Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Book Review of Before the Poison

Before the Poison
maura853 avatar reviewed on + 542 more book reviews


My husband, the In-House Thriller Expert, enjoyed this well enough, although he warned me that this stand-alone novel (not one of Robinson's Inspector Banks series) seemed a little, shall we say, aimless and self-indulgent. I didn't like it, and abandoned it about about 100 pages, convinced that it doesn't get any better. My main problem with Robinson (something I have noticed in the Banks books, too) is padding: TMI. If I have to read one more pointless description of what he ate, where he stayed, where he parked ...

Splitting the difference between his 3-stars and my 1 star ...