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A review by tobyyy
Weighed in the Balance by Anne Perry
4.0
Unread shelf project 2021: book 1. Yay! Starting off on a good note this year!
This year I’ve determined to become less strict with star ratings and to also be cognizant that if I rate lower than the average, I’ll be dragging the average down. If a book is truly deserving of that, then so be it — but I’m going to do better while stressing less about marking half stars or quarter stars in my reviews.
This was a good but fairly slow story. I enjoy Anne Perry’s books but the ones that are courtroom dramas (or culminate in a courtroom drama) can sometimes be difficult to slog through. The ending was somewhat surprising, and I feel like as early as this is in the Monk series (he isn’t married to Hester yet! Shocked me), we still get a good feel for the characters that carries over into later books. That being said, neither Monk nor Hester were as likable or as “gentle” as they are in later books in the series, which is kind of interesting to me.
This year I’ve determined to become less strict with star ratings and to also be cognizant that if I rate lower than the average, I’ll be dragging the average down. If a book is truly deserving of that, then so be it — but I’m going to do better while stressing less about marking half stars or quarter stars in my reviews.
This was a good but fairly slow story. I enjoy Anne Perry’s books but the ones that are courtroom dramas (or culminate in a courtroom drama) can sometimes be difficult to slog through. The ending was somewhat surprising, and I feel like as early as this is in the Monk series (he isn’t married to Hester yet! Shocked me), we still get a good feel for the characters that carries over into later books. That being said, neither Monk nor Hester were as likable or as “gentle” as they are in later books in the series, which is kind of interesting to me.