a mystery here. We know everything that's about to happen. There are no surprises, no twists. Swanson is constantly clumsy about how information is revealed -- we have the dueling narrators again, and we spend so much time rehashing what the reader already knows so the other character can get up to speed.
Skip this. I'd actually given up on Swanson after the several books after The Kind Worth Killing were duds. But I got sucked back in for this "sequel." Bad move. Error in judgment. Won't happen again.
This is not a worthy "sequel." It's predictable, poorly written...and just dull. It's not really even a sequel. Sure, Henry Kimball and Lily Kintner are back -- but whereas Lily is one of the more devious, delightful anti-heroes in the first book, in this one she's basically just window dressing. And Henry is just a sad-sack private detective living in a crappy apartment with a cat writing terrible limericks and trying to solve an obvious "mystery."
There's not even really a mystery here. We know everything that's about to happen. There are no surprises, no twists. Swanson is constantly clumsy about how information is revealed -- we have the dueling narrators again, and we spend so much time rehashing what the reader already knows so the other character can get up to speed.
Skip this. I'd actually given up on Swanson after the several books after The Kind Worth Killing were duds. But I got sucked back in for this "sequel." Bad move. Error in judgment. Won't happen again.