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A review by graff_fuller
To Love and Be Wise by Josephine Tey
challenging
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
It has been a LONG time since I've read a Detective-Inspector Alan Grant story. I hadn't realized how much I've missed them.
I picked To Love and Be Wise up, for palette cleanser from the Science Fiction and Fantasy that I've be reading alternately.
Ran into a difficulty with TheStoryGraph...and needed to shake things up a bit...so this story did the trick.
Also, I love how DI Grant thinks. He actually reminds me of Robert Galbraith's titular character Comoran Strike (in a sense...they are actually VERY different, but for the reader...they do the same thing). Obviously, he's brilliant, but the way he makes the reader feel...in the way that he searches for clues and then reveals them. It may just be a ME thing, but I get the same feeling reading one of Tey's mysteries...as I do Galbraith's.
Also, the reveal...seems MORE relevant for today's audience, versus the audience of the day that it was published.
There are only three more of her novels that I haven't read. Which makes me happy AND sad, at the same time.
I picked To Love and Be Wise up, for palette cleanser from the Science Fiction and Fantasy that I've be reading alternately.
Ran into a difficulty with TheStoryGraph...and needed to shake things up a bit...so this story did the trick.
Also, I love how DI Grant thinks. He actually reminds me of Robert Galbraith's titular character Comoran Strike (in a sense...they are actually VERY different, but for the reader...they do the same thing). Obviously, he's brilliant, but the way he makes the reader feel...in the way that he searches for clues and then reveals them. It may just be a ME thing, but I get the same feeling reading one of Tey's mysteries...as I do Galbraith's.
Also, the reveal...seems MORE relevant for today's audience, versus the audience of the day that it was published.
There are only three more of her novels that I haven't read. Which makes me happy AND sad, at the same time.