Lazaros's Reviews > The Silkworm

I remember being in a trance after reading the first book in the series. And now I am again at the same emotional state. I don't know what makes J.K. Rowling's books so charming to the eye and mind but when you start a book of hers you get lost in it. The main characters, Cormoran and Robin, they're both incredibly well-structured. I'd also like to add that there's quite a lot of character development, something rarely seen in detective novels, or at least that's my opinion. Cormoran weans off Charlotte while Robin stands up for what she likes to do.

The first one was about a model supposedly commiting suicide, although it turned out, her dropping off the balcony was far from a suicide. What I liked about this one, was that it strayed off the formula of the first book. This one was a bit more risky and macabre, guts out and kept in a fridge and all (you'll understand if you read the book).

This one is about an author gone missing. I think we all suspect that this writer is not missing, but rather dead. There is a book involved, which that author wrote and after having his agent pass some of them along to superiors, he disappeared mysteriously. Cormoran is then approached by his wife to find him. And so the search begins. What's most interesting though, isn't the fact that he is found dead, but who and why and how the author came to be murdered in such a manner.

Highly addictive, and mezmerizing to the last word, J.K. Rowling proves once again why she's so famous. It's a page-turner, even more so fhan the first.