Title: The Silkworm
Author: Robert Galbraith
Stars: ★★★★☆
Blurb: When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days—as he has done before—and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.
But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine’s disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives—meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced.
When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before…
Review:
Okay so I need to clarify that I read this and Career of Evil in the same night (Review of that is coming later) so I apologise if I make any plot mistakes but I’m currently running on zero sleep thanks to a bloody horrible spider that decided to make my bedroom it’s home.
The plotline of The Silkworm is definitely more interesting than The Cuckoo’s Calling. Who doesn’t like a bit of S&M mixed with their murder? (Probably a lot of people really.) However, yet again, the book is long winded and gets bogged down with a lot of unnecessary detail which just makes the book bloated.
Despite my whinging about the bloatedness, I did struggle to put this book down as I needed to know what was going to happen and as to who committed the murder.
Yet again, I was shocked when the murderer was revealed and it’s more believable than in The Cuckoo’s Calling. But like I said in my other review, I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed.
My favourite character, Robin, is still amazing. I love how she’s growing as a detective and is being allowed to do more things for Cormoran. However, she needs to grow a backbone and ditch Matthew because he is a right knob!
Cormoran seems to be lacking in this book slightly too, like there was something odd about his character that I just couldn’t put my finger on. I also found the way he treated Nina pretty rough too and it made me kind of dislike him a bit. If he’s not careful he’s not going to have many friends left either.
Overall, while I found the plot more intriguing than the first book, the characters seemed to lack a bit and there’s still a lot of stuff that could be edited out but yes, I would recommend this one!
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