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Value Read Mar 20 - For Reasons Unknown, by Michael Wood
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rated it 3 stars
Mar 04, 2020 04:02AM
I'll be reading as soon as I finish my current book.
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Just started - so far, so good.
I finished this one. Can’t say it was one of my favourites. Found the work situations to be unrealistic.
I agree with you, Beth, that this book would never pass for a police procedural with so little procedure in it. At times it felt the story was more about Matilda Darke's struggle to regain reality than about the murders, past and present. Jonathan seemed too weak a character throughout the book to be where he was at the end. With the acting DCI also dealing with emotional challenges, the story seemed more about abnormal psychology than solving crimes. Reading this book could easily lead to depression, if you felt its characters represented real folk. Though it was generally well written in style and language use, the author was stingy with commas, making for odd sentences now and then. I'd give it a 3.5 on a 5 scale.
My take on Jonathan is that he wasn't entirely as non-functional as he appeared. He definitely knew what he was doing when the acting DCI questioned him.I rather liked the more psychlogical approach, though I agree that the acting DCI (whose name I still can't remember) was a bit over the top. I'd give it 3.5 of 5 as well.
Erunyauve wrote: "My take on Jonathan is that he wasn't entirely as non-functional as he appeared. He definitely knew what he was doing when the acting DCI questioned him.I rather liked the more psychlogical appro..."
You have to be correct about Jonathan, Erunyauve. I just didn't pick up on the clues to his true nature. He had to be functional to hold the job in the bookstore and do it well.
I found the book interesting, I read the prequel before I read this book so I felt I had a little more background.
Brian wrote: "I found the book interesting, I read the prequel before I read this book so I felt I had a little more background."I didn't know there was a prequel. That sounds interesting. Does it go into Matilda's previous case?
