Harry Potter Syndrome

Jan 2020
Lethal White - Robert Galbraith – Sphere, 2018
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If there had been any doubt about the true identity of Robert Galbraith, it will have have been dispelled by this book, which has the same level of bloat as the later Harry Potter novels. It is getting on for six hundred pages long and it takes fifty pages before we have even a sniff of the plot. Once it gets going there is an enjoyable if over-complicated plot involving insufferable MPs, home counties horsey types and hypocritical left-wing agitators. But Strike's and Robin's unresolved romantic tension, and the consequences it has on their relationships, takes up far too much of the narrative.