A personal bias as context: many fans love seeing recurring characters, seeing relationships develop over long series, but I am not one of those fans. I am a bit biased also against very long books and against long series and this is a very long seventh book of a series. I have been officially bored with Strike and Robin for a while, and it is not just even any urges for an explicit romantic relationship, I am just bored ( and in this book I did not actually *like* Strike for a lot of it). So, big sloggy relationship arcs and big fat novels are not my thing. I have been off the specific ship Robin-Strike for a while. (And the romantic relationship that is here, for those who care, seem ed very early teens almost, confused about oh does he like me or not or is X jealous or whatever, tropes oh no one bed only, the thrill. Just a thrill. There is even what seems to be a Chekhov's gun for the rest of the series Bijou's pregnancy and it will GET messy sooner or later, mark my words which made me roll my eyes.

Today, the official accounts of Robert Galbraith made an announcement regarding tomorrow’s big reveal: the official cover and synopsis of the new book, “ The Running Grave,” will be unveiled on July 19th. She's definitely not a damsel-in-distress, but being vulnerable and imperiled is her recurring theme. Notes: Indoctrination exploration, knitting thorny threads, a startling ending (fallout pending!), weighty (dense with dread). Seventh Strike novel to publish this September, in the tenth anniversary year of the bestselling series by Robert Galbraith.

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However, the book is too long. There are characters that you forget who they are if you’re reading over a number of days. There are multiple instances where references are made to previous books and these things are explained to the reader. For example the same character’s relevance to Strike is mentioned in two separate chapters, yet they’re completely irrelevant to the story (do they really need to be mentioned at all?). Unlike the other books in the series, the focus is more on the case even though the readers are made to sense the yearning of both partners for each other. As the saying goes, distance makes the heart grow fonder, Strike finally accepts his feelings for Robin as he misses her presence around him and is kind of depressed that he let Robin move further away from him due to his foolishness to maintain the status quo. Robin being already aware of her feelings for her partner is however more into the “falling out of love” phase and has a boyfriend in place and how cheeky of the author to lob a grenade at the end of the story getting the readers to crave for the next one immediately.

From all the series, I think it was the one which kept me on the edge the most. I was really worried about Robin and what those people were doing to her. I do not want to go into details because spoilers but, let’s say I had nightmares about this book. The Running Grave sold 50,925 copies in its first week on sale in the UK, placing it first on the UK Official Top 50 book sales list. [2] Rowling is also still very much openly transphobic and, thus, I encourage you not to buy her books but rather get them in a library so that at the very least she won’t profit anymore than she already has. And yet, despite this, “The Running Grave” easily garners five stars out of five and a place among my favourite books. Strike, too, grows as a person during the course of the investigation. Especially when dealing with a major change and its aftermath.It's interesting that these books, at least since "Lethal White," have always begun with some major life event. Please, for the love of God, can someone get this author an editor who will actually edit her books? Pat Chauncey – The agency's office manager, a chain-smoker who has also shifted to vaping, like Strike.

Should you read this book? Well, this was better than the last Strike book, which was overly complicated due to the online conversations. But if you’re not sold on the Strike books by now, honestly I’m not sure you should. There is some closure given to some of the ongoing subplots, but definitely not all.

My initial middle of the night thoughts: 1:23 AM , I’m finally done. Amazing, as the last two. Hard to decide which one was better. But, bloody hell, the ending…you’d better write the next one fast, Mrs. Rowling. If you’re one of those people who don’t believe who and what she is, here’s an excellent article (permanently updated) that collects Rowling’s disgusting statements and actions: Kevin Pirbright, a former member of the UHC who was writing a book exposing it as a cult, but died of a gunshot before it was published