Unthrilling thriller:

Snowdrops by A.D. Miller

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


Oh dear. How come this made it to the Man-Booker shortlist in 2011? A willfully naive British lawyer in Moscow allows himself to get caught up in a scam that readers can spot coming a mile away. The characters are one-dimensional (narrator included), and the writing is dull. Was its location - a Russia peopled, it would seem, almost entirely by murderers, thugs, prostitutes and fraudsters the factor that got it first published and then recognised? Alas!



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Snowdrops