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I'm not going to pretend for a moment that I've the slightest idea what's going on with the Inspector Giovanni 'Rex' Matsuko series, of which The Reluctant Gunmen is book number 5 (and I've read a couple of the earlier ones as well).

I'm not even sure I can describe them, except to say it's sort of tongue in cheek, wacky, stream of consciousness stuff told in sort of first person, with shifting timelines and subject matter with no obvious or strong story arc (to my eye at least, but I could be missing something), that gets weirder and weirder in a sort of fun, not quite fun, what the hell is going on way.

I waver between finding them a bit of fun and wondering what I'm doing with my life. Definitely from deep into the YMMV category.
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austcrimefiction | Jun 17, 2020 |
If you read the blurb for REVENGE IS A SELF INFLICTED WOUND then you'll get a very good taste for the style of writing in this novel, which I've dithered around a description of for ages now and cannot for the life of me decide. I'm caught somewhere between "stream of consciousness", tempted slightly by the blurb's use of "part literary musing", confused by the statement "the author's tone is a times a moral cry for a better society", and bemused by the "pages are awash with blood and sex".

It's complicated and I do suspect (hope) the author is having great fun with this series. This was, however, a complicated reading experience, which sort of started out vaguely amusing, and ended up more confusing, and bemusing. It's so in my "your mileage may vary" category, under the sub-category "if you can find the keys".

https://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/revenge-self-inflicted-wound-giovanni-re...
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