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I wasn't really sure what to expect with this one - I'd enjoyed the TV adaptation - Oldman's Lamb is a great watch. Would the book stack up or would the show ruin it a bit for me?

I'm glad to say I really enjoyed reading this. Herron's writing is engaging and woven with humour throughout - it speaks volumes that many lines from the show are verbatim from the book.

Reading the text you have the advantage of point of view characters - which you can never quite get on TV. Hassan as the victim was well written giving the book an additional dimension I would say is its strongest point.

I felt the pacing was really good, blasting through some of the "duller" or laboured parts I struggled with in the show.

Keen to continue the series and (hopefully) slowly let them stand on their own merits a bit more.

I thought this started strong, with an interesting cast of characters in an novel combination of situations.

It certainly does a decent job of conveying almost cabin fever energy and feelings of comparisons and being left behind. I found that by the mid point of the book it had become quite undirected - I didn't really gel with the plot as it continued.

I think I enjoyed this more than the first given that the world had already been fleshed out and I knew some of the characters.

Quotable, lyrical, and full of food for thought. Tightly written with intent behind every paragraph.

I think this series is intended to stay a duology, but I'd welcome a couple more...

Everybody has a negative balance from time to time, for lots of reasons. That’s fine. That’s part of the ebb and flow. But if someone had a huge negative... well, that says they need help. Maybe they’re sick. Or stuck.

This was a well written, atmospheric read.

A hunt for a mole inside the British secret service. I'm not sure I paid enough attention to the detail and references to get the most out of this - one for a reread I think.

It's not fast paced, or classically thrilling; it's engaging in a different suspenseful way.

That said, I don't think I'm rushing to read others in the series just now.