[1YJ]≫ Descargar The Cuckoo Calling A Cormoran Strike Novel Robert Galbraith Books

The Cuckoo Calling A Cormoran Strike Novel Robert Galbraith Books

Download As PDF : The Cuckoo Calling A Cormoran Strike Novel Robert Galbraith Books

The Cuckoo Calling A Cormoran Strike Novel Robert Galbraith Books

Oh boy, quite possibly the worst book I’ve ever managed to finish reading; I only finished it because it is the book of the month for our book club at work. Galbraith (Rowling) writes beautiful passages at times but describing every person and scene in intense detail does not make a great book.

What is lacking for 350 of the 400+ pages is any kind of plot development. A private eye novel should build suspense and constantly have the reader wondering what the next clue means. Instead we follow Strike the protagonist through a series of meetings that lead to no conclusions and no questions for the reader to ponder beyond “why am I reading this book?”

Rowling should stick with a Harry Potter, that series was excellent.


Tags : Amazon.com: The Cuckoo's Calling (A Cormoran Strike Novel) (9780316206846): Robert Galbraith: Books,Robert Galbraith,The Cuckoo's Calling (A Cormoran Strike Novel),Mulholland Books,0316206849,Crime,Mystery & Detective - General,Afghan War, 2001- - Veterans,Afghan War, 2001-;Veterans;Fiction.,London (England),Murder - Investigation,Murder;Investigation;Fiction.,Mystery fiction,Private investigators,Private investigators;England;London;Fiction.,Mystery & Thrillers Mystery,Afghan War, 2001-,Crime & mystery,England,FICTION Crime,FICTION Mystery & Detective General,FICTION Mystery & Detective Private Investigators,Fiction,Fiction - Mystery Detective,Fiction-Mystery & Detective,GENERAL,General Adult,Great BritainBritish Isles,Investigation,London,MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE FICTION,Murder,Mystery & Detective - Private Investigators,MysterySuspense,United States,Veterans,FICTION Crime,FICTION Mystery & Detective General,FICTION Mystery & Detective Private Investigators,Mystery & Detective - Private Investigators,Fiction - Mystery Detective,Afghan War, 2001-,England,Investigation,London,Murder,Veterans,Mystery And Suspense Fiction,Fiction,MysterySuspense,Crime & mystery

The Cuckoo Calling A Cormoran Strike Novel Robert Galbraith Books Reviews

Cormoran Strike is not having a good time of it. His turbulent relationship has come to an end and he's sleeping in his office. He's on the verge of losing that office because business has been tough, and even though Strike could rely on military benefits from the tour in Afghanistan that left him missing one leg, he's determined to make it on his own. A temp agency has just sent him an exceedingly capable assistant named Robin, but he can't afford to pay her and may lose her.

Right on cue, the client of Strike's dreams walks through the door and promises to solve all his problems if he'll look into the apparent suicide of world-famous supermodel Lula Landry. The central mystery is presented as the old 'locked room' scenario as far as anyone can tell, Lula was alone in her apartment and no one could have entered the building, gotten to the third floor, pushed her out the window, and escaped back down to the lobby without being seen by security or the other tenants, who were hysterical over Lula's swan dive. The three other people in the building are all accounted for thanks to their own accounts of what happened, but one of them claims to have heard Lula screaming at someone before the fall--which should be impossible because of all the soundproof barriers between them at the time. It's up to Strike to penetrate the mystery and find out what went on in that building.

You could argue that this novel is overly long and unnecessarily slow, but it only seems that way because so much of the genre is overly concerned with fast pacing and constant cliffhangers. Cuckoo's Calling grabs your attention the old-fashioned way and holds it without any tricks. It feels gratifying. The payoff immense character depth that makes you want to hang in for the sequels. Cuckoo also eschews the 'final twist' formula that has, frankly, become tired. While that presents challenges of its own that don't all work, it makes Cuckoo a refreshing read.

Head to my blog at SupposedlyFun.com for an expanded version of this review.

Grade B
There are flashes of brilliance but for the most part, It's a very slow and drawn out book. The slowness makes it tough to read and you will without a doubt want to put it down several times when reading it because of it. The plot is pretty straight forward for a detective novel although it's certainly not predictable. I really enjoy Strike as a character as well as his assistant Robin. I think the potential is there but Rowling should go back to the drawing board for the next book.

My biggest issue is the book's length. Nearly 600 pages is far too long, Especially when there's quite a bit of filler in it. She should have went for a 400-500 page length instead and it would have make for a much quicker and satisfying read. Hopefully she tries to do that for the next book. And yes I have already bought the next book. Despite my average review, I liked the characters enough to give them another shot.
I read The Cuckoo’s Calling to fulfill the prompt of A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym (in this case, J. K. Rowling) for the 2018 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge.

The first in a series of detective novels, this is the Introduction of Cormoran Strike, a private investigator who has seen better days he’s previously lost half a leg in Afghanistan, loses his longtime girlfriend as the novel begins, is receiving death threats from a former client, and is down to a single client and facing mounting debt.

The arrival of his new temporary secretary, Robin, ushers in a season of change for both of them. Soon, Strike is hired by the brother of a supermodel who famously fell to her death from the balcony of her third-floor flat 3 months prior. Her brother—who also happens to be the brother of one of Strike’s friends who died as a child—offers a great deal of money to Strike to prove Lula’s death was not suicide, but murder.

There are lots of twists and turns in the mystery/investigation, and the prerequisite number of red herrings floating about. I honestly was less impressed by the mystery and its outcome (throwing away things that don’t make sense by way of virtually saying, “Who knows what goes through the mind of a psychopath?” is the sign of a lazy or incompetent author, and Rowling is normally not either) than I was by the characters of Cormoran and Robin, though I did feel a lot more development could have happened with them, but considering the book was already close to 600 pages and the pacing seemed to drag at times, perhaps it is best Rowling/Galbraith saved some for future books in the series.

Based on the strength of the main characters and some of the peripheral ones, I gave this 4 out of 5 stars, and will be picking up the next book in the series to see how these characters continue to develop.
Oh boy, quite possibly the worst book I’ve ever managed to finish reading; I only finished it because it is the book of the month for our book club at work. Galbraith (Rowling) writes beautiful passages at times but describing every person and scene in intense detail does not make a great book.

What is lacking for 350 of the 400+ pages is any kind of plot development. A private eye novel should build suspense and constantly have the reader wondering what the next clue means. Instead we follow Strike the protagonist through a series of meetings that lead to no conclusions and no questions for the reader to ponder beyond “why am I reading this book?”

Rowling should stick with a Harry Potter, that series was excellent.