I liked this book more than its predecessor, due in large part to the setting of the mystery. Messy publishing drama of the fictional variety is extremely my jam. It’s right up there with cheesy disaster flicks. Only more believable. I worked for a small press for a short time, and the drama that we...
I have never read any Harry Potter and would probably not have read this if I hadn't been given the unabridged audio CDs by a friend. Happily it turned out to be an unexpected combination of good narration and mystery and kept my attention to the end. Private investigator, Cormoran Strike, is visi...
I've never read Rowling's other piece of adult fiction, The Casual Vacancy, and I haven't heard anything about that causes me to put it on my mental TBR list, so in my own mind, at least, I had written her off as a bit of a one-trick pony. A really, really good one-trick pony, a one-trick pony who w...
I continued my current crime reading escapade with the second book in Robert Galbraith’s (JK Rowling’s pseudonym) P.I series, featuring Cormoran Strike. I was warned it was a little graphic and it was, but I didn’t have any significant problems with it. If you plan to pick it up bear in mind that th...
It was with curiosity, fondness and indeed excitement that I commenced reading The Silkworm by JK Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Cormoran Strike is not the conventional detective. He is a man not only shaped by his unusual upbringing (son of famous rock star Jonny Rokeby) but deeply ...
Jesus H. Christ, where did that come from??? Oh man, talk about "leagues from Harry Potter" ... more like, in a different galaxy. And I mean content-, not quality-wise. It's no coincidence that every single chapter of this book is prefaced by a quote from a different 16th / 17th century revenge...
Carmoran Strike is more caring than he admit to himself. He taken up this case because the woman really need help. The husband has gone missing, and this is not the first time. Owen, the writer, was a self-obsessed jerk. He did this disappearing act for attention and hope to get publicity. Now ...
I have no idea how to rate this book. I gave it 3/5 stars because it was not really my cup of tea. Doing this, I feel like I don't do it justice because I only rate it based on my apreciation and not based on the book itself. I always have difficulties reviewing genres I'm not used to reading. I enj...
It took me only 3 days to finish this book with its 600 pages, so the term "compulsive reading" surely applies to The Silkworm (or The Cuckoo´s Calling for that matter). Unfortunately the Cormoran Stike novels never manage to be more than an enjoyable read for me with some flaws. The biggest probl...
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