Career of Evil by Robert GalbraithBook Review
Hi everyone. I'm Rincey and this is Rincey
Reads. Today I'm going to be doing a book review on Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
a.K.A. J.
K. Rowling, in case you guys aren't aware yet. This is the third book in the Cormoran
Strike series. The first book is The Cuckoo's Calling, the second book is The Silkworm.
I will have links on the screen and down below to my reviews of the two other books in case
you guys are interested in seeing those if you haven't read any of the books in the series
yet.
Also there won't be spoilers any like spoilers for the other two books in the series
or for this book for that matter. In this series you are following a detective named
Cormoran Strike. He is a former military personnel. And he got, uh, his leg amputated after encountering
a bomb while out at war.
His secretary, or his parter, their relationship is a little
bit complicated, name is Robin and she started working for Cormoran Strike in the first book
of the series. At the very beginning of this story you enter into their detective office
and Robin is given a package. And she just kind of signs for it, goes inside, and then
when she opens it she finds a severed leg inside the package, which is obviously extremely
disturbing. And so the story follows detective strike, as well as like the police and everyone
else involved, as they try to figure out 1) who does the leg belong to? And 2) who did
this? Strike has a very strong feeling that this has to do with someone from his past
because there was a note attached to the leg, or a card or whatever came with the leg, that
had lyrics to a Blue Oyster Cult song.
And his mother was basically like a groupie and
had a Blue Oyster Cult song tattooed onto her body and so he has a feeling that these
things are probably related. I really enjoyed this book and I really enjoy this series in
general. Personally I think the mysteries are getting stronger with every book in this
series. For the first book, I felt like when the big reveal happened at the end of the
book I had a pretty good indication of who the person was who did it.
In the second book,
I had like a hint but I wasn't completely sure. And so when the reveal happened I was
nicely surprised. This one I had no idea what was gonna happen. You're basically following
like three suspects who Strike has in mind who committed this crime.
It feels like for
basically like 90% of this book that it could be any of these characters and you really
have no idea which one it's going to end up being. You're following Strike and Robin as
they are going around England and trying to put together the pieces. And so you are just
only given so much information and there's even certain points of the book where you're
given less information, where you recognize that Strike knows things or has made certain
connections that you as the reader may not have, or at least I as I reader definitely
did not. I will say that this book gets a little bit confusing though, just because
there are three different suspects and it can be a little bit difficult remembering
which piece of evidence belongs to which person.
There was a point in this book where I was
just like, "I really can't remember all of the different things or all the different
pieces." I just knew that I wasn't going to be solving this case reading this book because
there was just so many pieces of evidence, I really could not see any sort of connection.
So I was just kind of waiting for it to be spelled out for me. One of the other things
that happens in this book is that there's a significant amount of character development
that happens between Strike and Robin. I think both of those characters are just absolutely
fantastic. And you get a lot more backstory for Robin, which I really, really like.
It
was great seeing more of like where she came from, her background, things that have happened
to her in her past, and her motivations for even working in this detective agency, things
like that. One of the things I did not like is the fact that this book emphasized, just
a little bit more, about a like relationship between Strike and Robin, which is not something
that I'm personally rooting for. I actually enjoy seeing them as just like partners, like
people who are working together, people who see each other as like intelligent, fun people
to hang out with and work with. I'm not really interested in a romantic relationship.
But
I also think this is partially because I don't think J. K. Rowling writes really convincing
romantic relationships. I don't think there's been any point in any of the books that I've
ever read from her where I was like, "yes, I wholeheartedly ship these characters." Even
in Harry Potter, I felt most of my feelings ended up coming out because of other people
on the internet, not because of what was actually written in those books.
So I fee like as long
as the romantic-type relationship-y type stuff stays more in the background than in the foreground,
I'll be happy with this series. But I felt like even in this book, it took up too much
of the actual book itself. I didn't, personally, want any of that but I know that different
people might feel differently. But I even felt like with characters like Mathew, they
were kind of like underserved and underdeveloped and they were made sort of just this counterpoint
to Strike, which didn't feel very realistic.
I don't know, I just am very unhappy with
the way that the Robin/Mathew stuff was handled in this book. If you read this book you understand.
And I kind of wish that that stuff would just get like resolved or get put more in the background
and that there would be more emphasis on the relationship of Strike and Robin as friends
and partners. But otherwise I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I gave it a 4 out of 5 on Goodreads,
but my rating is probably more like a 3.5, Which is the same rating I gave The Silkworm.
So yeah, if you're someone who enjoys straight up mystery books, then this is definitely
a series worth picking up.
So yeah, those are my quick thoughts on Career of Evil. If
you've read this book or any of the other books in this series, feel free to leave a
comment down below letting me know what you guys thought of them. Or if you have any questions
about this book or this series, feel free to leave that down in the comment section
as well. So yeah, that's all I have for now and thanks for watching..
Reads. Today I'm going to be doing a book review on Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
a.K.A. J.
K. Rowling, in case you guys aren't aware yet. This is the third book in the Cormoran
Strike series. The first book is The Cuckoo's Calling, the second book is The Silkworm.
I will have links on the screen and down below to my reviews of the two other books in case
you guys are interested in seeing those if you haven't read any of the books in the series
yet.
Also there won't be spoilers any like spoilers for the other two books in the series
or for this book for that matter. In this series you are following a detective named
Cormoran Strike. He is a former military personnel. And he got, uh, his leg amputated after encountering
a bomb while out at war.
His secretary, or his parter, their relationship is a little
bit complicated, name is Robin and she started working for Cormoran Strike in the first book
of the series. At the very beginning of this story you enter into their detective office
and Robin is given a package. And she just kind of signs for it, goes inside, and then
when she opens it she finds a severed leg inside the package, which is obviously extremely
disturbing. And so the story follows detective strike, as well as like the police and everyone
else involved, as they try to figure out 1) who does the leg belong to? And 2) who did
this? Strike has a very strong feeling that this has to do with someone from his past
because there was a note attached to the leg, or a card or whatever came with the leg, that
had lyrics to a Blue Oyster Cult song.
And his mother was basically like a groupie and
had a Blue Oyster Cult song tattooed onto her body and so he has a feeling that these
things are probably related. I really enjoyed this book and I really enjoy this series in
general. Personally I think the mysteries are getting stronger with every book in this
series. For the first book, I felt like when the big reveal happened at the end of the
book I had a pretty good indication of who the person was who did it.
In the second book,
I had like a hint but I wasn't completely sure. And so when the reveal happened I was
nicely surprised. This one I had no idea what was gonna happen. You're basically following
like three suspects who Strike has in mind who committed this crime.
It feels like for
basically like 90% of this book that it could be any of these characters and you really
have no idea which one it's going to end up being. You're following Strike and Robin as
they are going around England and trying to put together the pieces. And so you are just
only given so much information and there's even certain points of the book where you're
given less information, where you recognize that Strike knows things or has made certain
connections that you as the reader may not have, or at least I as I reader definitely
did not. I will say that this book gets a little bit confusing though, just because
there are three different suspects and it can be a little bit difficult remembering
which piece of evidence belongs to which person.
There was a point in this book where I was
just like, "I really can't remember all of the different things or all the different
pieces." I just knew that I wasn't going to be solving this case reading this book because
there was just so many pieces of evidence, I really could not see any sort of connection.
So I was just kind of waiting for it to be spelled out for me. One of the other things
that happens in this book is that there's a significant amount of character development
that happens between Strike and Robin. I think both of those characters are just absolutely
fantastic. And you get a lot more backstory for Robin, which I really, really like.
It
was great seeing more of like where she came from, her background, things that have happened
to her in her past, and her motivations for even working in this detective agency, things
like that. One of the things I did not like is the fact that this book emphasized, just
a little bit more, about a like relationship between Strike and Robin, which is not something
that I'm personally rooting for. I actually enjoy seeing them as just like partners, like
people who are working together, people who see each other as like intelligent, fun people
to hang out with and work with. I'm not really interested in a romantic relationship.
But
I also think this is partially because I don't think J. K. Rowling writes really convincing
romantic relationships. I don't think there's been any point in any of the books that I've
ever read from her where I was like, "yes, I wholeheartedly ship these characters." Even
in Harry Potter, I felt most of my feelings ended up coming out because of other people
on the internet, not because of what was actually written in those books.
So I fee like as long
as the romantic-type relationship-y type stuff stays more in the background than in the foreground,
I'll be happy with this series. But I felt like even in this book, it took up too much
of the actual book itself. I didn't, personally, want any of that but I know that different
people might feel differently. But I even felt like with characters like Mathew, they
were kind of like underserved and underdeveloped and they were made sort of just this counterpoint
to Strike, which didn't feel very realistic.
I don't know, I just am very unhappy with
the way that the Robin/Mathew stuff was handled in this book. If you read this book you understand.
And I kind of wish that that stuff would just get like resolved or get put more in the background
and that there would be more emphasis on the relationship of Strike and Robin as friends
and partners. But otherwise I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I gave it a 4 out of 5 on Goodreads,
but my rating is probably more like a 3.5, Which is the same rating I gave The Silkworm.
So yeah, if you're someone who enjoys straight up mystery books, then this is definitely
a series worth picking up.
So yeah, those are my quick thoughts on Career of Evil. If
you've read this book or any of the other books in this series, feel free to leave a
comment down below letting me know what you guys thought of them. Or if you have any questions
about this book or this series, feel free to leave that down in the comment section
as well. So yeah, that's all I have for now and thanks for watching..
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