Sophie’s Reviews > The Silence of the Lambs > Status Update

Clever. The amount of sundry subject research that must've gone into the novel prior to writing (from moths to tailorship) is not wasted

Maybe a lil' long?

Don't want to stop reading because I'm too excited about what's going to happen in the next chapter (Lecter's escape)! But, alas, there's an errand that needs to be run. Really enjoying the novel

Probably the pinnacle of crime fiction (a genre criticised for its familiarities / similarities across novels). So much happens without it ever feeling forced, overwhelming or hard to keep up with