Monday, 5 October 2015
Portobello by Ruth Rendell
Found in Chepstow Villas, a sum of money between eighty and a hundred and sixty pounds. Anybody who has lost such a sum of money should apply to the phone number below.
I started reading this a few years ago and stopped. On returning to it I can understand why. I'd describe it as pedestrian. It isn't badly written and it's pretty easy to read and the characters are well drawn out but there's something vitally missing, A hook. Something to grab hold of the reader by the scruff of the neck.
The problem is that nothing really happens and when something does happen it's about as dramatic as a tripping over a carpet and bumping your head on the sofa. It's 375 pages of an okay story that doesn't really go anywhere.
Not terrible but quite forgettable. 3/5
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