Thingamy Take 2 - Flame's Book

[FlamesparodyOfAChristmasName]

Ello

The genre may not be to everyone's taste I know. I like the fact that they are UK based, and I like the general main character. I went with the first one in the set of him because a) it helps to start at the beginning if you want to continue reading them and keep the subplot etc and b) I love the idea behind it, the whole not wanting to murder people but how much more was to it.

This is my style of book - infact I have read it before and all that follows , so I enjoyed reading it again, although I kept remember bits far too easy.

I love crime, thrillers and all that sort of stuff.

I was annoyed when CSI NY started and one of the first eps had the same storyline, spoilt it knowing the motive that early on.

Ooh, was this the first in the series?? That explains something about last year's books: someone put one of his in the swap, and I enjoyed it but was irritated by the amount of time it spent referring to backstories from other novels. I thought this one did much better.

I was totally gripped by this - finished in a couple of days, took it everywhere with me. I know the plot was slightly farfetched and one or two of the characters a little bit 2D, but wow he can keep it moving! And I thought that device of having passages in an unidentified third person, so you're never quite sure whether you're hearing the killer or someone else speaking, worked really really well - created a great atmosphere of murky ambiguity.

Thanks so much for picking this one - it's the kind of book I never buy for myself, yet I REALLY enjoyed it

Ooh never got that one last year!

Loving that we have at least 2 books floating round this year by authors we had last year, sent by different people

Well I read this quite quickly, and liked the premise, but found the characters a bit thinly drawn, so I couldn't fully believe in them. I never really read books like this, and I did enjoy it on the whole. Found the ending a bit silly though, and not uber exciting.