The Jealousy Man: Stories from the Sunday Times no.1 bestselling author of the Harry Hole thrillers

I love Nesbo having read the Harry Hole series of books twice. Harry is one of my favourite detectives. I have a guilty pleasure with Bosch and have recently fallen in love with Bernie Gunther from Philip Kerr series of books. I have really enjoyed Nesbo's standalone books such as Headhunters and The Kingdom. The Son is one of my favourite books. I did not really enjoy this not sure if it was the fact they were short stories or I started reading it at the wrong time. I can only remember enjoying one series of short stories by Jeffrey Archer ( I was young please do not hold it against me) and they were twist in the tale stories. I found it disjointed in parts and just struggled getting into it. I certainly preferred the latter half of the book and especially Rat Island. I think this was because the story was longer more like a novella and probably a preferred style of book for me. My other half read it after me and he enjoyed it much more than me he is a big fan of anything dystopian. He has read Nesbo before but not very recently and not any of the standalone books.

I loved a few stories, others were disappointing. I had not realised it was a nookmof short stories when I bought it. Worth a read

I somehow missed the fact that this book is a compilation of murder short stories. I am not a fan of short stories but some of these were indeed very intriguing in true Nesbo style. But I left the book unfinished to get involved in a longer story.

Mr Nesbo has moved away from the familiar super sluthe stories into a collection of short stories about jealousy.An interesting collection with some entertaining stories.From the title description the Author did also write Harry Hole stuff, it's clearly not another episode of you read it carefully, maybe try reading it out loud to someone intelligent?

This is a collection of short stories by author Jo Nesbo with the common theme of jealousy. There were a few stories that were very good and I would have liked them to have made decent novels but generally this book dragged. The book was in excess of 500 pages and it seemed to go on forever. I normally reads large bite size chunks of books but with this one I found myself dipping in and out between other novels. I do enjoy thee Harry Hole series and the authors writing style but I found this one hard going.The book starts well and the first short story was addictive but many of the other stories were predictable, repetitive and too short to get absorbed.

When I purchased this book, I hadn't realised that it was to be a set of short intriguing and intense collection of stories that kept me glued. I loved it.

Average, no more. Found the storyline occasionally. Nothing really exciting going on. Oh I do like to be beside the seaside, I do like to be by the sea.

I've enjoyed reading Jo Nesbo's books over the years, with the Harry Hole series being a firm favourite. Some standalone novels were great to.I was excited to read this book, and thought a collection of varied stories from someone with as high a calibre as Nesbo was a winning formula.Sadly, I couldn't get into this book and have decided to abandon it for a while as I was only reading it out of obligation instead of enjoyment. The stories just aren't that interesting and make no sense - the first for example starts well but ends stupidly and I struggled to see what the point was. Others are just basic stories of either revenge or jealousy which are predictable. Others have characters apparently falling in love with each other after a 1 minute conversation despite having no interest in each other on the previous page. It just ruined the momentum and offered nothing but silliness.The one thing i've found with the last few Nesbo books is that they are so clunky and word heavy, and you feel like your doing a work out just reading them. I never felt like that when reading the Harry Hole series.A brilliant writer no doubt, and short stories are hard to fully engage the reader as they don't have time to draw you in. I look forward to future relelases but this just wasn't what I wanted or expected.