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A review by scarletine6
A Man of Some Repute by Elizabeth Edmondson
3.0
I stuck with this book ONLY because the narrator was Michael Page, who did such an amazing job on Scott Lynch's novel "The Lies of Locke Lamora" and his Gentleman Bastard series.
"A Man of Some Repute" was clunky and i could not connect with any of the characters. The author had a nasty habit of putting gesture into dialogue. (This is my own example to illustrate)
" I need my spade. Where's my spade. I'll just go over here and pick up my spade. I'm holding my spade"
People don't speak their movements and gestures. It was so annoying and sounded like the dialogue was from a British early learning 'Peter and Jane' children's book.
Anyway, what evolved was a bog standard murder mystery with a post war theme. I didn't feel it was well plotted at all, and the characters were either cartoonishly beastly or quite pedestrian. There were the stereotypes of :Hugo- a man with an injury and secrets who worked at 'The Hall' as a 'statistician', Freya- a spinster writer who threatens the status quo by not conforming with her parents wishes. Then there were the additions of an overtly camp gay couple who ran the village tea rooms. They were of course gossipy and the center of the village grapevine.
2 stars for the story and an extra star for Michael Page's narration.
"A Man of Some Repute" was clunky and i could not connect with any of the characters. The author had a nasty habit of putting gesture into dialogue. (This is my own example to illustrate)
" I need my spade. Where's my spade. I'll just go over here and pick up my spade. I'm holding my spade"
People don't speak their movements and gestures. It was so annoying and sounded like the dialogue was from a British early learning 'Peter and Jane' children's book.
Anyway, what evolved was a bog standard murder mystery with a post war theme. I didn't feel it was well plotted at all, and the characters were either cartoonishly beastly or quite pedestrian. There were the stereotypes of :Hugo- a man with an injury and secrets who worked at 'The Hall' as a 'statistician', Freya- a spinster writer who threatens the status quo by not conforming with her parents wishes. Then there were the additions of an overtly camp gay couple who ran the village tea rooms. They were of course gossipy and the center of the village grapevine.
2 stars for the story and an extra star for Michael Page's narration.