Great beginning to a series. ( )

Kind of grim; too introspective for my taste. ( )

This was a really dark mystery, with not much in the way of humor or anything positive. I don't know why I liked it so much, and I'm wondering if I should be worried about it. How can anyone like a book about a deranged serial killer who would purposely want to cripple someone so severely that they can't do anything?

Aside from that, the book was hard to put down, especially toward the end. Lots of suspense, and lots of wondering what was actually going on. If you like dark mysteries, you just might like this one. If you want some uplifting story with a happy ending, I think you'd better move on.

I plan to read some more from this series; I hope they are as good as this one. ( )

Great characterisation but a weak plot made this a bit weak. If I'd read the book I'd have DNF'd, but the audio was strongly performed by Robert Glenister. Guessed the red herring - I'm sure most people would! ( )

Tricky to rate this one but ended up on 2 stars "It was okay". The technical standard of the writing is very high with clear characterisation and vivid description but it just didn't compell me in any way. I would say it was a slog for the most part except it's a very easy read because of how good the prose is. One of those where you tear through the pages but aren't interested once you put it down.

Not sure what the problem was, although it wasn't helped by the amount of the book spent pursuing the red herring who was very obviously so, making our protagonist look kind of like an idiot because he was convinced based on, essentially, nothing. There is an attempt to make "being wrong" into the lesson of the piece for him but it didn't land for me. The final act was where it actually got me compulsively reading to the finish but the overly-theatrical finale felt very out of place and melodramatic compared to the rest of the book. Would I read another? Yes. Would I care if I never did? No. ( )