Post by adelynechan on Apr 29, 2024 17:50:24 GMT
Decided a sad story like The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein was totally incompatible with my mood recently, so back onto the shelf that one goes. Instead, I decided I needed some blood and gore so read The Noh Mask Murder by Akimitsu Takagi, which I raced through in two sittings. The author has written himself into the story (in a similar way to Anthony Horowitz in his Hawthorne series) which was a cute touch but I thought was underused. Japanese classic locked room mysteries are one of my favourites, this one was solid but just misses full score as I didn't really like the way the "notebook" and "narrative" chapters intertwined - there was some repetition which I thought was confusing in parts.
Then, inspired by visiting an exhibition on murder mysteries at Cambridge University Library, I read Cambridge Blue by Alison Bruce. I do enjoy books set in locations that are familiar to me (even if this one involved dead bodies) and I thought the author wrote that part well. I didn't like the detective though, and there was something fundamental in the plot (that would be a spoiler, so see my GR review if you're interested) that I really didn't get along with.
Not sure what I'm going to read next, though I think it will be more crime.
Meanwhile, on audio, I finished Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson - was okay but I felt it could have been half the length without losing any content. Then I listened to The Getaway by Ross Armstrong, one of those "one killer among xxx guests on an island" type stories that I do enjoy, but felt this one didn't work well on audio as this was a multi-narrator that wasn't sufficiently well distinguished on the audio version, so I was often confused as to whose point-of-view the current chapter was. Then a quick one: Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths by Maisie Chan, a children's book that I found cute especially Danny's interactions with his grandmother!
Now listening to The Wedding Murders by Sarah Linley.
Then, inspired by visiting an exhibition on murder mysteries at Cambridge University Library, I read Cambridge Blue by Alison Bruce. I do enjoy books set in locations that are familiar to me (even if this one involved dead bodies) and I thought the author wrote that part well. I didn't like the detective though, and there was something fundamental in the plot (that would be a spoiler, so see my GR review if you're interested) that I really didn't get along with.
Not sure what I'm going to read next, though I think it will be more crime.
Meanwhile, on audio, I finished Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson - was okay but I felt it could have been half the length without losing any content. Then I listened to The Getaway by Ross Armstrong, one of those "one killer among xxx guests on an island" type stories that I do enjoy, but felt this one didn't work well on audio as this was a multi-narrator that wasn't sufficiently well distinguished on the audio version, so I was often confused as to whose point-of-view the current chapter was. Then a quick one: Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths by Maisie Chan, a children's book that I found cute especially Danny's interactions with his grandmother!
Now listening to The Wedding Murders by Sarah Linley.