Last night I finished Love Over Scotland, the third 44 Scotland Street book by Alexander McCall Smith.
I loved the first book in the series but didn't enjoy the second one anywhere near as much.
I'm not sure if the reason I didn't like the second one had to do with the book, and it's focus on a bunch of characters I didn't find very interesting, or my mood at the time. In either case, I like the third book nearly as much as the second. It focuses more on interesting characters - Pat, the girl with the thing for bad boys, Mathew, the rich gallery owner, Bertie, the 6 year old prodigy, and Angus Lorie and his dog, Cyril.
The events in this third book felt more consequential to the characters, while the second book felt more like a space filler between plot ideas. Another facet of these books that I'm coming to appreciate more and more is the use of poetry. A number of the characters refer regularly to poetry, usually Scottish, in a very reverential way.
Highly recommended.
Friday, February 26, 2010
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