{"id":11335,"date":"2018-12-30T16:29:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T21:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=11335"},"modified":"2021-06-02T19:09:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T23:09:37","slug":"inspector-hobbes-and-the-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11335","title":{"rendered":"Inspector Hobbes and the Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inspector Hobbes and the Blood<\/a><\/em> (2013) Wilkie Martin <\/a> <\/p>\n

\"\"I actually had a great deal off trouble with this book.<\/p>\n

At the start of the story, the narrator is an idiot AND rather unlikable.<\/p>\n

Unlikable enough that about a third of the way through I was thinking, “if this guy remains this much of an asshole by the end of the book, I am NOT going to forgive the author for making me spend so much time in his head”<\/p>\n

I located the bread in a cream-coloured, enamel bread bin with a wooden lid. On opening it, I hit a snag: the bread was all in one lump \u2013 and I\u2019d usually known it to come in slices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s not actually the stupidest thing the narrator says.<\/p>\n

I groaned, not being keen on dogs since one ate my football when I was six. I\u2019ve always blamed it for my failure to shine as a sportsman. At least, I\u2019ve blamed it when not blaming my father.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was, in it’s favor, just plain silly, which is why I kept going.<\/p>\n

I gulped down air, waiting for my pulse rate to drop to something feasible, and realising I wasn\u2019t as fit as I\u2019d thought, though I\u2019d thought I was pretty unfit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I removed my jacket, all grimy and soggy, stinking of wet sheep and, more worryingly, urine, and dropped my trousers. They were round my ankles, I was bending to remove them, when the door opened, striking me firmly on the backside. <\/p>\n

Mrs Goodfellow entered with the trousers I\u2019d ruined in the morning hanging from her skinny arm. \u2018They\u2019re all cleaned and repaired. Have you lost something?\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018Only my dignity, though there wasn\u2019t much to worry about.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That was one of the things that made me keep going, hoping that Andy wasn’t quite the complete ass he was making himself out to be.<\/p>\n

So he was in idiot, but he did redeem himself (although NOT gracefully). But it was rough going for awhile.<\/p>\n

Publisher: The Witcherley Book Company
\nRating: 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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