The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2) in Around the World in 80 Books

Dec 26, 2014 Sarah rated it liked it

Shelves: whodunnit, audio

3.5 stars. Took a bit to get into, but once it got going it was really fun.

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

Shelves: audio, detective-mystery, mystery, 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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Jun 10, 2014 Astrid Lim rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary, british, thriller-mystery, series, twist

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 ...more

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Aug 18, 2014 Jessica rated it really liked it

Shelves: england, mystery, borrowed-from-mom

I'm really enjoying this series, and I'm especially drawn in by how Rowling uses the rich-texture skills honed over her non-pseudonymous work into a contemporary real-world setting. She puts forth just enough red meat about the milieu of publishing (similar to how she sent up celebrity culture in The Cuckoo's Calling) to feel like you're being tipped off by an insider, but wisely lets her characters run with the entirely fictional insider hatchet jobs.

What intrigues me most of all, though, is h ...more

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Dec 28, 2014 Andy Plonka rated it really liked it

Shelves: src

Though I love Cormoran and Robin and the ancillary characters I felt the plot came to an unfulfilling end, though maybe she is just saving more for the next book. I hope so.

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Feb 12, 2015 Windy rated it it was amazing

I really enjoyed this second installment of the series. Learned a bit more about Strike and Robin. There were a lot of suspects and I got confused at times.

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