Title: overdone
Product review: While many of the flaws which pestered the first episode of this series were no longer to be found in the second one and neither have reappeared here -that constant use of those double surnames, though...I cannot say I am completely about the novel though.Mr James decided to play the card of the witty parody of the sleuth stories and he lets his main hero explicitly mention the fact. This plot device though is not as funny as one could imagine though, at least not in the long run.Simon looks again a little too self complacent and his dialogues with the handsome Inspector Chase are a lot less sparkling than they could have been. Even the sexual tension between him and the same inspector as well as that with Giles appear dimmer than they could have been.A fun read, but less than expected, not to mention the annoying inconsistencies scattered here and there, such as a statement about Giles not being aware of his beauty followed by right the opposite one after no more than two pages.
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