A review by emckeon1002
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

3.0

What the hell happened. I was really loving this. Beukes is a strong writer, and her noir ramble through the remains of Detroit is both completely current and believable. She identifies the murderer early, and she gets inside of his schizophrenia-addled head well. But five chapter from the end, we're in a dream-world controlled by the killer's contagious thoughts (his art? his madness? his doorway to another world?) At this point it all falls apart for me. There's fodder her for a good book club discussion of mental illness, an artist's madness, the art-lover's swoon, but it was a damned unsatisfying way to end a book.