In Uncategorized on August 27, 2002
life in finland:
- -5°C
- in california, people are being rushed to
hospital with frostbite. the finns light a fire and have their last grilled
sausage before winter.
- -10°C
- the british turn on the heating in their houses.
the finns put on a long-sleeve sweater.
- -70°C
- the finns start getting angry because they can’t store their koskenkorva vodka outdoors.
which is (incorrectly) apropos of the fact that darren has managed to
freeze the black label smirnoff in the freezer. 40% vodka freezes at, as
far as i can ascertain having forgotten all formulae by which to calculate
freezing points, about -25°C and domestic freezers should be set at -18°C.
In books read on August 27, 2002
Right, I'm totally caught up on this series now. What impressed me most about this book was how well it was joined up to both the book before and the one after. Henderson links the series together excellently. There was even a mention in the first book of a development that doesn't happen until the latest book. It's stuff like this that really makes a series work and be more than it's individual parts.
This book is set at Chalk Farm gym where Sam is supplementing her sculpting by working as a part time weights instructor. The place and the politics worked for me where some of the characters didn't quite work. The plot's quite decent though I think mystery resolution is work outable but that might be because I've read the later books and a bit of quick thinking led me to pick one of the less likely suspects here and come out right.
Good stuff though not as good these books get later in the series.
Purchased on 12th July 2002.
nocto