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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Not Booth's Best Compared with the only other Stephen Booth book that I have read (Blood on the Tongue), this was something of a disappointment. It's one of those massive books (650 pages) within which there is a taut, streamlined - and shorter - novel trying to get out. The characterisation was good, and the loose ends were tied up neatly at the end, but the plotting was somewhat sluggish. A diverting enough read, however, with an excellently realised sense of place.
Puzzling and Frustrating I can honestly say that by the time I'd finished this book, I had not a clue what had happened in it. I'm a careful reader, and I usually manage to follow even the most complicated of plots, but at the end of this novel I didn't know who'd killed whom and why, and nor did I care. I spent some time trying to go over it all in my mind, but I couldn't make it add up, and I can't say I really enjoyed reading this book. There was something drab, squalid and depressing about the writing style, and Ben and Diane,... more info
Another winning novel from Stephen Booth Another winning novel from Stephen Booth. I really enjoyed ONE LAST BREATH and in the 646 pages I thought it was great. For those who haven't read the book I won't give the plot away suffice to say that it really held me. Stephen has always been excellent at descriptions in his novels whether it be the Crime Scene or the descriptions of the Derbyshire Hills. Diane Fry is a really good character and I like her tough no nonsense approach and she really means business in the novel as indeed she has meant... more info
Long, boring, shallow ... I had been told about Stephen Booth some time ago and was looking forward to this the first of his books I've read.
What started off as an anticipated adventure with a new author turned into a boring marathon. A decent editor would have ditched 400 pages and the book would have been much better for it, we certainly wouldn't have been losing any 'purple prose'!
The characters were unsympathetically drawn, and there were too many of them. The 'action' was tedious and the plot tenuous. If this is... more info
