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The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)

Robert Galbraith

Start date: October 2, 2013

Finish date: October 31, 2013

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Sep 03, 2014 Chris rated it liked it

Shelves: mystery, united-kingdom, fiction, series

In case there was any doubt, JK Rowling is a fabulous writer. I give her credit for putting this out under another name to see how it would do. And it is in a totally different style than Potter or Casual Vacancy. There were a couple times in Casual Vacancy when a certain turn of phrase would sound Rowling/Potteresque, not here. Cormoran Strike is a down-on-his-luck, tough-as-nails, former military police who lost a leg in Afghanistan; a barely acknowledged illegitimate son of a world famous roc ...more

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Jul 29, 2015 JK rated it liked it

Shelves: mysteries

A 3 star rating is somewhat unfair, but yet I can't get myself to rate it 4 stars. JK Rowling is good at creating long flowing descriptions as seen in the Harry Potter series, but that same style in an adult mystery fiction is hard to digest. I ended up skipping several pages all around when I felt it wasn't going anywhere. While long descriptions were great in Harry Potter, which was set in a fantasy world, modern day England really didn't need that help. It made my imagination fall asleep.

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Mar 12, 2015 Jessie rated it really liked it

It started a bit slow but built steadily enough that toward the end I found myself getting frustrated when I had to put the book down. To me, that's a mystery that's doing what I'd hoped for! ...more

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