gabysm11 's review for:

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

4.0

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This woman never ceases to amaze me. There must be hundreds of mystery novels out there, but she manages to keep the curiosity and interest of the reader until the very end. Setting the mystery around the literary scene only made it more compelling, shedding some light on the personality of various authors and literary figures and their complicated relationships. The most astonishing thing is she probably wrote three different plots to the book. The main plot of the book, the plot of the book the missing author supposedly wrote, which we get to read and the original plot he wrote. We don't see the latter but being J.K. Rowling, I think it's safe to say she knows it and it's scribbled somewhere in her home office. The development of the two main characters is also excellent; it's just the second book of the series but you can already see heaps of changes, that feel natural and nothing at all rushed on both of them.