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The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)

Robert Galbraith

Start date: January 6, 2015

Finish date: January 7, 2015

Why we're reading this: 01 - more than 500 pages
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Sep 10, 2014 Rae rated it it was ok

Shelves: mystery, 2014

Book 2 in the Cormoran Strike mystery series written by J.K. Rowling. Strike and his assistant, Robin, enter the convoluted literary world when an infamous author disappears.

I love Galbraith/Rowling's two characters (Robin and Strike) but I just got so TIRED of the constant swearing and bizarre sexual themes. I can appreciate that she's a craftsman and all, but...I'm getting too old for some of that rot!

I will continue keeping an eye on this series and will probably skim-read them, but won't be ...more

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Jan 09, 2016 Nadine in NY Jones rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery, detective-mystery, audio, best-audiobooks

I loved the experience of this book, I loved spending time with Cormoran Strike and listening to Robert Glenister ... but I'm not so sure how I felt about the mystery. There were plenty of clues, and I did have an inkling of what it was, but Strike never acted like he was thinking what I was thinking. It was misleading, and some key clues were not shared with the reader until the end; so this isn't the kind of mystery that you can try to solve before the detective.

The author is Galbraith, but w ...more

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Dec 19, 2014 Heather Wescott rated it really liked it · review of another edition

JK Rowling can write a good mystery, even if she needs to do it using a male pseudonym. I really enjoyed the first two books in this series, and hope she writes a few more!

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