Tag: 1 Star Reviews

The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster’s work “one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature.” Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, this uniquely stylized triology of detective novels begins with City of Glass, in which Quinn, a mystery writer, receives an ominous phone call in the middle of the night. He’s drawn into the streets of New York, onto an elusive case that’s more puzzling and more deeply-layered than anything he might have written himself. In Ghosts, Blue, a mentee of Brown, is hired by White to spy on Black from a window on Orange Street. Once Blue starts stalking Black, he finds his subject on a similar mission, as well. In The Locked Room, Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving behind his wife and baby and nothing but a cache of novels, plays, and poems.

This book is a collection of 3 separate modernist variations of detective books named City Of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room. And the reason why I have this book is because a few years back one of my local libraries were selling books for a dollar and since that time this book been laying in my TBR file for years waiting to be read.

To be honest I didn’t have any expectations for this book because I didn’t know anything about other than it being a modernist variations of detective books which take place in New York City.

All of 3 separate books which are in this book are short, and to be fully honest very boring and uninteresting. The first book was very interesting at the beginning but it quickly turned to boredom. And the 2 remaining books were very uninteresting and boring.

While I was reading this book I kept thinking that something needs to happen for me to not fall asleep while reading it. But of course nothing happened in this book, other than drama, poor plot, worse character and being bored to dead.

The writing style here was very mechanical and boring. It felt like I was being a told a story by someone who absolutely hated telling stories and he / she just said whatever came to his / her mind at the moment. In other worst the writing style was very very painful.

The character are really bad here. They had no dept to them, no personality, no opinion and it was really hard to tell them apart because all of the character felt like the same person.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

Detective Fabian Risk’s daughter is in a coma at Helsingborg hospital. It’s Risk’s fault for getting her involved in his last investigation – and the guilt is crippling. A MURDERED BOY. 

This book started of good but it quickly went down the hill for me personally and I just ended up DNF-ing it after like 47%. Which is sad because I personally hate DNF-ing mystery and thriller books. 

The plot here is okay in the beginning but it goes fast to being overwhelming and I personally had super hard time keeping track of everything which was happening and of who was who. 

There are many investigations in this book and the main investigation of this book basically gets thrown to the side for the majority of this book.

For me all of the characters kept blending in together and I just couldn’t tell them apart which was the biggest reason why I DNF-ed this book. 

All of the characters in this book are very weak and it is almost impossible to tell them apart which I already pointed out above. 

The writing style in this book was very weak and I just didn’t like it. It felt like it was written by a fresh author in the game which isn’t true because the author of this book have written multiple books before this one. And this book is the fourth book in a series named “Fabian Risk”. Which might be the reason why I didn’t like this book and why I DNF-ed it. Because beginning a series in the middle is a bad call. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

London, England: Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their failed careers. The “slow horses,” as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can’t be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle—not unusual in this line of work. One thing they all have in common, though, is they all want to be back in the action. And most of them would do anything to get there─even if it means having to collaborate with one another.

Maybe the world of secret agents isn’t for me. Because it was the first book about a secret agent I’ve read and I ended up DNF-ing it pretty fast. 

The plot here wasn’t my type to be honest. I had super hard time trying to get into the plot. My main problem with this plot is that is overly complicated. And the beginning of this book is very very slow. 

The use of acronyms and nicknames was irritating because it was overused and it was super confusing trying yo remember who had which nickname and what these different acronyms meant in this book.

Characters in this book to be honest feel like the same person just using different clothes. There are couple of characters in this book and I just can’t name one of them because I just didn’t care for them and I just couldn’t find myself to even try to like them. 

The main character feels more like a side character because a whole chapter can go by without the main character being even mentioned- 

The writing style here was probably the best part of this book but still I felt like there was something missing here. The writing style here felt over complicated and it felt like it was written as a school textbook rather than a mystery / thriller book

This book is very chaotic and very confusing. I personnel had super hard time trying to focus on the plot which almost didn’t exist in this book. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5