Book Log #104: Murder in Little Italy, by Victoria Thompson

[annathepiper]

The latest book in the Sarah Brandt series unfortunately was a bit of a disappointment for me. Eight books in and I've grown impatient with the prolonging of the whole "Malloy is going to investigate who killed Sarah's husband" subplot, which has gotten only token attention for the last few books. And, there's the whole idea that Malloy can never have Sarah since they're from two completely different social worlds... which is all well and good, except it's also meant that there's been pretty much no chemistry whatsoever between them for the last few books.

All of which would be forgivable if the plot had more substance--but in this particular case, I called the killer far too early in the book. And the political ramifications of this particular murder, which set off a chain of riots between the Irish and Italian immigrants in the city, didn't have near enough impact to me as it should have.

I may have to bail on this series, I think. Two stars.

Comments

[poodlgrl.livejournal.com]

Hm. I wondered about that, and whether she was going to wrap it finally.

[annathepiper]

Yeah. In principle I wouldn't mind it being a far-reaching story arc, except that she's been at the stage of "Malloy is going to investigate the murder" for several books now. I'd like to see some actual progress on it, and see a book that's actually about that.

Not to mention some actual progress on the relationship front! Eight books in, we should see a bit more in that area by now.