I Did Not Finish at 25 percent.
Everyone told me I was going to love this. But at over 600 pages and 25 percent in, you have to be better than this. I just didn’t care about anything. Reading about Harry falling off the wagon again I just could not. And the whole set up with him shooting a secret service agent was so farcical I just couldn’t suspend my disbelief. I think because the book being written out of sequence is just what finally made me say enough.
“The Redbreast” follows Harry Hole after he accidentally shoots someone he should not have and is promoted (don’t ask). The book then bounces around to Harry’s investigation of Neo-Nazis to following a group of soldiers during WWII. I hazard a guess this is about mistaken identifies or something. I refuse to even try to skim with this one and am going to send this back to the library stakes as soon as possible.
I read this for Cannonball Read 14 bingo:
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- Question: A book you pick up to answer a question (the question might be, “Will I like this book?”); a book asking questions; the kind of book that prompts people to ask, “Are you really reading that?”
- The response was no I did not like this book. I could barely get through to the 25 percent mark when I just tossed in the towel.