Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)

944, pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 2020

ISBN:
978-0-316-49896-8
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Troubled Blood is a crime novel written by British author J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The novel is the fifth in the Cormoran Strike series, and was released on 15 September 2020. The story follows private detective Cormoran Strike and his business partner Robin Ellacott as they investigate the disappearance of Margot Bamborough, a doctor who vanished in 1974. The book explores themes of change, loss, and absence, and the changing face of feminism. Upon release, Troubled Blood became a bestseller and won the Crime and Thriller Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards. The novel has been adapted as part of the Strike television series.

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Very limited book actually

I took up on the book because i can't stand the idea that someone can decide what characteristics the killer of a book can or cannot have based on political correctness. I had to read the book and decide for myself.
What amazes me is that people has been criticising the novel for the presence of a male serial killer dressing as a woman ti gain the victims' confidence, and not for the obvious fact that the book is not particularly brilliant literature.
Strike's series is a bit like Harry potter series: funny literature but not particularly good literature. And this last book more so: hundreds of pages to basically dilute the real nature of the novel, ie a romance spiced up as a crime story.
I would not say i did not enjoy reading it as i enjoy reading enticing plots and multiple subplots in mainstream classics like Ken …

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