Kitty

Very well written, great plot, intelligent.

Great series, lots of doubles entendres, love the inside jokes about writing and publishing. I listened to the book on Storytel. Rory Kinnear is a grrreat performer! His characterisation of Hawthorne as a cruel laconic is such fun.

Absurdly well written, for its kind. Fast paced action from the first line till the last. Not necessarily my favorite protagonist. I like his non- Wyatt books better.

A ridiculous plot.

Witty, but too slow on the action. Read halfway, dnf.

A fun book filled with nice characters. Good plot.

Abandoned at 40%. Possibly because I am not a native speaker - I could not enjoy the dialogue as much as I think I should have. Also kept losing track of what happened to whom.

Yes, Petrie copies Lee Child. Yes, in the crisp and specific style and even in wording. ‘One down', Ash thinks, when he needs to fight 4 assailants. Or 6, I forget.

And the static is a weird phenomenon.

But I am a fan of Childs and I am a fan of Petrie's. There is no better recipe for a mood lift. The story races forward like a hurricane.

I read the second book - Daughters of Night - first, and liked it much better than this one. I find the plot convoluted and the story rather drawn out. It could have been way shorter.

OK series. 3 stars, for the stories are simple. But anyway, medieval surgeon solves crimes. I was more taken by the first few books in the series, as is often the case.

Got only halfway through. I cannot understand why everyone raves about this book.

This one is pretty boring.

An excellent read, great plot, great characters.

This is a boring book, way too long and full of repetition (everyone keeps on thinking the same thing on and on: why can't we prove this crime, where to start?)

I only finished it because it was performed so well.

I don't know what Nesser was thinking.

This is a book that gets better and better - very unusual! It starts out as a thriller but then slowly turns into a feelgood family book. Jen gets a dream opportunity - to repair former mistakes.

Nice worldbuilding, a pity the second half of the book is more or less one big fight.

Damn. I think books should come with a suicide warning. In this sequel, the difficult adopted son dies.

I was taken with this series, which is very well performed on Storytel by Daniel Weyman. But. I had been wondering for 4 or 5 books why Roy and Chloe did not take action to find out what was wrong with their newly adopted 12 year old. I cannot imagine Peter James has lived through such an experience himself. (I have). Parents will seek help.

And then may be half of the book is about his hospital admittance, the shock, the grief, the doctors, repeat 10 times or so, the decision to give up his organs for transplantation (did Peter James get paid for the promotion?), the funeral arrangements.. it goes on and on. And to what purpose?

It's just tearjerking. It serves no purpose in the story.

Anyway. I stopped reading.

Not as surprising as the first one. Way too sugary sweet, too.

Queer novel for teens. Started out great, flatlined after. A little too marshmellowy, I would have thought even at 16. Too much love going on between parents and children. Not much action. Lots of repetition. But a sweet ending.

A little too predictable.

As a retelling of David Copperfield it really hit the mark. Tearjerking and ironic. Demon as a narrator is witty and sassy. I listened to an audiobook performed by Charlie Thurston, who made it even better. Beautifully performed, not being American I don't know about the accents, but it sounded great and emotionally it hit the mark.

Fascinerend verhaal over hoe je als partner van een pathologische leugenaar verstrikt raakt in een slechte droom. Begint heel geestig, wordt langzaamaan beklemmend. Heel geloofwaardig, leest als een trein. Educatief.

Definitely not Disher's best. It got better toward the end.

Quit reading at 80% as the plot was more and more about explaining the (rather unfathomable) plot. Got downright boring.

A love/family story about abuse. Had I known the theme beforehand, I would not have picked it up. But I got some idea of the dilemmas involved. Actually, the book was too long. It slows down after around the first quarter. The rest is a little drawn out.