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Better than the first one, and a fabulous audiobook. Highly recommend listening to these vs. reading in print!
I love this series. The writing is impeccable and mysteries well done. I do think this one dragged a bit in the middle, but otherwise really enjoyed it.
This is another book that I found via our library's "Lucky Day" collection (high demand books available first come/first served with a shorter checkout). As with Cuckoo's Calling, I enjoyed Cormoran Strike. He reminds me of a gruffer, more damaged version of Lee Child's Jack Reacher. I enjoy these books as much for his character as for the story. In fact, I found the storyline in The Silkworm a bit distasteful in places - too gory and sensationalistic - but there were certainly twists and turns
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Bingo - Borrowed from a friend (my sister). 3-1/2 stars. I liked this a lot; the plot was entertaining, the characters were interesting, it held my attention (I stayed up way past my bedtime to finish it), Cormoran Strike and Robin are an engaging team, and I didn't figure out who did it. But it didn't hold quite the same charm that Cuckoo's Calling did. I hope the next installment gives us more Cormoran and Robin...and less all the other weirdos!
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Although I quite enjoyed The Cuckoo's Calling, the first Cormoran Strike novel, I feel like Rowling has really settled into this new genre with The Silkworm. She has better developed the recurring characters (Strike and Robin particularly, but also the peripherals of their families and friends), and the plot intricacies are well-planned and delivered. I suspect that the "theme" of these novels will always be Strike being "plunged into a world outside of his norm," but it fits the unpredictable w
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Second mystery in the Strike series. Like the first book, I was more interested in the personal life of Strike and his relationship with his assistant Robin, than in the mystery. Strike is hired by Leonora Quine to find her missing novelist husband, Owen, an unsuccessful author. Quine is later found murdered in a grotesque fashion based on the plot of his most recent, unpublished novel. All the characters involved in crime and the publishing world were unlikeable and many were grotesque.
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I love Cormoran Strike and I was so excited to read his next adventure. The premise is interesting: a writer is dead because he wrote lots of bad secrets about real people in his next book. The gory details, dark secrets and mysteries, are really promising. But somehow there's something amiss here. The complicated details are slowing down the plot, and although I'm happy that Galbraith took time to develop the characters (including relationship between Cormoran and Robin), some of the red herrin
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Another good one.
Great!
So much fun, in part because it seems like Galbraith/Rowling had fun writing it.
Jun 25, 2014
David Abrams
marked it as to-read
Dec 29, 2014
Laura Watkins
marked it as to-read
Apr 03, 2016
Lisa
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May 01, 2017
Erika
marked it as to-read
