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How NOT to write a mystery

The Ornamental Hermit - Olivier Bosman

DNF @ 45%

 

Don't care to know if my conjecture as to the crime's resolution is correct. Tedious, lumpen prose and dreary characters make me sneeze and itch. I don't like you, book. I can't get invested in you because you don't do anything to entice me in, or beguile me into supine acceptance of your heaviness.

 

It's not me, it's you. I do like your premise so I won't give you a single star.