A review by binstonbirchill
Wolf on a String by Benjamin Black

1.0

I unfortunately won this audio book through goodreads giveaways. I entered it because the setting seemed interesting and I know Emperor Rudolph was a 'peculiar' man to say the least. A man stumbles on a murder, then is told he's to investigate that murder. Unfortunately the author decided to make this man the least interesting man in the world and then stick with him as the narrator for the entire story. Wow. That's a bold choice but he went with it so let's see how it goes. Everyone who is of any interest comes to spy on and talk to our main character, usually the spying and talking occurs in the same scene which gets more and more absurd the more times it happens. In between his bouts of sex our main character does no investigating, because he's quite unfit for the role which, all things considered, is fair. But then why do we want to read about this? Oh yeah, the setting and this historical context. Whelp, sorry, none of that in this book. People come talk to our main character some more and then they tell him who killed the girl and some other things. He buys back his horse and... What? That's it?

I knew from disc one that I should have stopped but for some reason I didn't.

One rotten turd-encrusted star.