Claire DeWitt Novels Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway, (Paperback)

from Rayaowen

Plot and excellent writing just can't override the tedium of the protagonist's constant self-destructive drug abuse. I found it tough to finish this one and having read two, I won't attempt a third.

from foodairbooks

I enjoyed the first one enough to read this, which was not good at all. My sense was that the author deeply, deeply missed her coke-snorting days. I never liked cocaine, so this book bored me. I did finish it, but the mystery was a disappointment, too. I won't be reading Sara Gran again.

from maneekuhi

"...Bohemian Highway" (BH) is the second DeWitt novel from Sara Gran. I got into this series when I read a very favorable review for BH a couple of months ago. I decided to read the debut book, "Claire DeWitt and the Ciy of the Dead" first though, enjoyed it, rating it a 5.0 So I had very high ex...

from datrappert

First, let me say that I listened to the audiobook version, and narrator Carol Monda is fantastic. Frankly, if I were reading this, I might have just stopped. It isn't that Gran doesn't write well--she does. It's just that she goes on and on. She seems to be one of those writers so in love with h...

from shelleyraec

I was intrigued by the first book of this series, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, describing it in my review as "a slightly surreal, complex novel that is not just about the mystery of the missing... but also explores life's larger mysteries, those of self, purpose and fate." This novel i...