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Happy World Book Day everyone! May you spend many hours curled up on the armchair with your favourite book.
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(Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn)
My pal's working her way through his latest 'A Tap On The Window', so I'm holding out for that after she's done.
I'm a happy girl when I discover an author I love reading. Although I have a habit of devouring every book I can find written by them, sickening myself, and then moving on...
I love Tess Gerritsen and Nicci French as well.
Nicci French make a great team and I've enjoyed many of their books. I've yet to try Tess Gerritsen, but am sure I will in future.
Peter's producer (a woman) has sent him home with someone she enjoys, Jo Nesbo.... she thinks I'll like it. Anyone read any?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6891433-the-leopard
Just found two of my reviews for Jo Nesbo books!
3 stars
I love thrillers generally, but this author didn't do it for me...nor, coincidentally, did Steig Larsson.I have to say that by the second half of the book I was enjoying it more, but my concentration lapsed a lot at the beginning. I have another Jo Nesbo to read, so I'll see if he grows on me. I tend not to enjoy books so much when the names are foreign as I forget who's who. I took some time to take the name 'Harry Hole' seriously.
3 stars
Jo Nesbo certainly weaves a tight plot and, by the end, has secured every loose thread. For me, however, there are too many characters...and certainly too many beginning with the initial 'K', which, when I was reading late at night, tired and with reduced concentration, began to confuse me! I don't know how much more Harry Hole can take after this episode. At the beginning of the book he is already a drug-addicted alcoholic with a digital omission and by the end there are even fewer working bodily parts. I don't feel inclined to read a third Jo Nesbo. For me, it was only a page-turner in a few places.
I now have a buckling shelf full of Jo Nesbo books and my mum keeps asking when I'll be getting started on them. I'll have to tell her eventually. 8-|