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The Game

a Mary Russell Novel
Sep 18, 2017jsjs rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
I am a very big fan of this series, but in this case I decided a little over half way through to skim the rest and be done with it. I was thinking of going back to read all of it in detail, but I was so disgusted by numerous aspects of the story, and the sick man who is the cause of these things, I said "life is too short" and put it down. There are lovely elements in this story (Bindra, O'Hara, the magic, the descriptions of early mornings in 1920's India, and so on). The three and a half stars are for these things, for the quality of writing, and for the incredible research that went into this. But at a certain point this story began to feel as appealing to me as a certain macabre banquet that I will probably try and fail to get out of my memory.