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A review by hank
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
5.0
Great payoff at the end! I was pretty sucked into the characters from the get go, they were all fairly different and evoked different emotions when reading about them. The middle part was just about to turn into one of those real life parallel type of stories that bore me to death but Beukes added some unrealism in the nick of time.
Parts of Leah's character didn't ring true to me, she was this uber aware and savvy teenager, luring pedophiles online and then she was doing some fairly obviously, stupd things. It was explained to some exctent after the fact but I never got the sense her character would actually do some of the things she did without thinking them through. Stealing videos from her detective mom's computer? Nobody is that dumb/desperate.
Jonno was highly annoying from the get go and I didn't like his insertion into the book until I realized, that is exactly why he was there, then he became an effective villain rather than someone I had no interest in reading about.
I love happy endings, maybe this one wasn't happy but it wasn't disasterous. 4.8 stars because of the almost distracting lull in the middle.
Parts of Leah's character didn't ring true to me, she was this uber aware and savvy teenager, luring pedophiles online and then she was doing some fairly obviously, stupd things. It was explained to some exctent after the fact but I never got the sense her character would actually do some of the things she did without thinking them through. Stealing videos from her detective mom's computer? Nobody is that dumb/desperate.
Jonno was highly annoying from the get go and I didn't like his insertion into the book until I realized, that is exactly why he was there, then he became an effective villain rather than someone I had no interest in reading about.
I love happy endings, maybe this one wasn't happy but it wasn't disasterous. 4.8 stars because of the almost distracting lull in the middle.