Finished. More of a traditional style, sleuth-assistant, with mostly interviews (like poirot...).
Story/prose wise, Rowling really has a style (I never read any of the Harry Potter or C V) and the characters are really likeable (Both Strike and Robin already left a mark with one book and would be great as series chars).
Story flowed nicely and pretty fast (except in some cases). Different setting and good char depictions/development. There are cliches (stupid police, no-client detective become famous with 'the case').
I wasn't really awed at the ending and she did not explain some points fully, say, how Cormoran reached at certain conclusions. As some one else said, it ended too soon. I say, 3.5(or even 4)/5.
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Originally Posted by tompe
...I think some things in the plot did not hold together. You can check a mobile number and see who have been called which at one point in the story would have been the obvious thing to try to do...
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From there onwards even I was waiting impatiently for them to check the call list. Even petty cases/thieves are tracked using mobiles nowadays. May be she wrote it 3/4 yrs (?) back can explain that (or any UK restrictions, u know prism and all)?