09-06-2011, 09:24 AM
It's like you walked in on the middle of a conversation and you are trying to catch. And the story teller has no compunction about rambling on with back story and flash backs.
Jackson Brodie comes in by name about a quarter of the way through the book. Once again he seems to be flitting about in other people's story. Not seems to be. He is. This time Brodie is trying to track down the parents of a girl given up for adoption. His questioning makes people in the town of Leeds very nervous. But there are other stories too. There is the actress suffering from Alzheimer who has plenty of story but not a lot that connects to the main mystery but it does. There are the cops who are running scared from Brodie's question, but there are other murders happening in town. And one of the ex-coppers does something very unusual.
In the end, there are a lot of questions left unanswered. Brodie's mystery is solved but not really by him.
The problem is the books are really well written but they never wrap up neatly. I constantly wonder if there were clues for the mystery that I was supposed to solve and if I was a better reader I would have solved it. Grrrr.
Jackson Brodie comes in by name about a quarter of the way through the book. Once again he seems to be flitting about in other people's story. Not seems to be. He is. This time Brodie is trying to track down the parents of a girl given up for adoption. His questioning makes people in the town of Leeds very nervous. But there are other stories too. There is the actress suffering from Alzheimer who has plenty of story but not a lot that connects to the main mystery but it does. There are the cops who are running scared from Brodie's question, but there are other murders happening in town. And one of the ex-coppers does something very unusual.
In the end, there are a lot of questions left unanswered. Brodie's mystery is solved but not really by him.
The problem is the books are really well written but they never wrap up neatly. I constantly wonder if there were clues for the mystery that I was supposed to solve and if I was a better reader I would have solved it. Grrrr.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit