Well this book put me through the wringer. After the bloated and disappointing The Leopard, this novel, the 9th in the Harry Hole series, get back to the heart of what makes Harry such a compelling character. All his strengths and faults (some of which are the same) are on fine display here. Harry lands in Oslo a different man from the broken one that left three years ago, but what he is there to do will take him down to the very depths once […]
Running Away From the Past
Yet another book with a really unlikable female narrator. I feel like I’ve read a lot of these lately — anything by Gillian Flynn, The Girl on the Train, Dear Daughter, and so on. But just like all those novels, with their fucked up protagonists that make shitty decision after shitty decision, based on poor impulse control and messed up childhoods, I could not stop reading this damn book. Back in high school, Juliet Townsend was always right on the heels of her best friend and rival […]
a process of destruction
After the horrific events of The Snowman, Harry is in self-imposed exile in Hong Kong, using opium to manage his pain, both physical and emotional. Then a detective from Oslo comes to tell him that Gunnar Hagen has need of his services once more. There have some rather gruesome murders of women in Oslo and Hagen thinks they may be linked. Add to this more political maneuvering and intrigue between Crime Squad and Kripos. Ugh. So Harry, a new colleague named Kaja Solness and the rockabilly […]
I’m with Guy… I like them a bit stern too.
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
*Note: This review was completed in 2015 before the author’s views towards our trans siblings began to be widely known. My reading experience was what it was and these reviews will remain up, but it should be noted that I find her TERF values abhorrent, which have only become more clear over time, and her doubling down in Summer 2020 has made the decision to walk away from her as a creative force the only acceptable choice for me. I will no longer be supporting […]
More Moriarty Mysteries
And now I’m done with Liane Moriarty’s entire catalog of books. The Last Anniversary is similar to most of Moriarty’s books; there is a mystery that ties a group of people together and is pieced together through various points of view. In this case we have the mystery of the Munro baby; Alice & Jack Munro abandoned their house and child in 1932, the infant was found by Rose and Connie Doughty who raise the child and capitalize on the mystery for the next 73 […]
What Happens When I Walk Into a Used Bookstore
I was in a used bookstore and I randomly picked up Murder on the Prowl. I was expecting something like Lillian Jackson Braun’s The Cat Who series, which I loved. Boy was I wrong. The similarities are a rather cranky-snarky protagonist with a powerful independence streak who encounters a lot of murders and ends up solving them with some help from friends and pets. The differences are many, but this isn’t bad. First of all, the main character is the postmistress Harry Haristeen (female) and […]
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