Author: John Lescroart
Title: The Fall
Year: 2015
My rating: 4,1 out of 10
I haven’t managed to locate any fans of Lescroart’s Hardy/Glitsky series on this blog, so I’ll make the review brief. The Fall is the new addition to the series and the good news is that it is a huge improvement on the horribly bad Ophelia Cut (#14 in the series and brrr, what a bad, bad novel) and the utterly forgettable The Keeper (I bought it less than a year ago but for the life of me can’t say what it was about.)
In The Fall, Lescroart uses the same technique that forms the basis of his really great novel Guilt, which is my very favorite one in the series. But it’s just not as good as the original, and the ending is kind of crumpled. Still, Lescroart is to be commended for coming out of the slump that prompted him to write the utterly boring Ophelia Cut. It’s a good series and the readers are not ready to let it go. Or at least I’m not ready. The author should just get his shit together and work harder.
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