Confused? You will be

So I’m reading Susie Maguire’s piece at the Glasgow Herald which is supposedly a review of Ken Bruen’s first two crime novels, RILKE ON BLACK and HER LAST CALL TO LOUIS MACNEICE, which have just been reissued by Serpent’s Tail. And I guess my naive streak kicked in because, golly, I expected there to be, like, an actual review there. You know, pros and cons, criticisms and good points, things like that.

But I guess that’s not how reviews are written anymore, are they? Sure, the biographical info’s all well and good but….Susie, what did you think of the books? Did you even read them? Enquiring minds, and all.