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Ok so the first half of this book was just terrible, it looked like one of those mid 80 mystery pocket books that I used to stole from my brothers bookshelf full of body images and sexy women and ... lots of other garbage. I cannot even imagine how JK Rolling could have written such a garbage. honestly it took all my love for Harry Potter not to drop this.
As we moved toward the end it got better but still an average book at the best. If you read the rest of them, please tell me that they are bet ...more
As we moved toward the end it got better but still an average book at the best. If you read the rest of them, please tell me that they are bet ...more
Private detective Cormoran Strike and his temp secretary Robin are hired to look into the alleged suicide of a supermodel in Great Britain.
I loved the characters and their sort of noir/old-school feel. I enjoyed the mystery itself and found the denouement quite satisfying.
What I tired of quite quickly was the Foul (emphasis on that "f") language. Knocking the usage down to once or twice a page (rather than a dozen or so) would have shortened the book by fifty pages.
Not a bad outing for Rowling a ...more
I loved the characters and their sort of noir/old-school feel. I enjoyed the mystery itself and found the denouement quite satisfying.
What I tired of quite quickly was the Foul (emphasis on that "f") language. Knocking the usage down to once or twice a page (rather than a dozen or so) would have shortened the book by fifty pages.
Not a bad outing for Rowling a ...more
To be honest, putting up a review of J.K. Rowling's famous book, The Cuckoo's Calling, seems a bit silly. For months this book sat, unknown, on shelves. In fact, I have a friend who is a librarian in a small-town library and she has informed me that they had 10 copies in the system (with copies available) and the number of requests the day Rowling's name was released as the author went up to 3500. That's a lot of press and, if it was deliberate, really freaking brilliant on the publisher's part.
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