I am extremely conflicted about this book. In all honesty, there was no need for this to be close to 1000 pages long! The main case or the main murder mystery that the “Troubled Blood” centers around is meticulously crafted, all questions and loose ends exquisitely tied up and there are definitely quite a few chapters of pure JKR gold. The character arcs of both Robin and Strike are beautifully developed and the will-they won’t-they relationship dynamic is executed very well without seeming like a boring cliche.
But then, you have to also sit through a lot of unnecessary fluff, a set of characters that don’t really add anything to the whole story and sometimes just bad editing. I seriously think the editors need to grow a pair, stop being afraid of JKR, and actually start editing the Strike novels.
About the brouhaha around this book being transphobic, I’ll say read the book completely and then decide how much you will let JKR's personal comments affect your perception of her artwork. IMO, this book is as transphobic as reality shows are unscripted.
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