All around a successful second volume

All around a successful second volume

The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike) (Hardcover)

Customer Review

In "The Silkworm" Cormoran Strike has his second appearance. Eight months have passed since the events of "The Cuckoo's Calling" passed, and it is going well for Strike: his services as a private investigator are asked his finances have improved, and he has a new home now also based. In his latest case concerns the writer Owen Quine, who disappeared without a trace. The pugnacious author has just written a very controversial unveiling novel whose publication could earn him several libel suits and ruin the reputation of several people from the world writers. Strike sets out to search for Quine and goes into the world of literature with their capricious artists, enterprising agents, critical and publishers tried to diplomacy lecturers.

Just as "The Cuckoo's Calling" is also "The Silkworm" a classic detective story. Instead breathless action continues the series on solid investigations, believable characters and a very interesting environment. The author is an incredibly good storyteller who manages effortlessly to bring to life places and characters in a short time. Although this is only the second appearance of Cormoran Strike, I had the feeling, reunite with an old acquaintance.

Strike is a very successful character that I really like to like. At first glance, he seems not so exceptional, but turns out to be much tory personality with an interesting past and a very unique view of his work and the people whom he meets there. His assistant Robin complemented him doing very well. Despite meager salary she stayed with him, and after eight months, she is fascinated by the detective work - at heart they would like to own one. The relationship between the two is an important element of the story, and the interaction of the two characters I liked again this second volume.

Who "The Cuckoo's Calling 'liked the like is almost certainly also" The Silkworm ". I personally found this second part even a bit better. It offers everything that has me already fallen at the opening act, but fast-paced and exciting. For a passionate bookworm like me is the special setting of this novel - writers and their environment - very fascinating. The figures, strikes the strike in its investigations, are partly bizarre and often anything but sympathetic. It is highly probable that the author here (even) their own experiences with agents, editors, publishers and fellow writers has incorporated.

Something surprised me the brutality and cruelty of the crime at issue in "The Silkworm". The circumstances are described in all its creepy and extremely gory details - I would not expect in this series. Although something is not quite to my taste, I could live with it here. The cruel and extremely elaborate staging of the crime are here less than shock element, but give clues to the motivation of the perpetrator and it will ultimately - of course - undoing. Because: "You can not plot murder like a novel There are always loose ends in real life.."

The case provides some (more or less) surprising twists, and I was curious to the end, as the whole thing would go out. The big revelation at the end I have feverishly accordingly. I was phased so captivated by the story that I just could not put it down the book / wanted. To my great regret I was therefore finished reading even within a very short time.

It is now widely known, who is behind the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. JK Rowling writes in her thanksgiving in the end about how much fun they had thus to be able, despite selling millions of books to make the experience of an unknown author once again. Robert Galbraith, it would of course have a lot, had a lot more difficult, so fast to find as many readers, and he would have to make do with much less publicity. Nevertheless, I am convinced that an unknown author with Cormoran Strike would have success. The series is just really good and very well worth reading. More please!

Rarely slept so well 2 Rank: 5/5
March 8
Value for money very good 6 1 Rank: 5/5
January 20
recommended partially Rank: 3/5
January 3
super small Spiderman fans Rank: 5/5
August 15
Beautiful coat 2 Rank: 5/5
March 10
A little light 12 Rank: 2/5
December 26

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