Low Fell Book Group: December meeting: Unlucky for Some by Jill McGown + Book swap

The December meeting of the Low Fell Book Group was a rather festive affair, with a meal at Primavera. Each member brought along a book that was gift-wrapped for Christmas and anonymous, so that we could all do a lucky dip and select a different read to take home with us.

But before we get into that, there was also the matter of that month's book, Unlucky for Some by Jill McGown, to discuss. It was an unusual novel for us as although it works as a stand-alone title, it is the 13th installment in a series and therefore contained a lot of detail on character development that seemed less important for those of us who hadn't read the previous 12 volumes.

Personally, I got rather bogged down in this and was pleased when the second murder took place, as it started to move things along. There were quite a lot of policemen and women to get used to and the names confused some members of the group. We also took issue with the fact that it had quite a lot of mistakes within the text. It didn't look like it had been proofread by anyone, let alone an editor, before it was published and the typos were quite frustrating.

In all, we gave it a two-star rating.

The books pulled out of the book swap were as follows: