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aislinnerin 's review for:
The Thursday Murder Club
by Richard Osman
emotional
funny
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
“We all have a sob story, but we don’t all go around killing people.”
I’m so torn about The Thursday Murder Club. I really wanted to love it and while I did love the characters and found some moments hilarious, the actual plot fell a bit flat for me. It was difficult for me to get throught the book in a sense that, while I was reading it I was mildly amused but after a few pages i would put the book down and not be drawn to pick it up again. There were also a lot of characters suddenly introduced late in the book that it started to be a bit hard to keep track.
I am very fond of most of the core characters, like the murder club and Stephen, and there are some quotes that made me laugh out loud.
“It can be very hard to smoke in a sauna, but Jason Ritchie is giving it his best shot.”
““Is all your coffee fair trade?”
”Yes, all fair trade” smiles the young woman serving.
”Shame” says Ian.”
“He ended up in Amsterdam, doing odd jobs. Not odd jobs as we would think about them, like clearing your gutters or painting a fence, but taking cocaine across the Channel on ferries.”
Aside from this I feel very lukewarm about the book and even in the end, when the mystery was revealed, my reaction was a bit like “oh…ok”.