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quietjenn

Slow Horses | Mick Herron

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An excellent way to spent the day. Perhaps this will be my year of spycraft? I could see it.

Ruthiella Ooh! What other authors or books would you include? 2w

majkia I've been on a Spy kick too. 2w

quietjenn @Ruthiella I have a lot of Helen Macinnes on my Kindle and have read very little Le Carre, so would probably start with those and go from there? Very open to suggestions though, if you recs. I am not well-read in the genre at all, but quite enjoy them! 2w

Ruthiella @quietjenn I‘m not well read in the genre either, which is why I asked! 😂 I did read a lot of Le Carre in the ‘90s and James Bond novels in the ‘80s, but that is it, really. 2w

quietjenn I may do a little research and will keep you posted! 2w

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Robotswithpersonality

Bad Actors | Mick Herron

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Good times! Definitely lighter in tone than some of the entries in this series. For all that the stakes include threats of everything from ruination of reputations, careers, to bodily injury and death, I'm pretty sure the body count was non-existent. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? As opposed to focusing on how any one particular member of Slough House is sliding further down the slippery slope of hopeless apathy and continual bad mistakes, there was a change introduced for a character that was long overdue, very satisfying from a character development/story arc perspective. 4w

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Did not see that particular 'partnership' coming, but it was a new flavour of motley crew that didn't necessarily reinforce each other's faults, so that's encouraging! 😉
I liked seeing Taverner in the mix a bit more, still curious how she's going to extricate herself from previous unwise decisions. 4w

Robotswithpersonality 4/4 As expected, the question marks I raised regarding a certain character's fate last time still feel like they're floating around in this book, and that matches the air of intrigue for this series very well.
All caught up now, will be looking out for the next book when it's published in the coming year. Unless I get my hands on the bind-up of the interstitial novellas first... (edited) 4w

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Robotswithpersonality

Bad Actors | Mick Herron

Yeah that sounds about right. 🤦🏼‍♂️😬

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CarolynM

Slow Horses | Mick Herron

Thank you @thegirlwiththelibrarybag for these marvellous #AussieSecretSanta gifts. The books (wonderful surprises!) look great and I love the Group of Seven photo & the gorgeous bracelets. I‘m thrilled!

LeahBergen Ooo, Group of Seven! You‘re repping Canada! 👏👏 4w

thegirlwiththelibrarybag @LeahBergen, I hit the AGO gift shop pretty hard ☺️ 4w

thegirlwiththelibrarybag You are so welcome! Thanks for organising this year, it was a very nice experience just being a participant 😉. I was surprised at how few Christmas novels were in bookstores (although the Swanson one did publish last year). 4w

CarolynM @thegirlwiththelibrarybag I had a great template to follow & good people to deal with. It all went very smoothly. I‘m glad you‘re happy with how it‘s gone too, since it‘s very much your baby😘 4w

Freespirit Lovely gifts!!! Oh the Mick Heron series is so good! Carolyn thanks so much for organising @CarolynM. Merry Christmas lovely group! 4w

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majkia

London Rules: Jackson Lamb Thriller 5 | Mick Herron

I love this series sooo soooo much. The characters are so interesting, screwups and fascinating as they try to save the world whilst the big boys are clueless as usual.

#Roll100 @PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 2mo

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TracyReadsBooks

Real Tigers | Mick Herron

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This series is the only exception to my “read it before you see it” rule. Gary Oldman is phenomenal as Jackson Lamb—I love the way he plays the character—and having now read three of the books, I can say that the tv show does a great job of adapting already great stories. Laugh out loud funny, tense (even though I knew what was going to happen), and filled with more flatulence you would expect in a spy novel, this was another fantastic story.

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TracyReadsBooks

Real Tigers | Mick Herron

I mean, that‘s sort of an emergency in my home…

😬😂

Ruthiella 😂😂😂 3mo

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TracyReadsBooks

Real Tigers | Mick Herron

Starting the weekend with Jackson Lamb!

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Robotswithpersonality

Joe Country | Mick Herron

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Oh, Mick, you were doing so well in making each entry in this series a tensley-plotted and craftily-resolved story, with maybe a hint about what might be raised in the next novel. This alone provided an experience that had me coming back for more. This book, however, while containing as much tension and as many twists and turns, raised so many concerns, not enough of which were resolved, and those that were, were not very satisfactorily done. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? The big showdown with River and his father is nothing more than a cliffside scuffle, and a few pages at the end suggest Harkness's multi-book pain-in-the-assery is now dealt with, no justice or face-to-face closure for his son?! Or Harkness is not dead and this a bullshit misdirect. 🙄 Coe's literal worst nightmare is, for all the reader can tell, how he spent his last moments? 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Emma, the only person who after wrongfully being pushed out of a promising career track, tells Taverner to fuck off, rather than go Slough House, and helping out when it wasn't her job anymore, ends up dead?! The entire book is one long torturous descent of an innocent man into the depths of isolation and depression at the whims of bad actors and at the end he's scarred and his foes' fates are glossed over or pending? 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/5 It's obvious it's set up for the next novel, which hopefully will be that much more explosive as a result, but 6 books into a series is pretty deep to start bringing out the type of cliffhanger-adjacent endings which I loathe. 🙎🏼‍♂️ Oh, and if it's possible, even though it's standard that people die and are betrayed in each book, I think things actually got darker than usual. 😕 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 5/5 Either the next book will redeem the series, or it will be the last one I read. 😡
⚠️alcoholism, fatphobia, self harm 3mo

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