Sunday, February 14, 2021

Putting the Boot in

Putting the Boot inPutting the Boot in by Dan Kavanagh
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Story about...
Sorry, but I have not found any story.
Just some deliberations on troubles of a very average 3rd division soccer club.
There is some glimpse of a criminal affair, but generally it is no attraction for me and in this case I had not enough patience to wait for solution.
Gave up after some 110 pages.

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Thursday, February 4, 2021

The missing hours

The Missing HoursThe Missing Hours by Emma Kavanagh
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

My feeling for this book changed few times.
From curiosity to being annoyed, to despair and willing to stop reading it, to finding funny side of the story and finally to some appreciation of author's effort.
What was funny?
At some stage I came to conclusion that the sister-brother team of detectives are just sloppy bureaucrats, who are spending time on reading irrelevant stories.
Actually I was wondering - what they were doing all that time?
There are numerous mentions how late it is, how tired and hungry they are, but not a hint what actually they were doing all that time?
Another point was, that I got impression that they missed few essential steps in their investigations and it looked to me that certain Olivier, who expected to be promoted to position now taken by one of main characters, woud have done the job much better.
I have to acknowledge lots of effort of the author to make the story very complicated and confusing. She succeeded - I was confused and had no will to go back and verify and cross reference facts and events.

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