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tanyac's review against another edition
5.0
Loved it. One of the best Mo Hayder books ever. Loved how the two storylines entwine in tighter and tighter circles until they converge. Loved how Caffery solves the mystery that has consumed him and I look forward to what that means to his development going forward. Creepy and fascinating.
vkemp's review against another edition
5.0
The Walking Man finds a little dog with the words, "Help us," wrapped around its collar. The dog has escaped from a house of horror, where two home invaders have ensconced themselves. Jack Caffery has taken a leave to re-investigate his brother's disappearance forty years ago. As these two stories bend together, the explosion, when they intersect, will destroy lives. Taut and brilliantly paced, this is crime fiction at its best.
devilstatedan's review against another edition
3.0
Really short chapters which creates a good sense of pace, the characters are interesting & the plot's twisty-turny. I reckon it could've gotten WAY more dark & twisted than it was but it was still a very readable & entertaining story, a decent example of the domestic thriller genre & it's got me thinking about reading more of its kind.
jersy's review against another edition
4.0
This was my first thriller in years and after reading this I wouldn't mind reading another one some time soon.
I totally enjoyed the POV of the family, it was super exiting and I was genuinely afraid what would happen to them. They were interesting enough people that I cared, but didn't care too much so I would be distressed by their suffering. I also enjoyed how we got the perspective from everyone inside that house.
The detectives POV, however, I didn't care too much about it. It had some interesting dialogs, which saved it for me, but I felt I was missing context from previous books in the series and found it somehow funny how every female felt the need to hit on Caffery. I don't know if that's a running gag or we're supposed to just accept it but I had my fun with it. All in all, his segments just weren't as interesting as the actual crime happening.
While I had to suspend my disbelief a little for the setting to work (why would anyone come back to a place such tragic events happend) I didn't feel like I had to do that for the actual plot.
This book has some scenes/details/dialogs that I think will prove to be memorable, maybe more than the actual story. For a moment near the ending, I wasn't sure if I liked the direction it was going but actually the final reveal lead to a look in someone's head I didn't notice I knew very few about. I wish there was even more from that person's perspective, since they seemed really dark and twisted, but I see why from a story-telling perspective this is all that we could get.
A very small nitpick I need to mention is that the chapter titles felt lackluster or sloppy, I think some chapters even had the exact same names. Maybe there's something more behind it I didn't get. However, this had no effect on my enjoyment of this.
I totally enjoyed the POV of the family, it was super exiting and I was genuinely afraid what would happen to them. They were interesting enough people that I cared, but didn't care too much so I would be distressed by their suffering. I also enjoyed how we got the perspective from everyone inside that house.
The detectives POV, however, I didn't care too much about it. It had some interesting dialogs, which saved it for me, but I felt I was missing context from previous books in the series and found it somehow funny how every female felt the need to hit on Caffery. I don't know if that's a running gag or we're supposed to just accept it but I had my fun with it. All in all, his segments just weren't as interesting as the actual crime happening.
While I had to suspend my disbelief a little for the setting to work (why would anyone come back to a place such tragic events happend) I didn't feel like I had to do that for the actual plot.
This book has some scenes/details/dialogs that I think will prove to be memorable, maybe more than the actual story. For a moment near the ending, I wasn't sure if I liked the direction it was going but actually the final reveal lead to a look in someone's head I didn't notice I knew very few about. I wish there was even more from that person's perspective, since they seemed really dark and twisted, but I see why from a story-telling perspective this is all that we could get.
A very small nitpick I need to mention is that the chapter titles felt lackluster or sloppy, I think some chapters even had the exact same names. Maybe there's something more behind it I didn't get. However, this had no effect on my enjoyment of this.
scknitter's review against another edition
5.0
Mo Hayder has written the penultimate story of psychological terror and horror. It is a riveting, bone-chilling tale about a family held hostage in their English country manor. This story of such evil doings will haunt you for long after you’ve finished and you will never suspect the shocking ending… it will leaving you breathless!
scottish_kat's review against another edition
3.0
Not my favourite Mo Hayder book, but it was still a decent read with some twists I didn't spot!
belinda's review against another edition
3.0
Wolf is the seventh book in the Jack Caffery series. DI Caffery is one of my favourite thriller detectives and Mo Hayder's books consistently deliver grisly, spine-tingling thrills, so when I saw this book on Netgalley I requested it straightaway and downloaded it as soon as I could. I was excited to before reading it, I enjoyed it while I was reading it and, after finishing the book, I had very mixed feelings about it. Let me explain.
This book has three concurrent stories. A dog that has the words "HELP US" on its collar is found by the person called "The Walking Man". A wealthy family, the Anchors-Ferrers, are trapped in their home by two vicious, sadistic men. At the same time, Caffery has decided that he can no longer take living without knowing what happened to his younger brother, who went missing when Caffery was a teenager, and has left his job so he can devote all of his time to investigating the case. These separate stories are held together by the dog, for it was the Anchors-Ferrers who attached the note to the dog's collar in an attempt to alert the outside world to their predicament and the Walking Man promises to give Caffery information about his brother if he can find out who the dog belongs to.
Like all of Hayder's writing, the book is a real pageturner. The violence is shocking and, as always, the stakes for each of the characters are high. I wanted to find out what happened in the end so much I read the entire book in two sittings. But...
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the ending is really, really stupid. Like tear the last three pages out of the book so no-one else will ever read it stupid. I was seriously like "you have be kidding" to my cat after I finished it, that's how unbelieving I was that the book would end that way. It just wasn't right. So, for that ending, I took off a whole entire star.
This book has three concurrent stories. A dog that has the words "HELP US" on its collar is found by the person called "The Walking Man". A wealthy family, the Anchors-Ferrers, are trapped in their home by two vicious, sadistic men. At the same time, Caffery has decided that he can no longer take living without knowing what happened to his younger brother, who went missing when Caffery was a teenager, and has left his job so he can devote all of his time to investigating the case. These separate stories are held together by the dog, for it was the Anchors-Ferrers who attached the note to the dog's collar in an attempt to alert the outside world to their predicament and the Walking Man promises to give Caffery information about his brother if he can find out who the dog belongs to.
Like all of Hayder's writing, the book is a real pageturner. The violence is shocking and, as always, the stakes for each of the characters are high. I wanted to find out what happened in the end so much I read the entire book in two sittings. But...
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the ending is really, really stupid. Like tear the last three pages out of the book so no-one else will ever read it stupid. I was seriously like "you have be kidding" to my cat after I finished it, that's how unbelieving I was that the book would end that way. It just wasn't right. So, for that ending, I took off a whole entire star.
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