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I have long been a Sue Grafton fan and have read all of the books in the Kinsey Millhone series.

Nearing her late 70s, Sue Grafton remains a master of the private eye genre. Y Is for Yesterday, however, is disappointing.

The subject matter is indeed dark and disturbing, involving an amateur porno tape and a high school murder. Worse, few if any of the characters are appealing. Even some of the old Millhone characters, like her landlord Henry, Rosie and the homeless Pearl, don't do much to relieve the darkness.

The constant flashbacks between 1979 and 1989 become annoying, with information repeated from several different points of view. Most of Grafton's books have Kinsey as the first-person narrator. In this one, supposedly the next-to-last in the series, Kinsey narrates part of the story, but large chunks of it use an omniscient or third-person narrator.

Kinsey herself seems to have lost some of her self-confidence and spunk that has made her such a delightful character. She's constantly fearful of another attack by the man who had tried to strangle her in X (with good reason).

I can't recall another novel in the series that I've enjoyed less. I can only hope that when Z is for Zero comes out it will take us back to the Kinsey Millhone we've known and loved. Grafton certainly still has the talent and ability to do so.

I do admit that the ending of Y Is for Yesterday is, for the most part, satisfying, so that gives me reason for hope that Grafton will wrap up the series in style.


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Y is for Yesterday A Kinsey Millhone Novel Sue Grafton 9780399163852 Books Reviews

As with all her books, I eagerly awaited "Y". The plot of this one is totally not what I have come to expect from Grafton. I was disappointed at the darkness and explicit details. Grafton doesn't pull it off. Her strong point is how she mixes wit with sarcasm and although she is solving a crime, her books were always an interesting, quick read and good for lots of laughs. But because the subject matter of this novel was a rape, the humor felt wrong after hearing the graphic details. And those details were given time and time again. I was surprised she felt the need to be so descriptive over and over again. Where was all the banter between her and Henry, Rosie, Jonah and Cheney? That's what she does best. None of the other characters were likeable and after awhile I didn't feel sorry for any of them, teens and parents alike. If this had been written earlier in the alphabet, I would not have continued to read the rest and would not have recommended this series to so many people. With only one book left, I expected Grafton to start tying up loose ends so that we would be excited to see how things would be finalized in "Z". Now I am afraid the ending is going to be a disappointment!

Side note all of the so-called big name authors Grisham, Patterson, Follett, Evanovich, Woods, Silva, Grafton and many others seem to be trying to pump out as many novels as possible. The quality and content of most recent books have been repetitive, boring and lack the depth of previous ones. I will not be pre-ordering any more novels until I can read the reviews.
I had been sad that this series is ending, but after reading this book I feel like it's time for it to go. I've read all the others and was looking forward to the latest installment. I did not, however, enjoy this book. It was dreary and repetitious. The flashback chapters added nothing and I was particularly unhappy that Sue Grafton chose to repeat over and over the graphic content of a tape of sexual abuse. Every time a new person views the tape it gets described, in addition to detailing the actual event in the flashback chapters. There was no justification for this. I found myself skimming large sections of the book just to get through. Also, Kinsey seems awfully stupid in this book. There's a long list of things she didn't think of, notice, or do. I mean, I came up with more ideas, and I'm not a (supposedly) hotshot detective. She just keeps shuffling her index cards, totally clueless. Summing up unsympathetic characters in an unappealing book in a formerly beloved series.
I feel like this book was totally unedited and anachronisms abounded. First, we have a group of teens, in 1979, who all own VCRs, video cameras, computers and one even has video editing software on his computer??! While the first is justly remotely possible, the others aren't. Kinsey, in 1989, references found footage, hand held type movies which weren't around yet and molded plastic lawn chairs before they were in use. There are many more and it drove me crazy. Plus, Kinsey receives the same information several times from multiple people and doesn't seem to remember that she already knows it. Several chapters were incredibly repetitive. The plot is convoluted and the characters dull or unlikable to the point that I almost stopped reading. There is soooo much filler and random description of meaningless stuff . REALLY-- Penguin needed to clean this book up. I have loved Grafton for years, and continue to do so, as this book was an anomaly, and Kinsey's personality was still fairly vivid, but honestly -- if it had been any other author. I would have tossed it halfway through.
I have long been a Sue Grafton fan and have read all of the books in the Kinsey Millhone series.

Nearing her late 70s, Sue Grafton remains a master of the private eye genre. Y Is for Yesterday, however, is disappointing.

The subject matter is indeed dark and disturbing, involving an amateur porno tape and a high school murder. Worse, few if any of the characters are appealing. Even some of the old Millhone characters, like her landlord Henry, Rosie and the homeless Pearl, don't do much to relieve the darkness.

The constant flashbacks between 1979 and 1989 become annoying, with information repeated from several different points of view. Most of Grafton's books have Kinsey as the first-person narrator. In this one, supposedly the next-to-last in the series, Kinsey narrates part of the story, but large chunks of it use an omniscient or third-person narrator.

Kinsey herself seems to have lost some of her self-confidence and spunk that has made her such a delightful character. She's constantly fearful of another attack by the man who had tried to strangle her in X (with good reason).

I can't recall another novel in the series that I've enjoyed less. I can only hope that when Z is for Zero comes out it will take us back to the Kinsey Millhone we've known and loved. Grafton certainly still has the talent and ability to do so.

I do admit that the ending of Y Is for Yesterday is, for the most part, satisfying, so that gives me reason for hope that Grafton will wrap up the series in style.