If you know anything about me (besides that I read, I guess)
it’s that I am not a morning person. I say this because it is important to the
further understanding of this review. When I wake up, I am a demon Jana from
another planet. I might bite your head off for asking me how my morning’s
going. I’ve burst into tears just because I didn’t want to be awake. I’m
basically a four-year-old until I’ve had coffee.
On Monday at 5am I woke up with a start. A few weeks ago I
slept through my alarm and missed an hour and a half of class so and I’m still
a little nervous every time I wake up that I’ve forgotten something very
important. But after a quick glance at my phone’s calendar, I fall back asleep
no problem. Except on the 17th I woke up and went, “Crap! I fell
asleep! The Silkworm’s due today. Did
they take it off my Kindle already?” and in a panic I unlocked my Kindle. And
instead of going back to sleep, I finished reading the book. I just had to know
who did it!
“The whole world’s
writing novels, but nobody’s reading them.”
- The Silkworm
The Silkworm is
the second in the Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith/J.K.Rowling. Feel
free to go read about book one, TheCuckoo’s Calling if you want to hear more about that and don’t want me to
spoil a couple things. I liked this book infinitely more than the first one,
probably because I finally let go of Strike being grown up muggle Harry Potter.
It was hard.
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| Strike's more like Mad Eye, really. |
In The Silkworm, Strike’s
rise to fame after solving Lula Landry’s murder in The Cuckoo’s Calling is finally starting to ebb, and so is his
patience with his endless stream of rich, spoiled clients hiring him to spy on
their spouses and lovers. When Leonora Quine, the mousy, frazzled wife of
author Owen Quine, asks Strike to find her wandering husband, he accepts
gladly. Owen Quine is a reclusive and eccentric author, and has been known to
disappear for days on end to work on a novel or shack up with a mistress, but
he has been gone for an exceptional amount of time and Mrs. Quine is beginning
to run out of money.
If you haven’t hopped on the Robert Galbraith/J. K. Rowling
bandwagon, you probably should. There are only two books now, but you can bet
there are going to be dozens more. Knowing how Rowling likes to write, you can
bet that there’s some little details in books 1 and 2 that are going to make
all the difference and have a huge payout in like book 16 because that’s what
she does.
SOS There is no news that she is writing a third book. Where
is my third book Jo? I may not wait five years like I did for Order of the Phoenix. I may find a new favorite author. Jk I
will read everything Rowling writes because I’m obsessed.
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