The Telegraph has published the first review of J.K. Rowling’s new mystery novel The Silkworm, and their thoughts about the sequel are very positive.
The Silkworm is a follow-up to last year’s The Cuckoo’s Calling. Both are published by Rowling under the author’s pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
Review copies of the new novel began going out today, and The Telegraph offers an overview of the story’s plot and calls the book an improvement over the first novel following the investigation work of Cormoran Strike and his lovely assistant Robin.
“It’s certainly a damn good read,” they write. “The plot is much more smoothly constructed than in The Cuckoo’s Calling, with Rowling giving her characters room to breathe while still taking a Christie-like delight in the cunning sowing of clues.”
“It’s a book to gulp down, and although Rowling may now be a bona fide Olympic-opening-ceremony-level celeb, the skill with which this book is written tells you as much as its subject-matter does that writing is the core of her life.”
The book, which begins with Cormoran investigating the disappearance of an author who has dirt on people he knows, digs into the publishing world and “unravels a web of complicated sexual entanglements and brutal murder.” Read more of The Telegraph’s review at this link.
The Silkworm will be released worldwide on June 19. You can read the full synopsis in our previous report. If you can’t wait, click here to read the first two chapters.
As far as we know, Rowling will be making just one appearance to promote the new book.
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