Peter

The best way to approach this is as a collection of letters. It’s not a “traditional” book with narrative structure and characters being described and fleshed out. It doesn’t have a plot in the normal sense. It’s loosely sci-fi as the background is a time war but at its core it’s prose, it’s following the two characters as they begin to know each other, as their letters to each other take on more depth as the book goes on.

Read it in the spirit it’s intended, two authors constructing a novella, each playing the part if you like of one of the characters. It’s poetry, it’s love letters, it’s a lovely indulgent read. I thoroughly enjoyed this but it won’t be to everyone’s liking.

A decent enough read. The mystery was worked through and the twists at the end definitely caught me by surprise. The characters are sketched out enough you have buy in as the mystery progresses. Having said that, the constant references to the main characters alcoholism was a bit heavy. We get it, he has flaws and demons he’s dealing with, no need to labour the point.

I couldn’t finish this. The pip pip old chap, stiff upper lip and all that tone of the first chapters was too much.

I should have taken the “while it behoved one to help out one’s neighbours when called upon, of course, it was not something a chap actively encouraged” as a warning sign and quit early.

I quite enjoyed this. The slow build through the book plus the broad setup for later novels made this a great read. Although I knew the plot from having watched the show the introduction to the characters meant I wasn’t seeing the actors in my mind.

I enjoyed it but became repetitive. Each chapter was a new investigation but followed exactly the same format. By the time I reached the last few chapters I knew how it would play out.

Each individual chapter is a good short story and enjoyable read by itself. As repetitive chapters not so much.

Similar to the second book, this started out slow with a bit of repetition of plot points. We get the driving force behind the characters motives, you don’t need to restate it every chapter.

Gave this 2.5 stars because it came good and wrapped up the story and threw in an epilogue for good measure. However, as an overall series this should have been two books not three. There were good concepts in book three rushed over whereas book two wasted pages.

The first book was good and set things up for a great trilogy. This second one didn’t progress the story very much at all and could’ve done with tighter editing. There was quite a bit of repetition without moving the plot along.