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GOOD AFTERNOON AND WELCOME TO THE ADAM TYLER SHOW.
who is adam, you ask? well he’s from some novel that nobody’s ever heard of called firewatching by russ thomas which is so important to me. you may recognise it from my lockscreen. i am so normal about this guy
where do i start. he has a scar on his face from where he got into a fight with a homophobic police officer. he is a cop but he works in the cold case review unit. he’s kind of terrible at his job. he has 0 personal life. he’s a terrible boyfriend and spends most of the first book running away from oscar, his one night stand. he keeps trying to adopt children but he’s bad at even that <3
if you are sweetiepie08 don’t look under the cut because there are some light spoilers (VERY light but family related <3)
he saw his dad’s “suicide” when he was fifteen. his brother used to take him (teenaged child traumatised by their father’s death) to drug dens. he’s deeply attached to his godmother (police officer) and his dad’s friend/substitute dad (also a police officer) and he nearly gets fired in the first book. he loses two boyfriends in two books. he sucks absolute shit at everything <333
like, the first time we see him he’s considering buying the house he investigated a murder in. boy get therapy
i know for a fact that he knows nothing about pop culture i can just sense it in my soul
anyway he keeps trying to adopt people. constable mina rabbini the mob boss’ son jn book 2 possibly his niece in book 3…… he’s like anti police while being a cop which is so funny. he is everything to me. he’s even gay. he once looked a mob boss in the eye and went “did you kill my dad” like BOY 😭😭
HE IS EVERYTHING. i am very sleepy and rambling i can do better faster cooler stronger later but difnwifnishdidb. biting him. putting him in a jar and shaking him.
I finished Firewatching at the beginning of the year, so will go over it now before I start Nighthawking.
'A body is found bricked into the walls of a house from the state of the hands its clear he was buried alive, that he tried to claw his way out before he died. The victim is quickly linked to an old missing persons case and DS Adam Tyler is called.
But Tyler discovers that he has a connection to the case that hopelessly compromises him. With a brutal sadistic murder to unpick, Tyler must move carefully to discover the truth, without destroying the case or himself.
Meanwhile, someone in the city knows exactly what happened to the body. Someone is watching Adam closely. Someone with an unhealthy affinity for fire.'
Overall I liked it, enough to go on and buy the second one anyway. I've never actually read a crime thriller before but I had been given it for christmas and thought I would give it a go.
It mostly follows 4 different perspectives. Each chapter is laid out as a day during the investigation and at the start of each there is a blog entry from an arsonist.
The most prominent perspective is of course DS Adam Tyler as he trys to solve a murder six years after it took place.
Adam doesn't really work well with others but is assigned to work with DI Doggett and his team to investigate the murder. I enjoyed Adam’s character, he is pretty clueless as to what other people are thinking and feeling socially and it felt pretty relatable. And also kind of funny to read the contrast to how observant he is during an investigation. Adam is also gay and deals with a fair amount of homophobia from other members of the police force, to me it felt like it was dealt with well and in a way that doesn't bog down the story but works within the narrative to be realistic.
There are also some parts following Constable Rabbini, a young police constable, who is on the team working the investigation, who wants to be a detective.
To me the most notable though was the perspective of Lily an elderly woman who lives near the murder scene with her partner Edna. Lily starts receiving black mail notes but can't remember what she did, only that it was something bad. Obviously this was pretty emotional to read but it was an interesting take rather than just following along the investigation alone.
Each book is pretty much a stand alone but continuing to follow DS Tyler. Russ Thomas is also working on a third book.
Obviously this deals with some pretty dark and potentially triggering subject matter and I would recommend looking up trigger warnings for each beforehand.
Going to Start Nighthawking now and will be back in a couple of day with my thoughts 🏳️🌈
❝ it was actually very UNFUNNY. ❞ leaning back in his chair, he kicks his feet up on the desk. not a CLOUD in the sky today. the PICTURE PERFECT summer afternoon. not too hot and not too cold, JUST RIGHT. it’d all be AMAZING if his radio partner wasn’t laughing her ass off. ❝ i had an aversion to the woods EVER SINCE. granted that was THIRTY YEARS AGO, and i KNOW what poison ivy looks like now. but YOU try pissing after being exposed to poison ivy all over your nether regions. burns like a MOTHER. ❞
fuck fuck FUCK got obsessed with a book series and am anxiously waiting for book three. please read Firewatching by Russ Thomas and the sequel Nighthawking i’m literally in tears and there’s no fanfiction hsjklkjdhsjk
