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Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (J.K.Rowling)
Most
of us enjoyed this book, as we tend to ignore the bad language these
days. (is that a sign that we are getting immured to it as we are so
constantly bombarded with it).
It
was a quick, undemanding book, but quite complex in concept. We
thought that the characters were empathetic and distinctive. J.K.
Rowling is excellent at characterization but we thought she was
patronising the way she wrote about lower class speech. It took some
thinking about why the guilty man would hire a detective to
investigate the murder he did, but as it stood when Lula died the
money went to her mother, and John was desperate for funds to get him
out of a fix, and had heard that Lula was going to leave everything
to her brother, which was him. He needed to find that other will. He
was a bit of a nutcase and someone in the book was pretty sure that
John had set up the death of his younger brother when they were
children.
We
liked the discussion of cost of clothing, None of us are in the
market for the type of clothing Lula kept buying, and would never
have thought of handbags with removable liners..
We
wondered how much longer Robin's relationship with her Fiancee would
last. I found it difficult to relate to the passing of time, as I
thought that Robin stayed working for Cormoran for longer than the
three weeks that she initially was going to do. Cormoran kept going
out and investigating and disappearing for indeterminate periods.
Her
next book, Silkworm is better, but the film of the book didn't map
well on to the book.
We
all agreed a mark of 7, with one dissention due to the language.The
Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (J.K.Rowling)
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