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A review by belinda
Wolf by Mo Hayder
3.0
Wolf is the seventh book in the Jack Caffery series. DI Caffery is one of my favourite thriller detectives and Mo Hayder's books consistently deliver grisly, spine-tingling thrills, so when I saw this book on Netgalley I requested it straightaway and downloaded it as soon as I could. I was excited to before reading it, I enjoyed it while I was reading it and, after finishing the book, I had very mixed feelings about it. Let me explain.
This book has three concurrent stories. A dog that has the words "HELP US" on its collar is found by the person called "The Walking Man". A wealthy family, the Anchors-Ferrers, are trapped in their home by two vicious, sadistic men. At the same time, Caffery has decided that he can no longer take living without knowing what happened to his younger brother, who went missing when Caffery was a teenager, and has left his job so he can devote all of his time to investigating the case. These separate stories are held together by the dog, for it was the Anchors-Ferrers who attached the note to the dog's collar in an attempt to alert the outside world to their predicament and the Walking Man promises to give Caffery information about his brother if he can find out who the dog belongs to.
Like all of Hayder's writing, the book is a real pageturner. The violence is shocking and, as always, the stakes for each of the characters are high. I wanted to find out what happened in the end so much I read the entire book in two sittings. But...
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the ending is really, really stupid. Like tear the last three pages out of the book so no-one else will ever read it stupid. I was seriously like "you have be kidding" to my cat after I finished it, that's how unbelieving I was that the book would end that way. It just wasn't right. So, for that ending, I took off a whole entire star.
This book has three concurrent stories. A dog that has the words "HELP US" on its collar is found by the person called "The Walking Man". A wealthy family, the Anchors-Ferrers, are trapped in their home by two vicious, sadistic men. At the same time, Caffery has decided that he can no longer take living without knowing what happened to his younger brother, who went missing when Caffery was a teenager, and has left his job so he can devote all of his time to investigating the case. These separate stories are held together by the dog, for it was the Anchors-Ferrers who attached the note to the dog's collar in an attempt to alert the outside world to their predicament and the Walking Man promises to give Caffery information about his brother if he can find out who the dog belongs to.
Like all of Hayder's writing, the book is a real pageturner. The violence is shocking and, as always, the stakes for each of the characters are high. I wanted to find out what happened in the end so much I read the entire book in two sittings. But...
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the ending is really, really stupid. Like tear the last three pages out of the book so no-one else will ever read it stupid. I was seriously like "you have be kidding" to my cat after I finished it, that's how unbelieving I was that the book would end that way. It just wasn't right. So, for that ending, I took off a whole entire star.