Product Details:
Softcover book. 325 pages.
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Source: book pile, free book picked up somewhere
My Review:
I was looking forward to reading this book as I enjoy "the No.1 Ladies' detective Agency". I do. This book well... all the issues in the book, but one, seemed to be addressed, but they all ended so sadly that it felt like a total waste of my time.
I wanted SOMETHING to end well and nothing did.
Very depressing.
Mind, the book kept me interested up until the last couple of chapters when I started to realize this was not going to end well.
The characters are well-written, Domenica, Angus, Big Lou and Ian sounded like great characters to meet. Pat sounded like a young adult figuring out who she was, Matthew just a bit of a lost soul and Bertie I just want to give him a train set. But overall.. What a colossal waste of time.
Now.. if you like reading books with well-developed characters where you understand how they are thinking and how that influences their behaviours, this would be a great book to read. I did enjoy watching the interactions between the various members of the apartment at 44 Scotland Yard. You get some good neighbours and you get some hmm... well "interesting" neighbours.
Softcover book. 325 pages.
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Source: book pile, free book picked up somewhere
My Review:
I was looking forward to reading this book as I enjoy "the No.1 Ladies' detective Agency". I do. This book well... all the issues in the book, but one, seemed to be addressed, but they all ended so sadly that it felt like a total waste of my time.
I wanted SOMETHING to end well and nothing did.
Very depressing.
Mind, the book kept me interested up until the last couple of chapters when I started to realize this was not going to end well.
The characters are well-written, Domenica, Angus, Big Lou and Ian sounded like great characters to meet. Pat sounded like a young adult figuring out who she was, Matthew just a bit of a lost soul and Bertie I just want to give him a train set. But overall.. What a colossal waste of time.
Now.. if you like reading books with well-developed characters where you understand how they are thinking and how that influences their behaviours, this would be a great book to read. I did enjoy watching the interactions between the various members of the apartment at 44 Scotland Yard. You get some good neighbours and you get some hmm... well "interesting" neighbours.
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