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A review by pgpeach
Little Bones by Sam Blake
2.0
I'm fairly new to the detective genre of books, but I still felt this book was lacking in many ways. The positives of this book was the arc of Emily and Tony, I understood Tony's weariness to adopt, knowing there would be a chance of some mental disability, and it did warm my heart to watch him overcome this fear.
However, I found the book very tedious to read. The writing style just didn't capture me, and the change in perspectives killed the tension for me. An example of this was when Cathy suspects Zoë for committing the infanticide, but then not too long after we cut to Zoë's perspective, wondering who could've killed the child. Another issue was that we figured out who the killer was way too early - even if he wasn't the infanticide murderer, it was obvious he was heavily involved - To see from Angel's perspective made me wonder why I was reading this book, as we already read about a killer and their movements ten chapters in? If we saw from only Cathy's perspective, or a group of people that were all part of the Gardai, or proven innocent at the start, it could've worked better.
The characters I never really connected with. None of them had anything that really stood out about them, and their dialogue was rather bland, and it felt at times lines could be swapped around and nobody would've notice the difference. The characters that ended up the victims, i.e. Grace and Zoë, were both airheads and came across as vulnerable, but I couldn't find much sympathy for either of them. Trish was the only one who did stand out, but that was because she was, in the only way I can put it, a complete cow.
The ending left me extremely unsatisfied, but I do not desire to read the next book, as it took me a good while to finish the book already, and I did not enjoy myself while doing so.
However, I found the book very tedious to read. The writing style just didn't capture me, and the change in perspectives killed the tension for me. An example of this was when Cathy suspects Zoë for committing the infanticide, but then not too long after we cut to Zoë's perspective, wondering who could've killed the child. Another issue was that we figured out who the killer was way too early - even if he wasn't the infanticide murderer, it was obvious he was heavily involved - To see from Angel's perspective made me wonder why I was reading this book, as we already read about a killer and their movements ten chapters in? If we saw from only Cathy's perspective, or a group of people that were all part of the Gardai, or proven innocent at the start, it could've worked better.
The characters I never really connected with. None of them had anything that really stood out about them, and their dialogue was rather bland, and it felt at times lines could be swapped around and nobody would've notice the difference. The characters that ended up the victims, i.e. Grace and Zoë, were both airheads and came across as vulnerable, but I couldn't find much sympathy for either of them. Trish was the only one who did stand out, but that was because she was, in the only way I can put it, a complete cow.
The ending left me extremely unsatisfied, but I do not desire to read the next book, as it took me a good while to finish the book already, and I did not enjoy myself while doing so.