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Robert Galbraith: The Cuckoo's Calling (Hardcover, 2013, Mulholland Books) 4 stars

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping …

Review of "The Cuckoo's Calling" on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Wasn't a fan of this book. Just sayin.

Much like the authors previous series, it's a great idea & well-written, but mired in awful narrative. It's just an entire book of exposition. A story of someone telling a story. There's a paragraph here & there with a flashback or the protagonist thinking of something unrelated to the immediate events... But for all the nonstop development the characters remain staunchly one-dimensional & the plot just plods along, zombiesque, at you. A little dull, but at least coherent. You could do worse.