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Oct. 23rd, 2011 04:26 pmSo. I mentioned that when I asked for mystery recommendations, Mom told me I should read Elizabeth George's Inspector Lynley books, right? So I got the first one of those and have just finished it.
It's not a bad book. The mystery was indeed mysterious and I think the two main characters will be interesting once they get the hell over themselves. And writing itself isn't bad (except for some irritating-to-me purple bits during sex scenes).
It's just that mystery novels are one of my comfort genres, as I think they are for a lot of people. And thus, while I do expect murder in a mystery novel, I am pretty much not on board for other horrible things. So I am finding myself a little discomfited by this book.
Guys, the solution to the mystery in the first Inspector Lynley novel is ( spoilers and also triggering content. ) Which is pretty much not something I really want to encounter anywhere, let alone in a book that's meant to be a fun comfort read. (Also, the book is chock-full of some very unpleasant descriptions of a fat character and there is a totally random drive-by scene of antiziganism right at the beginning.)
I think I am going to retreat back Nero Wolfe.
It's not a bad book. The mystery was indeed mysterious and I think the two main characters will be interesting once they get the hell over themselves. And writing itself isn't bad (except for some irritating-to-me purple bits during sex scenes).
It's just that mystery novels are one of my comfort genres, as I think they are for a lot of people. And thus, while I do expect murder in a mystery novel, I am pretty much not on board for other horrible things. So I am finding myself a little discomfited by this book.
Guys, the solution to the mystery in the first Inspector Lynley novel is ( spoilers and also triggering content. ) Which is pretty much not something I really want to encounter anywhere, let alone in a book that's meant to be a fun comfort read. (Also, the book is chock-full of some very unpleasant descriptions of a fat character and there is a totally random drive-by scene of antiziganism right at the beginning.)
I think I am going to retreat back Nero Wolfe.
