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Originally Posted by issybird
Anyone’s entitled to dismiss an author on the basis of one book. I do it myself all the time. There are a lot of books out there and there’s no point in throwing good reading time after bad. However, you can’t be taken seriously as a critic, especially of an author as important to the genre as DLS, on the basis of one book and that the first, where most authors haven’t hit their stride. Even her second was a vast improvement - and the first was not terrible.
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I agree with all of the above - except the bit after the hyphen.
I found
Whose Body so awful I took a break of nearly 2 years to recover before resuming my self-imposed Sayers discovery program