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books_are_nice_and_enjoyable's reviews
256 reviews
funny
Engaging, funny, entertaining, interesting. Stephen Fry did an excellent job here.
dark
This is a powerful book.
Content Warnings
The ending left quite a few questions unanswered, and the decision not to leave in the Cessna made absolutely no sense.
This story is mainly just a repeat of earlier stories already written. Matchfixing, blackmail, a murder, a big confrontation at the end. Somewhat formulaic, which subtracted somewhat from the reading experience.
This one was an unpleasant read, because of what Halley had to go through. I was debating whether to stop reading roughly halfway through, because the book was getting a bit tiresome as it was all just 'a bit too much'. It just got harder and harder to engage in that critically important willing suspension of disbelief. A key thought I couldn't push away was that if the main crook had actually behaved the way he was described in the book, if he'd actually been that evil and irrational and open about his crimes, then there'd have been no book because he'd have been murdered by one of his victims a looong time ago. So the crook was not plausible, making the whole setup not plausible. Presumably less-extreme versions of mr. McCusker do exist, but that's the point - they're less extreme, less stupid and impulsive, more clever - or they don't exist for long.
However it must be said that the writing style was somewhat reminiscent of the older Francis' works.
However it must be said that the writing style was somewhat reminiscent of the older Francis' works.
