A Splinter of glass

When I started to write this, I forgot the name of the book that my husband and I had finished reading together a week or so ago; when asked, he replies with “A Splinter of Ass,”. I guess we can begin to assume how this review is going to look for this book.

A Splinter of Glass, I realized toward the latter part of reading it, is apparently a part of a series written in what sounds like at least the late 70s because there is mentioning of a car phone, and is about a London police detective named Roger “Handsome” West. In the episode we were reading, West was trying put the lead on catching a gold smuggling group, which I am pretty sure had begun in the book previous in the series. So my husband and I are already a little disappointed that we are showing up in a crime without knowing the origin. Good news, Spoiler Alert, Handsome solves the crime, but at the expense of outdated language that, had it just been me reading it, could have finished in about an hour.

I am told to mention that when we first started reading, the language being used with interacting and describing the seasoned West and the youngblood Venables interacting and working together was beginning to make us wonder if we were reading an erotica. It tapered off eventually, but sometimes we would wonder if this was this really a thing. My husband says that the ending seemed really rushed, that the process of West solving the crime was too easy in how everything fell perfectly into place. “It’s one of those books you take with on a camping trip where you read it, you burn it, then forget that you read it lol”. I definitely understand both sides of the coin, especially when it was just a small quick read, which for some reason, because life happens, takes several months for two people to read together; the story progresses quicker than you would normally like with little quick reads like that. I would also like to add that my husband was so unimpressed, that as soon as I finished reading, he took the book and ripped it in half. I apologize, but it was f@ckin’ hilarious.

I probably would not recommend A Splinter of Glass, it really was not very engaging and you do not get a whole lot out of it. I will include the link, as always, but I am ready to get back into not so quick reads.

3/10