Reviews

Das Knochenband by Stuart MacBride

laurapf's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

jjmann3's review against another edition

3.0

Stuart MacBride delivers another installment in the Logan McRae series. While a movie is being shot in Aberdeen, a hobo is lit on fire and killed, a cannibis drug war is underway, and a pair of teen lovers go missing.

Dialog in MacBride books is always strong, this one no exception. Though I found some of the middle parts a bit blotched and muddled. It seems like the novel was trying to do too many things at once, a trait I've picked up in the most recent of the series. Nevertheless, readers are left to sympathize with Logan and his personal and professional plights.

Overall a solid "okay." Recommended for readers of the series.

dbevvers63's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

abbienk's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

balthazarlawson's review against another edition

4.0

Another great read about Logan McRae, now an acting DI. At least he wasn't shot or stabbed in this one. Though he isn't really the innocent sort of copper he would like to be and treads a very thin line between right and wrong. This is perhaps not as gory as previous novels but is still violent.

Stuart MacBride has the habit of including three way conversations in novels and at times they can be so very frustrating. This book includes them in they are more than annoying. Having a conversation on the phone while listening to the radio and trying to take it all in. It can be so easy to get lost at times and don't really add to the story.

Well worth a read.

nighthawk921's review against another edition

5.0

Once again I have nothing but good things to say about this book. I read it slowly as my break and reward for trudging through two unlikable book club books. Because of this I'm not sure if the pace of this book was a little slower than previous ones or it was just me. Either way I found it thoroughly enjoyable and, unlike others in the series, I had it partially figured out halfway through.

didactylos's review against another edition

4.0

Very enjoyable, but as it is part of a sequence some of it was very confusing, really needs to be read in order to make sense of what is going on. A different setting to most books of this genre.

historybooksandtea's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

myrdyr's review against another edition

4.0

I can always count on Stuart MacLean for an entertaining read!

chadjames312's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0