Reviews

Shatter the Bones by Stuart MacBride

infi85's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense 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

4.25

laurapf's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

balthazarlawson's review against another edition

2.0

This is the seventh book in the Logan McRae series. The reason I read this series is for the characters, with all their flaws, as much as for the crime investigation story.

But this book is a bit of a let down, in a big way.

The writing has become very formula driven with only the crime being different and how we are introduced to the crime is totally frustrating. The crime is revealed only a little bit at a time, but if I were a police investigator involved in the case I would have known everything could be known. As a reader I was denied this and this so off putting. I don't like books that treat readers like this, deliberately keeping them in the dark. I suppose it's a ploy to build suspense but it doesn't work with me. Like most books in the series it has the slow build at the start and get quicker to the end. But this book not only got quicker it also got a bit confusing.

So I didn't enjoy this book anywhere near as much as the others. It was too frustrating and too formula driven to fully enjoy.

dbevvers63's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

nighthawk921's review against another edition

5.0

Excellent.

historybooksandtea's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

chadjames312's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

lian_tanner's review against another edition

5.0

Stuart MacBride just keeps getting better and better.

andrew61's review

4.0

I keep forgetting how much I enjoy the Logan McRae crime series so each time I pick one up I wonder why I have left it a year since the last outing into the world of Aberdonian cops and villains. Here an instant celebrity mother and daughter (think Britain's got talent) are kidnapped and Macrae faces a race to catch them before the promise to kill the child is completed. Facing villains who seem to be always one step ahead of him , and personal risk he combines with a great supporting cast , including the brilliantly funny DI Steel to keep me turning the pages.

nataliejs_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5