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Bottom line:
I think if you’re a huge fan of the series, or completely new to the series, or really interested in geographical details of South Chicago, you may enjoy this book. But I think that if you’ve simply liked a few books from the series, and want to spend some time in that world again, you’re likely to be disappointed in this one.

Main review:
I read the early V. I. Warshawski books several years ago, and enjoyed them. Like most fans of the series, I especially enjoyed the main character, Victoria Iphegenia. She was grouchy, unfeminine, smart, loyal, and sometimes rather foolhardy. There was also lots of action, and lots of Chicago detail to enjoy along the way. I thought Sara Paretsky did a great job balancing plot movement, and scene and character development, to keep the reader hooked and engaged. I took a break from the books, but decided to come back for this one. Boy, was I ever disappointed!

Let me acknowledge: one reviewer here has praised the character development of V. I. over the series. In this book, she’s mellowed quite a bit from her earlier hothead tendencies, and I agree – that’s a pleasant feature. Of course, I’ve aged and mellowed in the mean time, too, so I’m likely biased on that point. ;) I also want to note that Paretsky is still a competent writer. The book’s prose flows easily, and it’s well edited. In my experience, sometimes books late in a series can start to have a higher rate of spelling and grammar issues, which I didn’t find to be the case here. This is pretty much all I’m willing to praise.

I don't know that I would have had as strong a negative reaction if I hadn't read and liked the earlier books. Maybe the things that irked me wouldn’t bother a brand new reader. But to my mind, this book failed on multiple fronts. One significant problem is the plot. There is just wa-a-a-y too much of it. There are too many moving pieces to keep track of. Warshawski is constantly stopping to try and take stock, and bring the pieces together, and as far as I could tell, she didn’t have any better luck than I did making sense of what the heck was going on. In the earlier books, I enjoyed the fact that the heroine wasn’t a superhero. She was sometimes confused. She didn’t know all the details, and had to work hard to figure things out. Previously, that made her almost realistic. But in this book, there’s so much she doesn’t know, couldn’t know, and she has to keep flailing around, desperately hoping that some relevant information will randomly pop up.

Which brings me to my main problem. Warshawski’s actions were incomprehensible for most of the book. Because she knew so little, she had to keep doing random things: go find some person she already spoke with – maybe they’ll say something different; go search some field she already looked through – maybe she’ll see something new; go look at a building she recently scouted; Why? Just …. because. Because she had no other sensible, principled action to take. And her willingness to continue to do perform these unmotivated activities powers the whole book. Now, perhaps, when you’re a real P.I., you have to do this kind of thing. If you’re stuck, maybe it’s wise to repeat something you’ve already done, or to talk with someone you have no reason to think is involved.

**Very slightly spoiler-ish details to follow**
But in this case, the strangeness of our heroine’s actions was seriously compounded by the fact that, for most of the book, Warshawski wasn’t actually investigating anything. She had no client, she had no one urging her to action, she had no one paying her, and significantly, to my mind, she had no reason to believe that anything seriously bad was going on. She seemed to be motivated by sheer perversity. And what made all this worse, in my mind, was that she was seriously injured, sick, and exhausted almost the whole time. Which Paretsky described in loving detail. I was exhausted & uncomfortable myself just reading about all V.I.'s wandering around while either dehydrated, or bleeding, or concussed.

Final grouch: Paretsky makes Warshawski spend huge amounts of time driving all around Chicago, and describes her routes in much more detail than seemed necessary to me. Local color is fine, but I really don’t care which Expressway is crowded at which times of day. In the earlier books, I found the Chicago details charming and interesting. This time around, it seemed like she used up all the charming details, and all she had left were traffic reports.


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Fire Sale A VI Warshawski Novel Sara Paretsky Books Reviews

Another V.I. Warshawski story that I love to read and reread is now on my because makes purchasing eBooks so easy. I tell my friends all about it.
Every V.I. Warshawski book is wonderful.
It's not often one gets to read a detective story with the heroine aa brainy, energetic strong human being. The characters...heroes and villains...are multi..faceted..true to life pele. This book is a pleasure to read and enjoy!!
I've read books from this series before...but they were written much earlier. This seemed so overly contrived and somewhat disjointed. I was disappointed.
Very much enjoyed the book, I enjoy mysteries with female P.I.'s, they seem to keep on going, no matter what. I will continue to read this detective series.
I never tire of Sara Paretsky's gritty and evolving ramble through the south side of Chicago. Her character development is smooth and seamless as she scraps the scabs off her own character defects chews thoughtfully on the ears and souls of her less than perfect characters. From her positively amazing good fortune at the believable ineptness of some of her villains to the near fearlessness of some of her more enchanting friends, the book romps along like her four footed running mates and her grumpy downstairs neighbor. The plots are complicated enough to be believable and simple enough to follow without a flowchart. Bad guys win some and lose some as you expect from real life. Her own complex life is both believable and sympathetic. Keep it up Sara - we'll be back for more.
She never fails to give you a good read - I read some of her earlier works and then she fell off my radar when she was on a hiatus of sorts until I came across some of her books on a clearance table at a local bookstore - I bought one to catch up with her and was not disappointed, I then caught up the rest of the series with her editions. The only CON to her books is the higher than normal price - I wanted to finish the series and was glad I did BUT I feel she needs to get in line with her edition prices

Some have complained about her liberal views coming through the book - they are part of the character - I for one am glad to read something other than cookie cutter detective stories
Bottom line
I think if you’re a huge fan of the series, or completely new to the series, or really interested in geographical details of South Chicago, you may enjoy this book. But I think that if you’ve simply liked a few books from the series, and want to spend some time in that world again, you’re likely to be disappointed in this one.

Main review
I read the early V. I. Warshawski books several years ago, and enjoyed them. Like most fans of the series, I especially enjoyed the main character, Victoria Iphegenia. She was grouchy, unfeminine, smart, loyal, and sometimes rather foolhardy. There was also lots of action, and lots of Chicago detail to enjoy along the way. I thought Sara Paretsky did a great job balancing plot movement, and scene and character development, to keep the reader hooked and engaged. I took a break from the books, but decided to come back for this one. Boy, was I ever disappointed!

Let me acknowledge one reviewer here has praised the character development of V. I. over the series. In this book, she’s mellowed quite a bit from her earlier hothead tendencies, and I agree – that’s a pleasant feature. Of course, I’ve aged and mellowed in the mean time, too, so I’m likely biased on that point. ;) I also want to note that Paretsky is still a competent writer. The book’s prose flows easily, and it’s well edited. In my experience, sometimes books late in a series can start to have a higher rate of spelling and grammar issues, which I didn’t find to be the case here. This is pretty much all I’m willing to praise.

I don't know that I would have had as strong a negative reaction if I hadn't read and liked the earlier books. Maybe the things that irked me wouldn’t bother a brand new reader. But to my mind, this book failed on multiple fronts. One significant problem is the plot. There is just wa-a-a-y too much of it. There are too many moving pieces to keep track of. Warshawski is constantly stopping to try and take stock, and bring the pieces together, and as far as I could tell, she didn’t have any better luck than I did making sense of what the heck was going on. In the earlier books, I enjoyed the fact that the heroine wasn’t a superhero. She was sometimes confused. She didn’t know all the details, and had to work hard to figure things out. Previously, that made her almost realistic. But in this book, there’s so much she doesn’t know, couldn’t know, and she has to keep flailing around, desperately hoping that some relevant information will randomly pop up.

Which brings me to my main problem. Warshawski’s actions were incomprehensible for most of the book. Because she knew so little, she had to keep doing random things go find some person she already spoke with – maybe they’ll say something different; go search some field she already looked through – maybe she’ll see something new; go look at a building she recently scouted; Why? Just …. because. Because she had no other sensible, principled action to take. And her willingness to continue to do perform these unmotivated activities powers the whole book. Now, perhaps, when you’re a real P.I., you have to do this kind of thing. If you’re stuck, maybe it’s wise to repeat something you’ve already done, or to talk with someone you have no reason to think is involved.

**Very slightly spoiler-ish details to follow**
But in this case, the strangeness of our heroine’s actions was seriously compounded by the fact that, for most of the book, Warshawski wasn’t actually investigating anything. She had no client, she had no one urging her to action, she had no one paying her, and significantly, to my mind, she had no reason to believe that anything seriously bad was going on. She seemed to be motivated by sheer perversity. And what made all this worse, in my mind, was that she was seriously injured, sick, and exhausted almost the whole time. Which Paretsky described in loving detail. I was exhausted & uncomfortable myself just reading about all V.I.'s wandering around while either dehydrated, or bleeding, or concussed.

Final grouch Paretsky makes Warshawski spend huge amounts of time driving all around Chicago, and describes her routes in much more detail than seemed necessary to me. Local color is fine, but I really don’t care which Expressway is crowded at which times of day. In the earlier books, I found the Chicago details charming and interesting. This time around, it seemed like she used up all the charming details, and all she had left were traffic reports.