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Catching a Tiger by Lissie

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Catching a Tiger is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Lissie, released in the...

DRDH Architects: De Aedibus International

Heinz Wirz

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The meticulously, carefully and solidly developed work by the London architects Daniel Rosbottom and...

Jo Nesbo recommended Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven in Books (curated)

"Beside Knausgård, Harstad is perhaps the best Norwegian writer right now. It’s about a young boy moving with his family from Norway to the USA, growing up there in the ‘80s and ‘90s, and so it’s an outsider’s look at American society, written with clinical precision and desperate humor. If you like thick, epic books like DeLillos' “Underworld,” this is probably up your alley."

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Mobile HR system in the sky, supporting the Scandinavian Leadership Model. Delivered by...

Sarah (7798 KP) rated The Leopard (Harry Hole #8) (Oslo Sequence #6) in Books

Aug 2, 2020

Good, but drawn out

I do love Harry Hole and as a character he's brilliant, flawed and alcoholic yet always pursuing the truth and justice. I do think though that some of Jo Nesbo's stories featuring Harry are a little farfetched and drawn out, and sadly this is one of them.

The plot on this is actually very intriguing and full of twists and turns that I didn't see coming, and apart from some of the more farfetched elements, this is actually a very good thriller. The problem is it's a bit drawn out and could have been condensed a lot more, it just seemed unnecessarily long. This also seemed to have an issue with the timeline, it seemed to jump from one location to another and it made me feel a little confused. Also as much as I love Harry, he seems to do the same things in nearly every book I've read recently - leaves Norway, returns for a case he doesn't want but gets sucked in, then leaves Norway again afterwards. The better stories in the Hole series are the ones where he doesn't leave Norway at all and sadly this book is a bit half and half.

Overall this is pretty good but not flawless. It's definitely not the best book in the Harry Hole series, but neither is it anywhere near the worst.