When poet Ickey Jerusalem is discovered dead in an airplane toilet, Ded Smith investigates.
Billed as a “rollicking literary murder mystery” with “side-splitting humor,” WHO KILLED JERUSALEM? was anything but. I found the humor to be entirely distasteful which really put a damper on things and made me not care about the characters or the murder mystery. The book is based on the work of William Blake and states at the beginning that the reader doesn’t need to know about Blake or his work in order to enjoy the book. I’m not familiar with William Blake and can’t help but wonder what impact it would have had if I was. I suspect it does actually make a difference although, overall, I don’t think anything would’ve been enough to offset all the cringey parts that really ruined this book for me. The end felt like a huge info dump to make sense of the bizarre story and reveal the murderer. WHO KILLED JERUSALEM? was ultimately a disappointment for me.
Thank you to Netgalley and Galbraith Literary Publishers for the DRC.
Thank you to Galbraith Literary Publishers for the giveaway print copy.
Billed as a “rollicking literary murder mystery” with “side-splitting humor,” WHO KILLED JERUSALEM? was anything but. I found the humor to be entirely distasteful which really put a damper on things and made me not care about the characters or the murder mystery. The book is based on the work of William Blake and states at the beginning that the reader doesn’t need to know about Blake or his work in order to enjoy the book. I’m not familiar with William Blake and can’t help but wonder what impact it would have had if I was. I suspect it does actually make a difference although, overall, I don’t think anything would’ve been enough to offset all the cringey parts that really ruined this book for me. The end felt like a huge info dump to make sense of the bizarre story and reveal the murderer. WHO KILLED JERUSALEM? was ultimately a disappointment for me.
Thank you to Netgalley and Galbraith Literary Publishers for the DRC.
Thank you to Galbraith Literary Publishers for the giveaway print copy.