There is no adequate way to describe this book and no genre it will neatly fit in. It tiptoes seamlessly through many categories and it blew my mind. I greatly enjoyed her last book, The Shining Girls, and when I saw she had another coming out I was excited. I was the first to get the book from my t...
Broken Monsters follows the story of several Detroit citizens over the course of a murder investigation. The murder is gruesome, guaranteeing a reader’s interest, but the story never quite develops as thoroughly as one hopes it would. The multiple characters and their stories prove too difficult an ...
Title: Broken Monsters Who wrote it? Lauren Beukes, South African writer and author of The Shining Girls, a time-traveling serial killer story that did excellent business last year. Plot in a Box: Detroit cop Gaby Versado is on the hunt for a serial killer who does extremely weird and nast...
No one, not even seasoned Detroit detective Gabi Versado, could be prepared for the body found in the woods. Half is the remains of a young Black boy. The other half was a faun. They've been joined together by unknown means. But is is far from the strangest thing Versado will encounter in Lauren Beu...
Words lose their meaning when you repeat them. So do bodies, even in all their variations. Dead is dead. It's only the hows and whys that vary. Back when I snagged this book from NetGalley I borrowed Lauren Beukes' previous book, The Shining Girls, to get a feel for her writing style. I was not a b...
This has been a good year for me for free books. Prior to 2014, the total number of free books I'd won on the internet was one. Ever. This year I've gotten three. This one is even one of those goodreads first reads things that I've been entering forever. The Shining Girls is the only other of Beu...
Publication Date: 31st July. Huge thanks to Kate and the Killer Reads team for the nightmares. In the city that’s become a symbol for the death of the American dream, a nightmare killer is unravelling reality. Detective Gabi Versado has hunted down many monsters during her eight years in Homicid...
Thanks to Net Galley and Mulholland Books for the opportunity to read and review this e-galley. It definitely provided some great entertainment! I read The Shining Girls, Lauren's book about a time traveling serial killer and I LOVED it. So naturally I requested this one as soon as I saw it. Just as...
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