LETHAL WHITE BY ROBERT GALBRAITH
These are my thoughts on JK Rowling’s fourth book, Lethal White, in the Cormoran Strike series written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Having finished it a word that comes very easily to mind is ‘complex’ and it is.
Okay, the story follows on from the first three book and my advice is to read them in order they were published in. I like the two main characters, Strike and Robin. I like the way that JK writes about them and you may have seen the TV vision of them and I think they nailed them bang on too.
The main characters are not perfect and their ‘foibles’ are exploited which makes them have sharp edges. I liked that. The other participants all have depth and bring so much more to this book. These characters and the locations she uses are what drives the weaving of her threads. It is most certainly about people and which thread will be the most interesting. A question I asked when I was only a quarter way through.
The locations should be familiar to many with Parliament, Lancaster House, Soho but maybe not so, some salubrious streets included in the text. I enjoyed knowing where the detectives actually were, but having no knowledge of London does not detract from the telling.
Corm’s stump and the prosthetic is a recurring problem for him as he tends to do as much with one good leg as most people would contemplate doing with two. It is frequently mentioned and although it is mildly irritating it fits with the man and his past. Of course, it is topical to.
Lethal White ís a tome and consequently it is long in the telling. In 647 pages there are descriptions of places and incidents and it still moves forward at a pace. It is not a book to casually pick up, to put it down for a while and carry on again. It is one helluva read.
It is wrapped up very neatly in the end, but attention is required as it is complex.
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