timsa9cd0 's review for:

The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
DID NOT FINISH

It just got to be too many revenge deaths as some sort of redemption path ... couldn't bear the idea of that.  Initially, I thought that I was reading a serial killer novel flipped sideways with a sympathetic killer aching to right his wrongs by the insane idea of killing more people, except that they were bad people who deserved his bullets.  But when I realized that the author was going to let this madness play out as a legitimate path to redemption I had to quit.  And while I can handle a violent novel, this one seemed to revel in it far more than necessary.