Tuesday, 2 June 2020

Lawrence Block - If You Can't Stand The Heat


Rating: 3/5

Review:
A so-so short story

Hmmm. This is a short story which took me about 15 minutes to read. It’s very decently written and certainly readable, but I’m not sure it really had much content above a couple of mild surprises. The predatory female is always a difficult area and I thought this hovered dangerously on the borderline with misogyny.

Lawrence Block was recommended to me, but I’m not sure this was the right place to start. I’ll probably try some more of his books because the writing is good – including the next in the Kit Tolliver series to see where it goes – but this only gets a rather lukewarm recommendation from me.

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