WIJFR: The Cuckoo's Calling (NS)

Jen748 · January 2014

I didn't love this as much as @jackiback but I did give it 4 stars. The first half was S-L-O-W, but everything picked up with about 200 pages left. I read that last chunk in one sitting, I had to know how it all ended up.

The characters were great, and the whole investigation was fun and everything about detective stories I love.

I'm really looking forward to the next one...I hope she's still writing it since her name was released.

mrsvedo · January 2014

I agree that it was slow but enjoyable overall. I think I've said it before, but I was more invested in the characters than the plot in this one. Glad you liked it!

booneybear · January 2014

I was not a fan of this one. I thought it was predictable and boring. I couldn't care less about the who did it or why. I wish I never knew who really wrote it.

RevJen · January 2014

I wound up really liking it too. I think it was a slow build up because of the character development.

jackiback · January 2014

I actually didn't care about the mystery much either, but I just totally totally loved Strike and Robin. I think they were just these fantastically written characters. I kept finding myself thinking that they were real. I just loved them. Enough to give the book 5 stars.

packfan20 · January 2014

I will be the oddball...

I gave this one star. There was nothing entertaining about it. The characters were boring. I knew more from reading the Goodreads summary than I did from reading the first 25% of the book.

It was SO wordy and descriptive and well, boring. Where was the excitement? The suspense? It just plodded along...slowly...painfully... Nothing HAPPENED! A thriller should keep you guessing, on the edge of your seat. The only reason I was on the edge of my seat was because I was about to fall asleep from boredom.

I wish I didn't know who the real author was. By knowing, it appeared to me that she was trying too hard to be a male author. Forgive the stereotype but there was a lot of words/descriptions used that are not typically used by females. It seemed like "Oh, if I throw the f-word in their a few dozen times, then for sure it will seem like a man." There were other words too but I prefer not to repeat them.

I struggled like crazy to get through it.

kpow · January 2014

I really enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to the next one.

jackiback · January 2014

packfan20 said:

I wish I didn't know who the real author was. By knowing, it appeared to me that she was trying too hard to be a male author. Forgive the stereotype but there was a lot of words/descriptions used that are not typically used by females. It seemed like "Oh, if I throw the f-word in their a few dozen times, then for sure it will seem like a man." There were other words too but I prefer not to repeat them.

This made me laugh out loud.

Jen748 · January 2014

packfan20 said:

I will be the oddball...

I gave this one star. There was nothing entertaining about it. The characters were boring. I knew more from reading the Goodreads summary than I did from reading the first 25% of the book.

It was SO wordy and descriptive and well, boring. Where was the excitement? The suspense? It just plodded along...slowly...painfully... Nothing HAPPENED! A thriller should keep you guessing, on the edge of your seat. The only reason I was on the edge of my seat was because I was about to fall asleep from boredom.

I wish I didn't know who the real author was. By knowing, it appeared to me that she was trying too hard to be a male author. Forgive the stereotype but there was a lot of words/descriptions used that are not typically used by females. It seemed like "Oh, if I throw the f-word in their a few dozen times, then for sure it will seem like a man." There were other words too but I prefer not to repeat them.

I struggled like crazy to get through it.

I guess I think that since she was writing from a male perspective that maybe she wanted to write like a male. However, I don't really see how the f-bomb is a male word. I sure use it a lot and I'm all woman.

MJLAFRANCE · January 2014

I loved this book! However my situation was similar to Robin's when I read it so that may have helped speed up the beginning. Still I found it funny and we'll written and I could not stop reading at the end!

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