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No plot development or suspense.
Oh boy, quite possibly the worst book I’ve ever managed to finish reading; I only finished it because it is the book of the month for our book club at work. Galbraith (Rowling) writes beautiful passages at times but describing every person and scene in intense detail does not make a great book.
What is lacking for 350 of the 400+ pages is any kind of plot development. A private eye novel should build suspense and constantly have the reader wondering what the next clue means. Instead we follow Strike the protagonist through a series of meetings that lead to no conclusions and no questions for the reader to ponder beyond “why am I reading this book?”
Rowling should stick with a Harry Potter, that series was excellent.
