Title:
The Cuckoo's Calling
(Cormoran Strike #1)
The Cuckoo's Calling
(Cormoran Strike #1)
Author:
Robert Galbraith
★★☆☆☆
2 out of 5 stars
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.
Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.
Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.
I would like to start this review by saying I am not into mystery books, actually I think this one was my first of the genre (maybe?) so that might have influenced me a little, although if I am to talk about influences I have to admit me knowing J.K. Rowling was the author, was the only reason why I wanted to read The Cuckoo's Calling.
In my opinion the book has got way too many pages, the plot develops slowly, and I couldn't get to sympathize with any of the characters. I don't know why (maybe because I watch too many crime TV shows?) but I hardly get surprised by the unexpected since I tend to see it coming beforehand, and in this case i saw the ending coming halfway through and when I got to the ending I was just yawning and wanting it to be over. Also "luck" was used as an explanation way too many times.
I don't know if I am gonna give The Silkworm a try yet. Maybe I will but only if it has less pages than this one.
In my opinion the book has got way too many pages, the plot develops slowly, and I couldn't get to sympathize with any of the characters. I don't know why (maybe because I watch too many crime TV shows?) but I hardly get surprised by the unexpected since I tend to see it coming beforehand, and in this case i saw the ending coming halfway through and when I got to the ending I was just yawning and wanting it to be over. Also "luck" was used as an explanation way too many times.
I don't know if I am gonna give The Silkworm a try yet. Maybe I will but only if it has less pages than this one.
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