It’s set amid the 2012 London Olympics, that last precarious moment of national unity. At nearly 650 pages, it’s a big book and it certainly doesn’t lack ambition.

More Venetia than Robin, really.Lethal White, the fourth in JK Rowling’s crime series featuring the disabled war veteran turned private investigator Cormoran Strike and his partner in the agency Robin Ellacott, arrives with the customary fanfare, declaring itself “the most epic Robert Galbraith novel yet”. I also agree with someone a little further down that Holiday Graingers portrayal is not how i imagined Robin. Like many here, i am not quite sure why i watch the show, curiosity i suppose. He does not seem to care about Robins happiness at all. The Matthew in the books is selfish and narrow minded. But they could at the very least have shown what a prick Matthew is. I understand that this might not be so easy, on tv. None of this comes across in the series, and i think that is a pity. As Robin says herself: if she had not been raped, they would have split up years ago. The Robin who emerged after the rape convinced herself that what she really wants is to marry Matthew. Matthew never married the real Robin the Robin who dreamed about doing investigative work. Strikes only part in this, is that he offers Robin the chance to realise her dream of becoming a detective. That does not do Robins character in the books justice at all! Their marriage fails, as i read it, because they are not suited at all.

They seem to suggest that the trouble in Robin and Matthews relationship is mainly due to Robins attraction to Strike. This has irritated me to the point that i went looking for a thread like this! I don’t understand why the show is written like this. I felt surprised that a woman like her would do everything she did, when it shouldn’t have been surprising at all! But tv Sarah seems really decent and normal. The way she makes a point of being all over the other girls’ boyfriends, making passive aggressive comments, low key bullying.

They didn’t show all the times Matthew didn’t make it home for dinner because of his job, but then would berate Robin for doing the same.Īnother thing that got on my nerves is that Sarah seems really normal! We all know an annoying bitch like Sarah. And when she lied about driving Strike to Devon, it seemed like she was just being selfish again, when really she lied because she knew there would be no reasoning with him. That made Robin look really immature and selfish. For example, when they had Robin decline the HR job without consulting Matthew. I was going to post saying exactly this! I also hated how they kind of made it seem like some of his behaviour was warranted, sort of.

White from the cormoran strike series