![]() ![]() So what should you expect from the Strike series? Firstly, and it’s not for everyone, the series has LOADS of dialogue. You never know.įinally with Lethal White, the currently latest novel in the series, the book takes a much more political turn, doing away with the dark dingy areas of the London setting and settling more into an upper class elitist (though dangerous and scandalous) world of parliament, exploring many themes of misogyny, supremacy and right and left wing rivalry. She’s unremarkably talented, and it overjoys me to know I live in a time where she exists, where I can follow her work with her, hoping one day she may in fact read this. But the main reason would always come down to J.K. In fact I was almost gutted with the fourth book (which was far too new) as it was not yet a paperback to match my appropriately worn charity books. An absolute bargain for what I was getting myself into. I had picked up the first three novels in a charity shop for five quid. I just found out that Robin…’ …But I won’t spoil it for you. I was actually feeling bad for a fictitious person! It was as though my subconscious had genuinely made me believed I had come to know the characters, almost to the point where their problems had become my own. It took a moment for me to really understand why she was asking me this. In fact at one point during Lethal White, my mum turned to me and asked me why I was so miserable. They are so well fleshed out, and so believably flawed and motivated in their own right you can’t help but get lost with them, almost to the point where you also know them. Rowling is an absolute master when it comes to character. Firstly, and it’s something that crops up in many of my reviews, are the character development. I’m here to review the series, so far, as a whole, and why I love it so much. Each case more challenging than the previous, and each book delving deeper into both the characters of Cormoran and his partner Robin, a young lady who aspires to be like Strike himself, a detective.īut I’m not here to talk about each book individually. He’s, like many of Rowling’s (Pen name Robert Galbraith) wonderfully written characters, truly flawed, and comes with many traits we as readers can relate to.Įach book is centred around a different case, generally containing some sort of murder, as many crime books are I’m sure. So what are these books about? Who is Cormoran Strike? Well, Strike is a private detective working in London. This will be a series review, if you’d like to read the individual reviews for each book, click on the links imbedded in the titles above so you can have have a read of them. Ha! First we have The cuckoo’s calling, followed by The Silkworm, then Career of Evil, and finally, so far, Lethal White. So I’ve just noticed the books are not in the right order above. Here is the series review so far of the amazingly written Cormoran Strike Novels – A crime series with depth, mystery and heart. ![]() ![]() 2345 pages of Galbraith/ Rowling excellence. ![]()
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