Book Post: Galbraith, Brust, Cleary, Gaiman and Wllis
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) [Cormoran Strike 5], 1000pp
It was 1000 pages but I didn't want it to end. I think this might be my favorite of this series, and this is Book 5. I really liked the balance between the case - and it was a really interesting cold case of a woman that disappeared without a trace in the early 70s - and ( Read more... )
It was 1000 pages but I didn't want it to end. I think this might be my favorite of this series, and this is Book 5. I really liked the balance between the case - and it was a really interesting cold case of a woman that disappeared without a trace in the early 70s - and ( Read more... )
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Haha, that's a great way of putting it! I'm really happy to know that you enjoyed the book, and looking forward to what you think of subsequent ones (this is definitely a series where I love individual books to various degrees, but the series really kind of builds between them, although it does it slowly enough that it took me, like, 8 books to go from just liking individual titles to being obsessed with the series as a whole, so I'm always really, really curious to see how people progress through it).
even though it seems a bit simplistic of everyone in the House sharing specific characteristics but that's probably nurture
Nurture/cultural norms is definitely a big part of it, but there is also some additional information that Vlad learns in a later book.
I'm still not sure why a jhereg is needed as a familiarI'm not sure how much explanation you want for any such things (so definitely let me know if it's "none", and I'll just let you discover/surmise on your own -- I'm good ( ... )
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