JK羅琳新書情節跌宕,不過好像有點過度渲染了
Lethal White, JK Rowling's fourth outing as Robert Galbraith, takes place in 2012, when Britain was basking in the glory of the Olympics and Paralympics .
《致命白色》是JK·羅琳化名羅伯特·加爾佈雷斯創作的第四部作品，書中的故事發生於2012年，英國盡享奧運會和殘奧會的榮光之時。Lethal White picks up where Career of Evil, the last Galbraith novel, ended.
《致命白色》是以加爾佈雷斯的上一部小說《罪惡生涯》的結局爲起點的。With this novel, Rowling begins to display signs of following a pattern – it was at the same point in her Harry Potter series that her novels became huge, and at 647 pages, huge is one word to describe Lethal White.
羅琳的這部小說有遵循一種模式的跡象，而這種模式與她的小說《哈利波特》系列相仿，也就是小說都很長，這部小說有647頁，故事很長是《致命白色》這部作品的一個形容詞。
Another is bloated. The central murder of the novel doesn't occur until page 281, and up until then the book meanders between a myriad of side plots and details will come together.
這部作品的另一個形容詞是過度渲染了。其核心謀殺案直到281頁才發生，直到那時小說才迂迴曲折地講起無數的次要情節和細節。Rowling has always been good at details. But occasionally, Rowling stumbles into such gratuitous overwriting that one can't help but laugh.
羅琳一直擅長細節描寫。但她偶爾也會無緣無故地過多地描寫一些令人忍不住發笑的情節。Galbraith's novels have always been strongest when Robin and Strike are interacting, navigating their complicated feelings for each other while on a case. Unfortunately, for much of the novel they are kept apart.
在加爾佈雷斯的小說中，一直是羅賓和斯特萊克合作解決案件，確定彼此之間的複雜感情的時候最精彩。遺憾的是，在這部小說中，他們多數時候是分開的。
But once she and Strike are reunited, they become the Strike and Robin we love. It proves that it's the characters, not the mystery, that make the Galbraith novels worth reading.
但是一旦她和斯特萊克重逢，他們又變成我們喜歡的斯特萊克和羅賓。這說明使加爾佈雷斯的小說值得一讀的是故事中的角色，而非神祕事件。Lethal White is full of twists and turns, and when its many threads come together, it's exciting and engaging reading. But with a bit of editing, it could have been brilliant reading.
《致命白色》的情節跌宕起伏，當衆多線索匯聚在一起的時候，它既令人興奮，又能引起讀者閱讀的興趣。不過這部作品如果再稍加編輯一下的話，會更值得一讀。
