"The Spare Man" by Mary Robinette Kowal (BR)

[Ryan]

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[Meredith]

I read this last fall and really enjoyed it. Definitely interested to hear what other folks think about it.

[Silvana]

30%. I feel bored. Nothing really interesting happened so far. Hope it gets more exciting by halfway....The Westie was the most exciting part. I might need to get one, they are beyond cute.

(view spoiler)[Tesla kept thinking about her powerful name and position but it did not really translate well to her situation, so far. But I guess if things were easier for her then the novel would be a novella. (hide spoiler)]

[Ryan]

I thought this was a fairly run of the mill whodunit, but with what's starting to appear as MRKs trademark cringe inducing sex jokes.

A generally 'meh' 3 star read on completion, though I read it again to see (view spoiler)[if there was any foreshadowing or clues that we as readers could have used to solve the mystery ourselves and... nope. I'm not sure if it's a copout that MRK didn't leave any. Lots of mystery writers do the same. I often feel like it's depriving me of a reason to intelligently engage with the work rather than just being a passenger quietly waiting to get to the end.
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