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A review by mrsbooknerd
Rush of Blood by Mark Billingham
2.0
There was a decent plot to this book but I felt that the pace and focus wasn't quite right and I struggled to maintain interest, though I did want to make it to the end.
None of the characters were likeable which would have been fine if there had been more plot and less repetitive conversations and descriptions of them all just eating and drinking for 200 odd pages. Instead it dragged, and became a series of releated conversations to make Ed seem like a pervert, or to emphasise how angry Barry was, to make Dave seem like an evil genius. In fact it was so set up that it was one of these three behind the murders that the ending was in no way a surprise to me.
The only POV that really progressed the plot was Jenny, and even she was a bit unlikeable, or at least it was hard to connect with her. But at least she did some investigation which led to new evidence and leads.
I also didn't like that they all just constantly talked about their weight, or the others weight. I've never thought of my friends or people that I know as Fat so and so or skinny whoever. It was all so cliche as well. Fat Angie, the friendly, jolly one. Skinny Sue, the sophisticated one. Marina who was neither but wanted to be skinny bevause doesn't everyone. Even Fat Jenny the biscuit eating PC who everyone thinks is gay because she is a fat police officer... they were just all so focused on weight that it felt like it should have led to something. It just made them all sound s shallow.
I don't know.
I kind of wanted to know how this one ended because I liked the idea, but I didn't enjoy the journey.
None of the characters were likeable which would have been fine if there had been more plot and less repetitive conversations and descriptions of them all just eating and drinking for 200 odd pages. Instead it dragged, and became a series of releated conversations to make Ed seem like a pervert, or to emphasise how angry Barry was, to make Dave seem like an evil genius. In fact it was so set up that it was one of these three behind the murders that the ending was in no way a surprise to me.
The only POV that really progressed the plot was Jenny, and even she was a bit unlikeable, or at least it was hard to connect with her. But at least she did some investigation which led to new evidence and leads.
I also didn't like that they all just constantly talked about their weight, or the others weight. I've never thought of my friends or people that I know as Fat so and so or skinny whoever. It was all so cliche as well. Fat Angie, the friendly, jolly one. Skinny Sue, the sophisticated one. Marina who was neither but wanted to be skinny bevause doesn't everyone. Even Fat Jenny the biscuit eating PC who everyone thinks is gay because she is a fat police officer... they were just all so focused on weight that it felt like it should have led to something. It just made them all sound s shallow.
I don't know.
I kind of wanted to know how this one ended because I liked the idea, but I didn't enjoy the journey.