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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
Nope. Way way way too much violence against women on all levels, when I was needing this series to back off of killing women after the last book. Done this this series.
I liked the first Stuart Neville book I read a couple of years ago, but this one was just too dark, too brutal for me.
This time Lennon gets caught up with Lithuanian mobsters and sex trafficking. I've read several of these NI thrillers and when immigrants from the former USSR, or Eastern Europe are featured, they wonder how they ended up in a place that is worse than home. The intricacies of NI society and history baffle and maybe even bore them. This story is well wrought, and Lennon comes off as a hero, rescuing trafficked women, and trying to balance his job with caring for a young daughter who his in-laws want to take away from him.
Αστυνομικός Μαραθώνιος Εκδόσεων Μεταίχμιο 2016-2017.
There has been a subset in crime fiction called Tartan Noir .This growing group of writers have changed the face of British crime fiction in many ways. It is darker, more violent but with some black humor thrown in. I found one reference to Irish Noir in a Google search. If you follow the link you will find that there is a "boom (or at least a boomlet anyway) in Irish Crime fiction."
Stuart Neville is a good example of that growing boom of Irish noir crime writers and one of the more recently published writers whom I've come to admire. His writing is stark, often brutal, often tender and moves at what is sometimes a dizzying pace. Galya is a lovely young Ukrainian woman lured to Ireland by a cousin who told her that she would be a nanny for an Irish family in Dublin. Instead she is transported to a mushroom factory near Belfast and told she has to reimburse her employers for her transportation. She is "rescued" by a woman who runs a brothel. Then she is "rescued" once again by someone so unspeakably evil as to be nearly unimaginable. Nearly.
This is what modern noir crime fiction really is about: unspeakable, unimaginable evil. Neville's first novel, The "Ghosts of Belfast", relives the bloody Irish revolution through the eyes of one of their hit men. The second, "Collusion," was reminiscent of the lines of a song by the Who, "Won't Get Fooled Again: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...," one of my favorite songs - especially after the so-called Reagan revolution.
In this third novel featuring detective, Jack Lennon, who appeared in "Collusion," we see there is corruption all around him. He calls himself an idiot as he jumps in and tries to do the right thing. Don't look for sweetness and light here. However, for first rate writing and a terrific read, get this one today.
Stuart Neville is a good example of that growing boom of Irish noir crime writers and one of the more recently published writers whom I've come to admire. His writing is stark, often brutal, often tender and moves at what is sometimes a dizzying pace. Galya is a lovely young Ukrainian woman lured to Ireland by a cousin who told her that she would be a nanny for an Irish family in Dublin. Instead she is transported to a mushroom factory near Belfast and told she has to reimburse her employers for her transportation. She is "rescued" by a woman who runs a brothel. Then she is "rescued" once again by someone so unspeakably evil as to be nearly unimaginable. Nearly.
This is what modern noir crime fiction really is about: unspeakable, unimaginable evil. Neville's first novel, The "Ghosts of Belfast", relives the bloody Irish revolution through the eyes of one of their hit men. The second, "Collusion," was reminiscent of the lines of a song by the Who, "Won't Get Fooled Again: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...," one of my favorite songs - especially after the so-called Reagan revolution.
In this third novel featuring detective, Jack Lennon, who appeared in "Collusion," we see there is corruption all around him. He calls himself an idiot as he jumps in and tries to do the right thing. Don't look for sweetness and light here. However, for first rate writing and a terrific read, get this one today.
dark
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Haven't read the 2nd book. Not nearly as good as the first. Not even in the same league. East European women in servitude and then a serial killer!! shoehorned in? Too cliché. Became a std lame detective story. Perhaps the title is self-referential. Looks like a money grab.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes