Reviews

Never Apologise, Never Explain by James Craig

baya_111's review

2.0

The main character is really not interesting or a nice person. It made the story frustrating to read.

domkaxz's review against another edition

1.0

1/10
300 stron o niczym, główny bohater nudny i moim zdaniem dość nie kompetentny w swojej pracy, którą chce po porostu odpykać, wstawki historyczne zdecydowanie zbyt rozwlekłe i nużące, wątki nie rozwinięte w żaden ciekawy sposób. Szczerze mówiąc to tak na prawdę pojęcia nie mam o czym była ta książka. Jak dla mnie treść opisu z tyłu książki jest bardziej treściwa niż ona sama.

audreyintheheadphones's review

3.0

These books continue to be very heavy on the London details, almost to the point of painfulness ("After cutting down Henrietta Street, he led Joe at a brisk pace through Covent Garden piazza and up Endell Street in the direction of Bloomsbury. A little more than five minutes later they arrived at Ridgemount Mansions"). Almost, but not quite.

Inspector Carlyle continues to be painfully boorish, this time to the point of

ignoring a colleague's request for help, leading to their death (which Carlysle assures us was entirely not his fault, and besides, he never feels like deaths are his fault, so whatever, Bernice).

What makes it interesting is the way Carlyle skirts both sides of the law with zero a blip of conscience. It's an interesting contrast to say, the Logan McRae series, where Logan does a lot of hand-wringing about even being seen with a known criminal. Carlyle does not give a monkey's. He sees the necessity for consorting with criminals and bending laws to get results as entirely necessary and worthwhile.

It's certainly interesting.

Content note: contains scenes of explicit torture.