airdog rated In a Dark, Dark Wood: 2 stars

In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
Nora hasn't seen Clare for ten years. Not since the day Nora walked out of her old life and never …
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Nora hasn't seen Clare for ten years. Not since the day Nora walked out of her old life and never …

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"From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much-anticipated return of Bernie Gunther in a …
The first half of the book felt as if it had been written by someone who was forced to write protesting that he had nothing to write about. I have read most of Kerr's books and liked them very much but this one, at least the first half, twists so much around insignificant content that one wonders why the author is writing at all.
The second half picks up and feels more like getting down to real business but is an honest novel at best.

The lady from Zagreb (2015)
"From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much-anticipated return of Bernie Gunther in a …
The first half of the book felt as if it had been written by someone who was forced to write protesting that he had nothing to write about. I have read most of Kerr's books and liked them very much but this one, at least the first half, twists so much around insignificant content that one wonders why the author is writing at all.
The second half picks up and feels more like getting down to real business but is an honest novel at best.
En général on reconnaît toujours le style d'un écrivain dans ses tournures de phrases, sa manière d'enchaîner les paragraphes, son vocabulaire, etc
Mais ici vraiment l'auteur exagère, il s'agit ni plus ni moins d'un copie-coller de son précédent, exactement la même structure, les mêmes personnages, les mêmes endroits comme la maison isolée louée pour écrire avec le voisin qui se pointe tout le temps.
un effort tout de même !
En général on reconnaît toujours le style d'un écrivain dans ses tournures de phrases, sa manière d'enchaîner les paragraphes, son vocabulaire, etc
Mais ici vraiment l'auteur exagère, il s'agit ni plus ni moins d'un copie-coller de son précédent, exactement la même structure, les mêmes personnages, les mêmes endroits comme la maison isolée louée pour écrire avec le voisin qui se pointe tout le temps.
un effort tout de même !

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I would qualify the book as passable at best. The plot is not uninteresting, well developed but the writing is a bit naive, as it written by a teenager. The sentences are awkward as if the author is writing an essay for the first time.

Don't look back (2005, Harcourt)
I would qualify the book as passable at best. The plot is not uninteresting, well developed but the writing is a bit naive, as it written by a teenager. The sentences are awkward as if the author is writing an essay for the first time.