Title: The Cuckoo’s Calling
Author: Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling)
Genre: Mystery
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Where to get: Amazon!
Goodreads Synopsis:
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.
You may think you know detectives, but you’ve never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you’ve never seen them under an investigation like this.
Review:
The actual story and plotline was interesting enough. I was engaged in figuring out who murdered Lula. That being said, I felt this novel was a bit overstuffed with extra fluff. I think it could have been cut heavily which would have fixed the pacing issues I had with it.
I started this novel in January and didn’t pick it up again until May. I found it hard to get back into it or to even finish it because of the pacing issues. It moved slow, a bit slower than I normally like.
I wasn’t a big fan of the descriptions either. They felt a little out of place with the setting and theme.
Recommendation:
Besides the overall pacing issues and the random descriptions, I felt this was a very interesting mystery. If you like Mystery novels, go for it. If you’re just reading it because it’s J.K. Rowling’s penname, you may want to stick with Harry Potter if Mystery isn’t your cup of tea.
Kaycee Castleman 