Lynda Kelly's Reviews > Random

I've given up on this. It's too Scottish for me. Why would you make a book set in Glasgow only available for Scots to understand ? I got cheesed off having to keep looking words up like bunnets, two-tick fiddle or bams (which I still don't get in the context he wrote them, even after looking them up in online Scottish dictionaries). I reached a mention of a jaikie and packed it in at 19%.
Val McDermid doesn't do this and neither does Iain Banks. By writing in this fashion I think this author has narrowed his readership considerably and I am at a loss as to understand why he'd do this. He's also gone with American spellings to add insult to injury....realized, criticized or patronized.
Dog suddenly morphed into dug, though that may have been another Scottish version ? He talks about cab fares he's picked up including 'wee wifies with bags of messages' which meant nothing to me, either !!
Sorry, but I can't keep interrupting my reading to try and translate !!