Book Worms Delight: The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
When I started reading this book, I had no clue what it was about. I just knew it was another J.K. Rowling book! In that hope, I began with Cuckoo...
464 pages set in the lacklustre view London as well as the posh locales of Kentigern Gardens. Probably the only driving force in the entire book was the protagonist, Cormoran Strike. Strike, an ex-militant, wounded war veteran who is physically-mentally distraught. He is not your regular charming or psychopathic private investigator, he is ordinary. The fact that he is ordinary like us, makes the reader fall for his uncanny appeal. He even makes the dull conversations with various people endurable. The story plot offers nothing spectacular or out of the box, it was pretty conventional. However, it does have an appalling suspense.
Young, pretty and tormented, supermodel Lula Landry falls to her death on a wintry night. The press covers the entire horror, the police investigates the entire scene with supposed precision and rules it out as suicide.
However, after three months of the mysterious accident, her adopted brother, John Bristow hires Strike to investigate the illusive suicide. Not much to ponder, Strike gives his attention to the late supermodel's glittering lifestyle. Her colossal wreckage is buried under layers of suspicion and outrageous fabrications. Landry's mysteries continue to hover around Strike's mind only till he finds the one person who can solve the mystery. But circumstances change dramatically when she is too found dead. From there the bits and pieces of the puzzle start to form the entire charade.
My favourite character apart from Strike would be his assistant, Robin. After the embarrassing first encounter with her boss, Strike and Robin become a refreshing crime solving duo. What's more to The Cuckoo's Calling, is the fashion industry and affairs of the rich and famous. Models, designers, muse-makers, it seems like the entire world revolved around Cuckoo. This tale so naturally perfected by Rowling's effortless descriptions and characters that The Silkworm seems to be my next pick.
464 pages set in the lacklustre view London as well as the posh locales of Kentigern Gardens. Probably the only driving force in the entire book was the protagonist, Cormoran Strike. Strike, an ex-militant, wounded war veteran who is physically-mentally distraught. He is not your regular charming or psychopathic private investigator, he is ordinary. The fact that he is ordinary like us, makes the reader fall for his uncanny appeal. He even makes the dull conversations with various people endurable. The story plot offers nothing spectacular or out of the box, it was pretty conventional. However, it does have an appalling suspense.
Young, pretty and tormented, supermodel Lula Landry falls to her death on a wintry night. The press covers the entire horror, the police investigates the entire scene with supposed precision and rules it out as suicide.
However, after three months of the mysterious accident, her adopted brother, John Bristow hires Strike to investigate the illusive suicide. Not much to ponder, Strike gives his attention to the late supermodel's glittering lifestyle. Her colossal wreckage is buried under layers of suspicion and outrageous fabrications. Landry's mysteries continue to hover around Strike's mind only till he finds the one person who can solve the mystery. But circumstances change dramatically when she is too found dead. From there the bits and pieces of the puzzle start to form the entire charade.
My favourite character apart from Strike would be his assistant, Robin. After the embarrassing first encounter with her boss, Strike and Robin become a refreshing crime solving duo. What's more to The Cuckoo's Calling, is the fashion industry and affairs of the rich and famous. Models, designers, muse-makers, it seems like the entire world revolved around Cuckoo. This tale so naturally perfected by Rowling's effortless descriptions and characters that The Silkworm seems to be my next pick.
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