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Death Of The Lit Chick (2009)

by G.M. Malliet(Favorite Author)

3.44 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Midnight Ink

series

A St. Just Mystery

review 1: This was an okay mystery novel. It wasn't one of my favorites. It took about 100 pages to finally get the death that is mentioned in the synopsis. The first 100 pages is kind of just a filler of back stories. It wasn't a thrilling lead up to the death either. I did like the writing style and the premise. I also wasn't even close to picking who did it, which I love when that happens. Overall I thought it was decent.
review 2: Ok, I recently read "Wicked Autumn" by this author and found it so terrible I didn't give it one start. This week I donwloaded a more audio books from the library and unknowingly picked another one. About 20 minutes into the book I wondered if I had unwittingly picked the same boring author again. The more I listened the more bored I became... more. I tried very hard to give her another go. But her stuffy, stuck in the 50s style of writing is hideous. It's like all the characters just escaped the 1950s and were transplanted into the 1990s. In effect it's a 1950s novel with email and mobile phones thrown in. Very weak, patronising at best, patriarcial to say the least. It sticks in my ears like the sentence "tho shallt obey your husband" would stick in the throat of a feminist. This author really needs to get with it. Modern people don't talk like this, they don't act like this and the readership that will put up with this stuffy old writing style is about to die out. Noone but a 90+ year old, who is hankering after the "good old times" would really enjoy a book like this. I give just one example: the detective sitting in a restaurant by himself, the by himself is important here, views a woman sitting by herself eating a meal. He then goes through the following thoughts: 1. Her date/male companion/friend (might as well have written chaperone) let her down, "the cad" (most readers under the age of 60 would need a dictionary here to find out what a cad might be). Then he admires the fact that she can eat her dinner without hiding behind a book to distract from the fact she is in a restaurant all by herself eating a meal. Then he is impressed by her poise and self-assurance and wants to draw her. I waited for the author to add: "what heresy, an unaccompanied woman eating a meal by herself?" Must be a witch, or at the very least a woman of poor judgement and loose morals. Let's burn her, or chase the hussy out of town, as we don't want her ilk in our town.The first book I read was bad, the second one didn't make it past a couple of hours of audio book.I cannot recommend this book to anyone other than over 90 year olds and those who like reading with an "old" , and I mean OLD english dictionary handy. I will make sure not to fall into the trap of reading any more of this author. less

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