August books
Sep. 19th, 2016 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
debodacious63Only 2 this month owing to time spent reading holiday guides to Corfu etc.
Sophie Hannah - The Monogram Murders This is the first of her Agatha Christie's Poirot novels and I really didn't like it all. It was purchased on a whim as a Kindle cheapie and began reasonably well but was ultimately dull, confusing and the characters had few redeeming features. Her Poirot is clichéd and lacking any charm. So unmemorable that although it is only a couple of weeks since I read it I can recall little of the plot. Such a disappointment as I have always been a big Christie fan and had high hopes of this.
Ruth Rendell - The Girl Next Door I was also quite a fan of Ruth Rendell (and Barbara Vine) back in the day, particularly the Wexford books, but the quality of her books really went downhill as she aged and I had pretty much vowed not to read any more. The was another cheapo Kindle offer so I succumbed. I did quite enjoy this but it isn't the mystery book I was expecting, more of a kind of OAP chicklit with a bit of criminal activity thrown in. The discovery of some severed hands brings a group of people who had played together as children back into contact and most of the book is about their relationships.
Sophie Hannah - The Monogram Murders This is the first of her Agatha Christie's Poirot novels and I really didn't like it all. It was purchased on a whim as a Kindle cheapie and began reasonably well but was ultimately dull, confusing and the characters had few redeeming features. Her Poirot is clichéd and lacking any charm. So unmemorable that although it is only a couple of weeks since I read it I can recall little of the plot. Such a disappointment as I have always been a big Christie fan and had high hopes of this.
Ruth Rendell - The Girl Next Door I was also quite a fan of Ruth Rendell (and Barbara Vine) back in the day, particularly the Wexford books, but the quality of her books really went downhill as she aged and I had pretty much vowed not to read any more. The was another cheapo Kindle offer so I succumbed. I did quite enjoy this but it isn't the mystery book I was expecting, more of a kind of OAP chicklit with a bit of criminal activity thrown in. The discovery of some severed hands brings a group of people who had played together as children back into contact and most of the book is about their relationships.
