For some reason I'd never really gotten into the Strike novels. I read Cuckoo's Calling when it first came out J.K Rowling wrote it and enjoyed it, but never really continued with the series as the books were coming out.

Then got when the controversy over The Ink Black Heart started happening I wanted to read it and decided to pick up from book #2. While I've enjoyed the books, they also weren't anything super special. Sometimes it took me a bit to finish them.

Started Troubled Blood a couple weeks ago, figured at 30 pages a day I'd be done in about a month or so (mind you the last book I read was 350 pages long and took almost 3 months). I'm 50 pages away from finishing. 30 pages a day (not including weekends) became 60-90 pages a day, sometimes more.

Don't know why, but it's gotten me out of my reading slump and now all I want to do is read. Haven't had the desire to watch TV ever since starting it.

Now I'm considering breaking my "No 2 books from the same author back-to-back" rule.