A review by angelica_jardinerica
Night After Night by Phil Rickman

1.0

I just don't get Phil Rickman. I don't get his writing style with its dodgy syntax, very often there are no subjects, half finished sentences and clauses which stop in the middle only to be finished in the following sentence. What's that all about? Is it deliberate? If so, what's its function? I don't get the constant exclamations of 'oh my God!' and inane repeated references to a particular item of clothing - in this case it was a woolly hat, in another of his novels (yes I confess, I've read another one of his) it was a duffel coat. But I really don't get which genre his novels are supposed to belong to - are they mystery? Comedy? Drama? In this case there was practically no mystery, I didn't laugh at all and I kept waiting for something to happen. I found the Merrily Watkins novel I read extremely irritating but thought I'd give him another chance. Lesson learnt.