Raven Black
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this book. It diverged from the TV series just enough to keep me interested. I have to say I like the Perez of the TV show more than I like the Perez of the book, but the book Perez was still interesting. I miss the dynamic of him with his step-daughter that you get in the TV show. Gordon Griffin does a good job narrating. He has a really good voice that’s perfect for the story.
I was particularly struck by a comment at the end of the book. Perez is talking about two 16-year-old girls. He says, “They were drinking, not a lot. They each had a bottle of wine, but it was enough to get them talking.”
Wow. An entire bottle of wine each seems like a lot to me. I don’t know if that says more about me than it does about Ann Cleeves or perhaps just the character of Perez or something she’s trying to say about the Shetland people and their drinking, but it definitely stuck in my head. I enjoyed The Crow Trap, the first of Ann Cleeves Vera books, more but this is still worth a read.
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