A review by zoemaja
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves

5.0

The peril of watching the BBC series before reading the books is that it takes longer to love the characters because you are constantly comparing them to the TV series characters whom you already love. It took me until about halfway through the book before I realized what the TV series had done, and I am only guessing because I haven't read them all yet, but I think they took the life situation of the main characters as it exists in the later books and just dropped the plots into that - making the shows more about the mysteries and less about the characters' journeys.
But now I am completely hooked and will certainly go on to read all the rest of the books just as soon as I can so I will hopefully be able to confirm if I am right soon.

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