Once more unto the book dear friends: 2024 reading challenge thread
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belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I picked up The Tenant... and had a flick through. I'll definitely read it at some point
Instead I have plumped for a modern sci-fi classic, no one has read it on this list this year, but otherwise it seems to be one at least one person reads each challenge. I find it hard to believe I haven't read it already.
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This is teasery of the highest order, WE DEMAND THE TITLE
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
you read it last year!This is teasery of the highest order, WE DEMAND THE TITLE
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I reckon it’s parbly Riddley Walker then and sorry for the lack of plomercy in my previous post
PTK
Paul Kegan
I have just given up on a crime novel.
I had been reading it fairly rapidly, and it was quite enjoyable.I could accept the premise that there were some people who were
who had limited telepathic powers, including the detective who comes to London fromPortugal to investigate some murders at the Portuguese Embassy.
who had limited telepathic powers, including the detective who comes to London fromPortugal to investigate some murders at the Portuguese Embassy.
I could accept that some people had telekinetic powers.
However, on page 139 of this book there is a huge plot hole that I could not accept. I read on for about another 50 pages, then gave up.
A woman who was seeking asylum in the Embassy is missing. Her ex-partner, who is not telepathic, flies to London from the USA, and approaches the Portuguese detective one morning outside the block of flats in which she is living while in London. She has information for the detective, and they go to a cafe, where she tells the detective what she knows.
1. How would the ex-partner know that the Portuguese detective had been working with the British police?
2 How would she have known where the detective was living?
She says that she is a journalist, and that she knows of the detective from a previous notorious case that was covered widely in the press. This does not explain how she knew what she knew.
In a plausible story, she would have been arrested and interrogated. There must be a leak in the Met, and she must have been working with the leaker. But not in the story.
A woman who was seeking asylum in the Embassy is missing. Her ex-partner, who is not telepathic, flies to London from the USA, and approaches the Portuguese detective one morning outside the block of flats in which she is living while in London. She has information for the detective, and they go to a cafe, where she tells the detective what she knows.
1. How would the ex-partner know that the Portuguese detective had been working with the British police?
2 How would she have known where the detective was living?
She says that she is a journalist, and that she knows of the detective from a previous notorious case that was covered widely in the press. This does not explain how she knew what she knew.
In a plausible story, she would have been arrested and interrogated. There must be a leak in the Met, and she must have been working with the leaker. But not in the story.
Plot is said to be the most important thing for crime novels. If the plot fails, then there are no other aspects to redeem it.
The book is called “Broken Oaths”, and its author is Patricia Marques. It is a shame that the plot failed like this.
