From the Bookshelf of Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
Ok so the first half of this book was just terrible, it looked like one of those mid 80 mystery pocket books that I used to stole from my brothers bookshelf full of body images and sexy women and ... lots of other garbage. I cannot even imagine how JK Rolling could have written such a garbage. honestly it took all my love for Harry Potter not to drop this.
As we moved toward the end it got better but still an average book at the best. If you read the rest of them, please tell me that they are bet ...more
As we moved toward the end it got better but still an average book at the best. If you read the rest of them, please tell me that they are bet ...more
I have had this book sitting on my shelf for over 5 years. Finally reading it!
Private detective Cormoran Strike and his temp secretary Robin are hired to look into the alleged suicide of a supermodel in Great Britain.
I loved the characters and their sort of noir/old-school feel. I enjoyed the mystery itself and found the denouement quite satisfying.
What I tired of quite quickly was the Foul (emphasis on that "f") language. Knocking the usage down to once or twice a page (rather than a dozen or so) would have shortened the book by fifty pages.
Not a bad outing for Rowling a ...more
I loved the characters and their sort of noir/old-school feel. I enjoyed the mystery itself and found the denouement quite satisfying.
What I tired of quite quickly was the Foul (emphasis on that "f") language. Knocking the usage down to once or twice a page (rather than a dozen or so) would have shortened the book by fifty pages.
Not a bad outing for Rowling a ...more
I loved listening to this book!!! It kept me interested and I loved the characters. Can't wait to read the next one!!!
...more
Jul 25, 2014
Rachel Stevens
rated it
did not like it
Shelves:
started-but-never-finished,
audiobooks
Gave up on this. Could not get into it.
3.5 stars.
Aug 19, 2013
Beth
marked it as to-read
Aug 29, 2013
Nicole
marked it as to-read
Nov 06, 2013
Stacie
marked it as to-read
Feb 06, 2014
Natalya
marked it as to-read
Nov 18, 2015
yana
marked it as to-read
May 09, 2016
Karli
marked it as to-read
