Your Humble Blogger has been getting behind in his Book Reports (and further behind in other blogging, but this note is a book report). I’m trying to make sure I don’t miss anything.
One of the more missable books was Laura Lippman’s In Big Trouble (New York: Avon 1999). I’d read and enjoyed the first two Tess Monaghan books without becoming a hardcore fan. I never picked up the third, but when I saw this one (the fourth) at the library, I picked it up without much thought.
Clearly, Ms. Lippman is trying to do the Vorkosigan thing, where each book stands reasonably well alone, but you get more out of them if you read the whole thing. Or you don’t, I wouldn’t really know. At any rate, much of this book is taken up with the relationship between Tess and Crow (a character from previous books). The upshot of all their bickering, agonizing, and justifying was that I liked each of them less than I had before reading the book. Which was not, I assume, Ms. Lippman’s intent.
Perhaps I’ve just lost my taste for ‘Mystery’ novels?
Redintegro Iraq,
-Vardibidian.