Grace Monroe

I was very disappointed with this book. I found the writing stilted being half narative and half lecture. It seemed to me that the two authors felt the need to include every factoid they had come across during research, and whilst I do actually enjoy background facts, I don't enjoy them presented in this way, constantly interrupting a storyline.

Unfortunately the book wasn't redeemed for me by the characters. I found Brodie the celtic coloured, bike-riding, lawyer with a background from the school of hard knocks and Joe the kilt-wearing thug-with-a-heart total cliches. And as for the men who constantly swarmed around Brodie, protecting her and cooking up bacon butties by turn...no job to go to lads!? It was all a bit formulaic and contrived for me. The (lost the) plot became increasingly complicated, bizarre and unbelievable as the novel progressed and there was a 'where did that come from?' moment at the end as the myriad of crimes in the book (incluing GBH, kidnap, blackmail, breaking and entering, murder, child abuse to name but a few) became entangled in the greatest mystery known to man!

I'm afraid I won't be pursuing any sequals, but if you like your books way over on the fantastical side then this may well be the one for you.… (altro)