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A review by mo_mentan
The Queen of Poisons by Robert Thorogood
3.0
that resolution doesn't sit right with me. while it is an interesting twist, it also screams fatphobia and makes it seem like losing dozends of kilograms of weight over a year is a thing someone just does by the way without support isolated in their home in a clearly very bad mental state.
all thre maine characters, except maybe judith, seemed to lack depth in this one. the thing with beck's mother in law and judith's beau was cool though (although the gold-digger thing is somewhat misogynistic too, i guess).
alwo, my cop hating ass pushed to the side, i felt like tanikas character in particular was just a shell in this one and nothing interesting happened there (except maybe if one thinks absolutely questionable and unrealistic professional choices are an interesting character trait).
the story, too just dragged on and on. nothing much happened, the stakes seemes low. the reasoning was exceptionally bad at times (that guy blackmailed someone, i'm sure he must be capable of murder). also, much more so than the last two i felt this lacked social commentary and felt very _white_ and british. the police and the justice system seem to be the solution for everything, fat people are just lazy and beautiful women who do lots of important work are actually mean and crazy.
not a fan, which makes me very sad because i devoured the first and liked the second one.
all thre maine characters, except maybe judith, seemed to lack depth in this one. the thing with beck's mother in law and judith's beau was cool though (although the gold-digger thing is somewhat misogynistic too, i guess).
alwo, my cop hating ass pushed to the side, i felt like tanikas character in particular was just a shell in this one and nothing interesting happened there (except maybe if one thinks absolutely questionable and unrealistic professional choices are an interesting character trait).
the story, too just dragged on and on. nothing much happened, the stakes seemes low. the reasoning was exceptionally bad at times (that guy blackmailed someone, i'm sure he must be capable of murder). also, much more so than the last two i felt this lacked social commentary and felt very _white_ and british. the police and the justice system seem to be the solution for everything, fat people are just lazy and beautiful women who do lots of important work are actually mean and crazy.
not a fan, which makes me very sad because i devoured the first and liked the second one.