Murder of Crows discussion

This book started off with such a good opening chapter and it had me hooked. That being said, I was sad to find the next hundred or so pages to be lackluster. The first book of his that I read (The Whisper Man), I don’t remember it being this slow in the start but I could be wrong. It might just also seem that way because it is setting up the base work for the rest of the book as hints to more layers of the story. I was just hoping it was able to keep me more interested in reading the rest of the book rather than me waiting for it to get better. I think a way to accomplish this would be to condense the beginning a little more so it doesn’t seem so drug out.

The story as a whole seems like a big jumbled mess and the more you continue to read, the harder it is to keep straight what is going on. Then you hit that one point in the book that’s like pulling a sting of a knot that comes apart and everything makes sense. It’s frustrating as you read it, but knowing to just keep going and things will straighten out in the end is a great motivator.

I think the premise of the book was a great idea and how it all twisted together was great, but it’s hard for me to give a higher rating. There’s just something about it that I think wasn’t cutting it for me.