Book question

[telophase]

Has anyone here read Ghosts in the Snow by Tamara Siler Jones? I picked up the book somewhere-or-other and havne't gotten past the first 20 pages. Does it get any better?

(Seems to be a police procedural set in a medieval-era fantasy world.)

Comments

[devikun.livejournal.com]

I read it just a little while ago. It depends on what you're not liking about it, I guess. The murders pile up, the main character gets more angsty and there's lots of misdirection. But it doesn't much change from that police procedural format. If it's any indication, I read because I needed a break after (fricking) Robin Hobb and can't for the life of me remember Who Dunnit... O_o

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Heh. I actually can't remember what I didn't like about it because I read the first 20 pages a while ago. I put it down - maybe I just wasn't into the main character or something - and it's been hanging about the place waiting for me to decide whether to try it again or not.

I think I may be seriously bugged by the modern police procedural thing, though. If it's not in a modern or future setting, it clashes with my expectations of how people's thought processes are in that world, because the scientific process, which it's sort of entwined with, is a fairly modern invention.

[devikun.livejournal.com]

That's a valid point. It didn't seem too glaring an issue to me though but then I don't read a lot of police/murder stuff. What forensics and autopsies were featured seemed pretty basic and barbaric. I remember wondering how the hell the hero was going to catch the bad guy (whoever it was) because almost the whole way through the book he seemed to have so little to go on!.

I thought the thing with the ghosts was cool though. They became more solid the longer the case remained unsolved, and started interacting with things, and they were of course, rather annoyted at being dead and annoyed at the hero because he hadn't solved their case, and being dead, had no qualms about expressing themselves about this fact. I think the author could have had something really special had she made more of that.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I would be very happy with a fantasy world that had actually evolved a process of inquiry and examination for magic. But the 20 pages of TSJones I read were not at all that.

Also I disliked the Evil Psycho Villain Person Perspective, if I'm recalling the correct book. Since I didn't read any further than you did, I can't offer much insight.

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

completely unrelated, but--now that i've met you, i'm kind of unbearably fond of every post you make. like, "ah! it's telophase! ♥" :D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

And I picture every post you make as topped with the Naruto hat. XD ♥

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Ah, I should have warned you -- Tambo's thing is forensic mysteries in a fantasy setting.