The Silkworm
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (706 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00IMLDGIM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 568 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Even Better Than The First" according to syntaxactics. I adored the first book, so I had high hopes for this one. I mean, really, really high hopes. I arranged my entire week around reading it so that once I started, I wouldn't have to put it down.This is always a dangerous endeavor, because if the book turns out to be less good than I hoped, I'm deeply disappointed.As you can guess by the title of this review, quite the opposite occurred.In my opinion, Galbraith's greatest strength is the ability to build believable. Comes to a grinding halt halfway through My biggest issue with the first Strike book was that it was too long and too slow. The second Strike book fixed one of those issues. Being 100 pages shorter really helped with the pacing early on but nearly halfway through, The book comes to a grinding halt and becomes another slow and tough to finish read. This isn't an insult to the characters or the plot. It just gets boring and it's tough to read more than a few pages at a time before getting sick of it.I do . I love J. K I love J.K. Rowling's beautiful command of the language, the pictures she paints and the way she weaves the plot of a story; I love Cormoran and Robin and how their relationship builds and matures. I didn't love the story. I found it tedious and by the time it ended, I really didn't care "whodunnit".
When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before A compulsively listenable crime novel with twists at every turn, The Silkworm is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant, Robin Ellacott.. At first, Mrs. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a new mystery from Robert Galbraith, author of the number-one international best seller The Cuckoo's Calling. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives - meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced. When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in privat