Okay, so first things first. Ms. Rowling is absolutely fantastic at details. She has a true talent for being able to put small things into the story without making them obvious and later have them be pivotal. I did get stuck more than once because my imagination kept putting a fedora and trench coat...
(disclaimer: I did know that Robert Galbraith was J.K. before reading "The Cuckoo's Calling" :) )My main motivation was to see whether J.K. could in fact write something different from the Harry Potter books. I think I could say that's it's definitely a yes. Is the book entirely successful, sadly no...
I like my mysteries to be suspenseful and have action, this book unfortunately lacks on both. I made it 56% through and just could not carry on. It was BORING, and it didn't even make me care what had actually happened to Lula Landry; whether she had been murdered or whether it had been a suicide. I...
I liked this book.The Cuckoo's Calling is a for me thoroughly British mystery. In my rather limited experience with the mystery and crime genres, I associate these kind of quiet, meandering kind of mysteries to British television (like Midsomer Murders) while the flashy action based ones seem Americ...
I wonder what the critics would have said about this book if it really had been written by an unknown named Robert Galbraith. I notice most of the blurbs focus on Cormoran Strike, the detective—which is fitting because he is the only character with any depth throughout the first half of the novel. M...
Decided to read this after I finished The Silkworm, because Luna Landry was mentioned thirteen times in Silkworm, so how could I not? Well then, so here we have Strike, previously of the army but now turned private investigator, hired to investigate the apparent suicide of famous supermodel Luna Lan...
“How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?”5 stars.When I first heard about this book, I was rather intrigued. Even more so when truth was revealed behind the author's name of this book--regardless, I truly enjoyed this book. Depicted as a crime noir fiction, The Cuckoo's Calli...
So we read this book for our book club, and I was thoroughly impressed in all honesty. I love love love JK Rowling, and like so many I am a huge Potterhead (I have the Deathly Hallows tattooed on my ankle) but I was slightly nervous for this book. I'd heard amazing things, but I found that with "The...
I don't like mysteries. I don't have time for Dupin or Holmes. I could care less about James Patterson or Janet Evanovich. I don't care who the killer is. I don't believe the detective on the case is all that brilliant. You like mysteries? Here's one for you: Why am I reading this book? The answer m...
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