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One Good Turn: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
from Little, Brown and Company

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• annoy-ing hyph-ens
  i enjoyed this novel but was constantly distracted by the separation of words by hyphens. apparently the kindle formatting has a glitch with this bo-ok.

• silly
  Having enjoyed the intricacy of Case Histories I was eager to read this -- but what a disappointment. It felt like she was so obsessed with adding more layers and more characters and more twists that she forgot they all had to make sense together. The silliest part: (spoilers) I suppose *one* ridiculous divine-intervention plot-altering death isn't out of place in a book calling itself a "jolly" murder mystery, so when the dog suddenly and without explanation ups and dies in mid-lunge at Jackson (as we... more info

• Boring
  The first three quarters of this book just dragged on and on. The author talked about her characters in depth where she would focus so intensely and for such a long time on a character that you forgot exactly who the other characters were when she finally switched to the next. She also discussed different incidents numerous times with a different approach which got confusing. It was interesting how she connected the characters and the last quarter of the book was pretty good which makes me believe that if... more info

• "Boxes within boxes, dolls within dolls, worlds within worlds..."
  In the second of her Jackson Brodie series (after Case Histories: A Novel and before When Will There Be Good News?: A Novel), Kate Atkinson creates a series of bizarre characters, all involved with murder--either planning it, committing it, or trying to avoid it. Many seemingly unrelated characters, involved in several seemingly unrelated plot lines, make their appearance in the first fifty pages. During the four days in which the novel takes place, however, these characters and plots start to overlap and... more info

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