Review: The Serial Artist
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 31, 2012
This book was very unexpected!  I thought it would be a fairly standard police/detective homicide/who-done-it.  But somewhere along the line, it began to get very strange.  I would go back a chapter to see if I had missed something.  Then, maybe 2/3rds of the way through the other, underlying story began to be revealed.  I was sometimes annoyed that the different characters, or settings weren't set aside more clearly (different type fonts, or different chapter headings, or anything to say "we've shifted gears here!")  And yet, that added to the ultimate pleasure of the story.  The latter part of the book also included some philosophical meanderings which sometimes got tedious, but when I used my brain, were very thought-provoking.  This was not a book to read in short bursts (2 or 3 pages per night before going to sleep).  It must be read in larger chunks in order to maintain the flow of the story.  Overall -- a very good book.  Since this is one of a series, I'll be checking out other books by George Finney.