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This starts with a bang, when a drunken pallbearer trips and spills a corpse out of a coffin, revealing that 1) it’s the wrong corpse, 2) it’s someone Hannibal knows from his very mysterious past.
The story then slows down considerably for much of its length. Aggravatingly, I kept thinking it would be a Hannibal-centric book, and while plot-wise it is, he’s not on page as much as I expected and the revelations about him were less surprising/interesting than I’d hoped. It has some good moments but a disappointingly low batshit quotient, and a lot of it is Ben doing stuff apart from the rest of the cast, when what I really love is the interaction and relationships between them. Considered on its own, it was a very good novel with a lot of well-done thematic stuff, but I didn’t love it as much as the last couple books that had more hurt-comfort and punching alligators in hurricanes.
I also found one plot element extremely frustrating.
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Dead and Buried (A Benjamin January Mystery Book 9)
The story then slows down considerably for much of its length. Aggravatingly, I kept thinking it would be a Hannibal-centric book, and while plot-wise it is, he’s not on page as much as I expected and the revelations about him were less surprising/interesting than I’d hoped. It has some good moments but a disappointingly low batshit quotient, and a lot of it is Ben doing stuff apart from the rest of the cast, when what I really love is the interaction and relationships between them. Considered on its own, it was a very good novel with a lot of well-done thematic stuff, but I didn’t love it as much as the last couple books that had more hurt-comfort and punching alligators in hurricanes.
I also found one plot element extremely frustrating.
( Read more... )
Dead and Buried (A Benjamin January Mystery Book 9)
