Slow Horses by Mick HerronMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Now that I've got Apple TV back again, I was finally able to get back into the Slow Horses TV series adaptation, and as I work my way through the third season on streaming, I've got the first two books sitting on my library stack as we speak. The first book is not at all as slow as its name suggests - it's a blazing fast read, and the first season of the show did a great job of encapsulating everything that made it so compulsive. Even the long info-dumps in the prologue and epilogue read super quickly, and in a sardonic tone that wouldn't be out of place if Jackson Lamb himself (referred to by full name as he often is) were to be a parody of a film-noir narrator. I'll be breaking away to read the new Dresden Files book next before picking up the sequel, but I already can't wait to see how well Dead Lions captures the energy that made the show's second season its best yet for me.
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