The Moose Paradox by Antti TuomainenMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
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I received this book as a pre-release copy for review. For this reason, I had not read the previous book in the series. Whilst this book is OK as a stand-alone story, it's fairy short on introductions of the characters themselves. I get the feeling that it would be far better to have read the previous book (The Rabbit Factor) first. The main protagonist, Henri Koskinen, has a very exacting character and a way of thinking that I have sympathy with, because I can tend to think in similar ways, although not anywhere near to the extremes that he does. But this is where I have a problem. When creating such a character, it is beholden on the author to uphold the ethos of said character. If the author makes a mistake that the character would not, it spoils the belief in the character. Unfortunately there are a few such mistakes, which belie the character of the main protagonist. Whilst overall it was a reasonable story, the errors kept knocking me out of it.
