Another reviewer is entirely baffled as how this book has such incredible reviews. I fall into this reviewer\u2019s camp.<\/p>\n
The light in the ruins only has a single redeeming quality: the female, post-war detective attempting to solve the series of murders plaguing an aristocratic Tuscan family.<\/p>\n
The female detective is great, and she holds great potential. This is not a vehicle for her. Nor is The Light in the Ruins a vehicle for anything.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s some sporadic narration by the killer, which is entirely clich\u00e9d, boring and pointless. There\u2019s the primal serial killing done in the name of revenge. There\u2019re Nazis, and the people allied with them and there\u2019s the resistance and some ruins and a weak love story.<\/p>\n
Really, there\u2019s nothing worth writing about and there\u2019s nothing worth reading about.<\/p>\n
Really, the writing is weak and the emotions are boring and the plot moves so slowly as to be worthless.<\/p>\n