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Or The Bull Kills You (2011)

by Jason Webster(Favorite Author)

3.34 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0312581831 (ISBN13: 9780312581831)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Minotaur Books

series

Chief Inspector Max Cámara

review 1: This is the second of Jason Webster's stories about Spanish detective Max Cámara. The setting is Valencia during Fallas, the five-day festival of fireworks and bonfires. A bullfighter is murdered, a controversial bullfighter, in a city undergoing local elections and with a strong anti-taurino lobby. Webster has chosen his setting well, Valencia is a noisy, shouting, breathing presence on every page. The bullfighting is strange, a world of customs and special language, its symbolism machismo. Into the middle of all this walks the Fallas-hating, bullfight-disapproving detective who's having a difficult time with his girlfriend. And he's being reviewed at work for his behaviour in a previous case. Is there one killer or two, and what about the dead bullfighter's artist boyfr... moreiend and his very-public fiancé? Webster keeps the page turning with ease.
review 2: I think it is true that some books you really don't want to put down and can't wait to pick up again. But, for me, this is not one of them. A lot of tell and not show, long passages without dialogue, irrelevant information (the author trying to convince himself, not trusting the reader to be following the plot?) all added to this not being a classic. I am not even sure Camara, the main protagonist, is very much different to a lot of other ficitonal detectives - drinker, smoker, women problems, rebellious - we have had those before - just the setting was new.Preferred his non-fiction. less

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