Agatha Raisin – La psicologa impicciona

Here's the thing. I know these books aren't good books. There is no character development at all - the characters are exactly the same in every single book. The body count is ridiculous - I think about 11 people die in this one, with no noticeable impact on anyone's behaviour. There's a serial kille Leggi tutto

I'm conflicted, I am so fond of the sassy Agatha Raisin, this is my 26th adventure with her after all. Unfortunately, I found this one rather disappointing. Sooo many murders, and so many characters who were just rude and unpleasant made the story feel almost like a parody of prior Agatha books. I s Leggi tutto

Whoa! Talk about ‘let the bodies hit the floor!’ I think this book averaged out one corpse per chapter! To be honest, I’d’ve rated this one higher if the author wasn’t letting her ignorant Sun -reader-style prejudices show quite so much...

Once upon about 12-13 years ago, I stumbled upon an Agatha Raisin audio book, the very first book in the series of which Dishing the Dirt is #26. Since that time, I have read or listened with pleasure to each book in the series, even though the narrator for the audio titles changed at some point fro Leggi tutto

I keep promising myself never to read another Agatha Raisin novel again, but a friend gave me this one, so I just had to read it, didn't I?! The last 5 or 6 novels in the series seemed to me to be overhastily published, very badly edited, full of mistakes, ridiculously predictable and, basically, va Leggi tutto

I have always been a little bit in love with Sir Charles Fraith. After reading this book, I am completely enamored by him. Sure he has his faults, lots of them, but then so does Aggie, and she is darned lucky to have a guy like this in her life, if sporadically. I tend to like the books the best whe Leggi tutto

RECENSIONE QUI: https://thereadingslove.blogspot.com/... M.C. Beaton torna con il ventiseiesimo episodio della serie dedicata alla protagonista singolare Agatha Raisin, un’investigatrice privata determinata, testarda e dal carattere difficile e dai tanti vizi, con un’infanzia sfortunata e un matrimo Leggi tutto

Beaton does a nice job of bringing in the regulars with brief descriptions. This book is stronger that the last several books and has several differences: everyone is nasty, ravens are all over the book and there are more murders than before. There were several dropped words in sentences.

Predictable and repetitive but I just can't stop myself from reading them!! :)

My husband warned me I would hate this book. It started off well enough, but became very disjointed with multiple points of view for no apparent reason. It was also sloppy -- on one page a character was said to be 26 and less than half a page later, he was said to be 25. [spoiler] There was also a p Leggi tutto