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Claire DeWitt And The Bohemian Highway (2013)

by Sara Gran(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0547429339 (ISBN13: 9780547429335)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

series

Claire DeWitt mysteries

review 1: "I took a bump of cocaine" "I took two bumps of cocaine" "I found a bottle of percocet in his medicine cabinet, took two, and then pocketed the bottle." "I did a line." Etc. etc. The endless drug use of Claire DeWitt begins to be laughable. And Claire can't seem to say anything without qualifying it. "Maybe it was even the truth; I don't know; I was too f**ked up to care. I took a bump of cocaine." Okay, I'm not actually quoting the book, but the character of Claire DeWitt which starts out as intriguing ultimately becomes very boring and repetitive. It reads more like a send-up of noir crime novels than an addition to the genre. I was looking forward to this book based on a good review on NPR but I was finally very disappointed.
review 2: Love. Oh man when ... morewill there be more? Read it in a weekend (and I did other things on this weekend, promise). Claire is like my spirit animal. Some passages so compelling I even wrote them in my journal (oh man that sounds so lame). But there are very few mysteries that make me do that. The meditation on guitar players (its the second thing, Claire), and the vulture dream. Wish there were dozens of the series. less

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