I started this book in December and finished it in February. I’m also blaming the cover for the first 150ish pages or so being a little slow. It’s just as much a crime as showing up in a green shirt on a Wednesday when you’re supposed to wear pink. You bought three books that find neatly on your shelves and they all sit there looking pretty and THEN comes the new guy with a new outfit and it’s just. I hate it when they change cover designs mid-series. “It was a glorious thing, to be given hope when all had seemed lost.” However, I hope it will be a bit shorter and more intense. I love this series and the author so I can’t wait to read the next one. Off course, JKR added to this mix the personal lives of Cormoran and Robin who are even more tumultuous then in the previous books. The plot is very complex, there are many threads in the plot that do not seem to be connected until the end, as it is written in the blurb it is very ambitious in scope. From here the plot gets more an more complicated, involving politics, blackmail, upper class dynamics and murder. Anyways, after the drama at the wedding the plot moves one year forward when Cormoran’s services are sought by a young, psychotic boy who wants to hire the detective to uncover a hanging he thought he witnessed when he was very young.Īlthough the boy was mentally ill, Cormoran’s instinct tells him that the story is not wholly invented and from the little he got from the youngster’s chaotic mind he manages to identify his brother, a dedicated socialist and activist. Rawling managed to create one of the most irritating characters I’ve ever read that it is hard for me to believe it can be found in real life. The novel starts with the ending of A Career of Evil, namely the wedding between the Asshole and Robin. Rowling talent as a storyteller in so I was never bored but still, the plot could have been a bit more intense with a bit less filler. If this one has 650 pages I hope the next will not have 800 or more. It starts to resemble the Harry Potter series, with each book longer and longer. I think it is the best so far although some parts could have been trimmed by the editor. Lethal White, the 4th volume in Cormoran Strike series, kept me at the edge of the seat/bed during the past 4 days.

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