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Alexander McCall Smith: 44 Scotland Street (2005, Polygon) 3 stars

Welcome to 44 Scotland Street, home to some of Edinburgh's most colorful characters. There's Pat, …

Pleasant but forgettable

3 stars

This was very readable, very easy and pleasant, almost cozy to read. It's a little tougher to say that I'll remember it, or see exactly what the point was. I understand that this was a serialised novel, and I could imagine reading it one chapter a day (for some 200 days) and that would be quite nice.

But reading it as a book novel, I struggle to see what the point is? It's almost like a soap opera in written form. That said I did like the character development, it just didn't seem to go anywhere with those developed characters.