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The Third Pig Detective Agency (2010)

by Bob Burke(Favorite Author)

3.22 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1906321752 (ISBN13: 9781906321758)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

HarperCollins UK

series

The Third Pig Detective Agency

review 1: I honestly wanted to like this book. I really enjoyed Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crimes and was hoping to find something in that vein. Unfortunately, this book was a mess. It couldn't decide on a tone and swung wildly from noire to slapstick. Pop culture references were inexplicably shoehorned into strange places with no thought to the world the book inhabited. All in all, this book felt sloppy and tried too hard. Very disappointed.
review 2: The premise for The Third Pig Detective Agency is a good one -- take the characters and fables from fairytales and fashion them into detective stories with a noir framing and a dollop of black humour. Jasper Fforde has used the same premise in his Nursery Crimes series. For the most part, the book is a fun read. The story ... moreis cleverly structured, with a well worked resolution. The plot, however, is a little thin in places, with some elements under-played. For example, Edna, the Wicked Witch of the West, is largely reduced to a bit part and the sequence in her domain very linear and too quickly and easily resolved. Moreover, the writing, whilst capturing some of the style of noir fiction, was too often flat and clunky. Nevertheless, it’s a fast-paced, light-hearted, enjoyable story suitable for kids and up and on this outing I’d give the other books a try. less

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