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A review by sjj169
Dead Souls by Angela Marsons
4.0
I've seen this author's series of books read for awhile on here. I was interested but all my friends seem to love them and I was sorta scared that I would hate one of them and then I would get beat up. (You have seen my friends on here-they are vicious little bookworms)..anyways I threw all the cares to the wind when I saw this one and even if it was book six I figured I would dive right in.
AND IT WAS GOOD! I didn't feel lost that I hadn't read the previous books, even if the author didn't take fifty eleven million pages to 'catch up' the reader. She just managed it in a way that worked and after a few minutes I was completely in. I felt I knew these characters even if I had just met them.
The book starts out with DI Kim Stone being called out when some bones are found on a family farm, after getting her investigative juices flowing she is told that she must work with a former co-worker that she would rather not work be on the same planet with. She does it anyways because once she felt the call of finding out who hurt these people she could not leave it alone.
Then we find out that there is a whole lot more going on than just these bones..(this is not really a spoiler either). There is a whole hate crime underbelly that is going to blow up in her area.
I'm giving the author mad props on this. She researched the heck out of hate crimes and what they mean. I knew that I was pretty much an all around offensive person.
BUT I had never considered myself a racist of any form or fashion. This author made me question myself. She made me think beyond the way that I think. She made me see things in a different light and I didn't always like that. But isn't that a sign of a great author? I've been thinking about several simple passages of this book since I read them and I hope it changed some of my stupid thinking. (She doesn't shame in it..she just made me realize that something I thought was fine is in fact totally not-that's what SHOULD happen when you change someone's thoughts...not just shame them into feeling like a fool because they asked questions or didn't completely understand something.)
I'm giving kudos to the publisher of these books too. They have introduced me to a couple of authors that I never would have normally picked up and I'm so glad I did. I hope they all get the attention that they all deserve because Bookouture and it's authors should get more attention. They are getting mine.
Booksource: Netgalley in exchange for review.
AND IT WAS GOOD! I didn't feel lost that I hadn't read the previous books, even if the author didn't take fifty eleven million pages to 'catch up' the reader. She just managed it in a way that worked and after a few minutes I was completely in. I felt I knew these characters even if I had just met them.
The book starts out with DI Kim Stone being called out when some bones are found on a family farm, after getting her investigative juices flowing she is told that she must work with a former co-worker that she would rather not work be on the same planet with. She does it anyways because once she felt the call of finding out who hurt these people she could not leave it alone.
Then we find out that there is a whole lot more going on than just these bones..(this is not really a spoiler either). There is a whole hate crime underbelly that is going to blow up in her area.
I'm giving the author mad props on this. She researched the heck out of hate crimes and what they mean. I knew that I was pretty much an all around offensive person.
BUT I had never considered myself a racist of any form or fashion. This author made me question myself. She made me think beyond the way that I think. She made me see things in a different light and I didn't always like that. But isn't that a sign of a great author? I've been thinking about several simple passages of this book since I read them and I hope it changed some of my stupid thinking. (She doesn't shame in it..she just made me realize that something I thought was fine is in fact totally not-that's what SHOULD happen when you change someone's thoughts...not just shame them into feeling like a fool because they asked questions or didn't completely understand something.)
I'm giving kudos to the publisher of these books too. They have introduced me to a couple of authors that I never would have normally picked up and I'm so glad I did. I hope they all get the attention that they all deserve because Bookouture and it's authors should get more attention. They are getting mine.
Booksource: Netgalley in exchange for review.