194 reviews for:

Thorn In My Side

C.J. Skuse

4.05 AVERAGE

dark sad tense fast-paced
dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Sweetpea aka Rhiannon Lewis aka Britain's favourite serial killer, is back for her fourth outing and now living across the pond under the name Ophelia and preparing for her wedding to Rafael.  She's happy, content and madly in love and has gone more than two years since her last kill, however things are about to change dramatically!
 I love this series and I'd strongly recommend reading the first three as there are lots of references in this book that may not be fully understood otherwise. Like the first three, it's very blunt, un-PC, unflinching in its descriptions, crude, funny and certainly not for anyone with snowflake inclinations! As before it's told exclusively in diary form with the excellent daily introductions and we do get to see a softer side of her that's been largely hidden in the past. I did find the opening half of the book quite slow at times but that's a minor gripe and I'll look forward to book five in the series as well as an apparent TV adaptation!! 
dark funny inspiring mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Just love Rhiannon so much, hilarious and bad ass… cannot wait for book 5.
dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This series swiftly became one of my favourites from the very first book, and I had been eagerly awaiting this fourth installment - and it doesn't disappoint!
A slower start as we get to know the new "Rhiannon" and her current circumstances, but it's soon full of all the things that make this series so great - the funny, foul-mouthed serial killer out to seek revenge. And those last few chapters just completely blew me away - I NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S NEXT!!!! To say I can't wait for that last installment is an understatement!
challenging dark funny tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Just awful, repetitive, boring and took the story nowhere.  The ending was infuriating,  no more Sweetpea for me.