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srogan88's review against another edition
3.0
3.5*
Spoils the ending of some books I plan to read but haven't read yet, which meant I did some skimming. I also skimmed some of the international section that didn't interest me. I found the section on gender very interesting, as I did their reasoning as to why Scandinavian works are so popular recently.
Spoils the ending of some books I plan to read but haven't read yet, which meant I did some skimming. I also skimmed some of the international section that didn't interest me. I found the section on gender very interesting, as I did their reasoning as to why Scandinavian works are so popular recently.
ceoladaly's review against another edition
2.0
This was quite a let down - I was hoping that this would break down the different subgenres of crime fiction and talk about how they came about, but it seemed instead to be a timeline where the readers knowledge of it was a given. Instead, it kept going from time period to time period and then just talking about the biggest authors and books of the time, seemingly picking these at random sometimes.
While it's useful if looking for the specific authors and books that are influential within the genre, it does little for explaining actual characteristics of them.
While it's useful if looking for the specific authors and books that are influential within the genre, it does little for explaining actual characteristics of them.
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