In short, The Overlook is pants.  It’s really just Connelly’s attempt, in my view, to cash in on the terrorism obsession the US (and the UK) has at the moment.  And maybe an attempt to plug his books to a wider audience.  If that is the case, he should have written something better than this.

Apparently, it was originally a serial in the LA Times, which probably explains a lot: it’s very short and there is hardly any development of characters – many of the characters from previous books are rehashed, presumably to save on space in the paper.  I think he should have fleshed out the story for the book.  Or just not bothered to write the thing in the first place.

Disappointing, Connelly – I expect better from you.  If you’re going to take this approach in the future, take a leaf out of Charles Dickens’ book.  Just not Bleak House.

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