A review by siili
Dirk Gentlyn holistinen etsivätoimisto by Hilkka Pekkanen, Douglas Adams

2.0

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and I didn't meet out eye to eye it seems. I found the plot of this book a bit too confusing and also very "jumpy", meaning it was all over the place and then some. Because of all the genres mixed together, the book was very hard to follow and the plot, well I think there wasn't a clear plot in this one at all, or I missed the point of it completely.

I really didn't got a clear idea of the story because of that and I was annoyed that there were so many unanswered questions, like

Spoiler

why did Gordon try to call Susan when he was a ghost? And why was the other ghost introduced so suddenly and without any proper explanation?

and incoherent plotlines that didn't seem to have any conclusions (not including the one I think was the main one in the ending). Also this book wasn't that funny at all and I got bored of it quite soon, mostly because the plot was so confusing. Dirk wasn't that interesting of a person despite his quirkiness and Richard was downright boring, fair and square. So, this book was nothing that I expected it to be and it got me very bored and also slightly confused while I was reading it and I'm still not sure what really was the point of the story or was there one at all. That's why this book only gets 2½ stars rounded down to 2 stars from me.