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dinatrojan's review
4.0
I finished Ken Bruen’s Jack Taylor series and was hardcore MISSING the Irish PI.
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Que me looking for more of Bruen’s work.
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After reading A White Arrest (and hating it) I was scared that maybe I wouldn’t like the rest of his books. Maybe I just liked the JT series...which would be fine, but if I’m going to claim someone as one of my favorite authors I feel like I should like more.
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Well rest assured, I ADORED this collection of early short stories.
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The writing was reminiscent of how it was in JT. Short, descriptive, flowing. HUMOR. The humor was back in full Irish force.
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Bruen wrote this before JT. And you can tell that he pieced together aspects of main characters in these short stories to form his future PI. Even some of the passages are the same.
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All in all, this collection was classic Bruen, literally. And the type of effortless, blue collar writing that made me notch him at the top of my list in the first place.
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Que me looking for more of Bruen’s work.
⠀
After reading A White Arrest (and hating it) I was scared that maybe I wouldn’t like the rest of his books. Maybe I just liked the JT series...which would be fine, but if I’m going to claim someone as one of my favorite authors I feel like I should like more.
⠀
Well rest assured, I ADORED this collection of early short stories.
⠀
The writing was reminiscent of how it was in JT. Short, descriptive, flowing. HUMOR. The humor was back in full Irish force.
⠀
Bruen wrote this before JT. And you can tell that he pieced together aspects of main characters in these short stories to form his future PI. Even some of the passages are the same.
⠀
All in all, this collection was classic Bruen, literally. And the type of effortless, blue collar writing that made me notch him at the top of my list in the first place.
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