baronessekat | 2023 PopSugar Challenge: a book published the year you were born

The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Spenser is a private investigator who is hired by a college to help them find a stolen medieval manuscript from their collections. He finds himself embroiled in anti-establishmentarian student organizations, murder, organized crime, drugs, fraud and all kinds of things that keep putting him in the line of fire of both bullets and police.

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I have vague memories of the TV show that this book series was based on. I honestly wanted to like this book more. I was even able to put aside the clear misogyny as a product of the time the book was written. But in reality I found the story flat, uninspired and rather boring. However, I MIGHT have liked it more if the reader had ANY amount of emotion in his voice. Instead it was flat and monotone.

Can't say I would recommend the book, but I can't really say I would try to stop you from reading it either.

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