I'd read The shining girls but the book didn't blow me away. I liked the writing well enough, but was left with too many questions about the time travel to really care. The lack of any likeable character probably didn't help either. But, I wanted to give it another go and see if reading this book ...
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes Book Reaction (not a full review) I’ve been a fan of Lauren Beukes since I first read Zoo City. She has a gift for building interesting worlds, and her characters tend to walk the fascinating and narrow line between flawed and dysfunctional. I love the way she w...
So I read an earlier book by this author, The Shining Girls, which was superficially quite similar to this one (gross thriller with paranormal overtones peppered with Britishisms that somebody should have edited out). I liked The Shining Girls a little more because it was more suspenseful and the ...
This story moves through time from the 1930's through the 1990's, not in a straight line, but jumping from time to time. The killer (Harper) lives in the 1930's and he finds a house with special powers. When Harper leaves the house, he enters different years. Inside the house, Harper finds a list of...
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...
This was my first Lauren Beukes novel as well as my first Angry Robot title. While I was blown away by the quality of the writing (first person present tense that didn't drive me up the wall -- except when Toby was narrating, but that's because he's a wanker), everything else ranged from just okay 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...
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