Rating: 2/5
Review:
Not for me
I read Written In Bones, the latest in this series, and
thought it pretty average with some serious flaws. I decided to give James Oswald one more go
just to see whether I'd missed something.
I hadn't.
I'm afraid I didn't get on with this book at all. Oswald's propensity for cliché in language
plot and characterisation is well to the fore, I found the story pretty
unconvincing and the whole thing just failed to engage me. One of my biggest problems with Written In
Bones was the ridiculous ending, and frankly, Natural Causes puts it in the
shade; it's not just silly, it's plain bonkers in a supposedly serious crime
novel.
So, James Oswald is not for me, it seems. Plenty of others obviously enjoy his work
very much, but personally I can't recommend this.
(I received an ARC via Netgalley.)
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