Book Club: The Cuckoo's Calling
By Shadow
This month I’ve fallen across a majestic discovery. You can’t even bring yourself to imagine how majestic this discovery is! It’s certainly full of J K Rowling’s magic! I was gobbling up some news articles when I found an amazing headline:
“J.K. Rowling reveals she published a new crime novel in April titled ‘The Cuckoo’s Calling’ under pseudonym.”
Now this news is so magical it has covered up the Wizarding world as well as the Muggle life! My own guilty pleasure is reading crime novels with lots of suspense and spiced up romance so the next thing I did was to snoop around about this masterpiece. (It must be a masterpiece because JK wrote it… Duh!)
I looked around and after much difficulty (& hating for the lack of a Google Spell in this old magical library) I found out this description for those who want a sneak peak before gathering the Galleons:
A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel’s suicide.
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.
Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.
You may think you know detectives, but you’ve never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you’ve never seen them under an investigation like this.
As I am writing this, my toes are all curled in the essence of pleasure. I must get my hands on this piece of thrilling perfection. I am sure we all know Rowling has been the Mistress of Suspense through Harry Potter series so why would The Cuckoo’s Calling be any different? It sure has some detective dirty work in it as well!
The only issue of debate has been the reason why she chose a pseudonym, “Robert Galbraith”. We all know & love J K Rowling. She’s done some serious magic, but would she keep that kind of magic in all her writing? There is one way to know… Get your hands on The Cuckoo’s Calling (& the Casual Vacancy if you haven’t already). I believe they both contain a different essence of magic.
Love,
Shadow