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A review by ctorretta
Swerve by Vicki Pettersson
5.0
Wow. It is going to take me a minute to get my thoughts in order.
My first thought is that this is intense. I use that word so often that I am not even sure it could describe this. So, of course I went to my handy thesaurus to look up synonyms for intense but nothing seems to fit. Maybe smooshing together all of these synonyms would hit the bill for this one.
Exceptional, piercing, acute, extreme, harsh.
Yeah... if all of those words had a baby then you would have this book!
Secondly, my hubby has this strange habit of not believing that females can write crime. There are many, I'm sure. But we see people like Stephen King and Dean Koontz getting the big press because they are amazing horror writers. This gal, THIS GAL is in that group of authors. My review of Eeny Meeny was the latest thriller I've read with some real oomph to it but the one that has stuck with me for years is Dean Koontz's Intensity. This book matches that scale and even goes beyond it.
I almost wanted to put the book down! A horror enthusiast! I am appalled at myself. That's why I do not read thriller though. Unlike horror from like Clive Barker where there are monsters from his imagination, these monsters CAN be real. This is why we do not trust people! And also why I love animals.
This is non-stop action. The beginning sets up the action, makes me curious about the plot and how things are going to get set into motion, and then it is full speed ahead. I had various guesses at what was going to happen and, although I was not WAY far off, I also did not peg what actually was happening. That always makes me happy. If happy can even be a word used after reading this!
I'm going to need some time before I read another thriller. I might have nightmares about this one! Makes it a 5/5 for sure!
Thank you to the publisher via Netgalley for allowing me to review this tremendously creepy, but fabulous thriller!
My first thought is that this is intense. I use that word so often that I am not even sure it could describe this. So, of course I went to my handy thesaurus to look up synonyms for intense but nothing seems to fit. Maybe smooshing together all of these synonyms would hit the bill for this one.
Exceptional, piercing, acute, extreme, harsh.
Yeah... if all of those words had a baby then you would have this book!
Secondly, my hubby has this strange habit of not believing that females can write crime. There are many, I'm sure. But we see people like Stephen King and Dean Koontz getting the big press because they are amazing horror writers. This gal, THIS GAL is in that group of authors. My review of Eeny Meeny was the latest thriller I've read with some real oomph to it but the one that has stuck with me for years is Dean Koontz's Intensity. This book matches that scale and even goes beyond it.
I almost wanted to put the book down! A horror enthusiast! I am appalled at myself. That's why I do not read thriller though. Unlike horror from like Clive Barker where there are monsters from his imagination, these monsters CAN be real. This is why we do not trust people! And also why I love animals.
This is non-stop action. The beginning sets up the action, makes me curious about the plot and how things are going to get set into motion, and then it is full speed ahead. I had various guesses at what was going to happen and, although I was not WAY far off, I also did not peg what actually was happening. That always makes me happy. If happy can even be a word used after reading this!
I'm going to need some time before I read another thriller. I might have nightmares about this one! Makes it a 5/5 for sure!
Thank you to the publisher via Netgalley for allowing me to review this tremendously creepy, but fabulous thriller!