The Cuckoo's Calling

Reading this was a bit of a chore. Somehow Rowling's adult books fail to satisfy in almost imperceptible way.

The story was neatly woven, I had doubts about who actually did it till the last moment. Overall, a good mystery. But the way it was told. It baffled me at times. And again (the first time was when I tried to read Casual Vacancy, DNFd) I got the feeling that she's like a teenager that's got away from parents and found themselves in a company where they can swear and say nasty things. And they go at it with gusto. The same here. It feels like she's trying to compensate for years when she was limited by the age of her target audience and now, in her adult books, she sometimes makes “dirty” remarks and swears in a way that is very off putting for me.