A review by beckyyreadss
The Butcher and the Wren by Alaina Urquhart

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Thank you to Michael Joseph Publishing for sending me this book in exchange for an honest review. 

This book has two points of view. The first one is the killers. He is a methodical killer with a taste for medical experimentation and he is hard a work completing his most harrowing crime yet, all while the authorities are desperately trying to catch him. The other point of view is the Forensic pathologist Dr Wren Muller. She is the best in the business. Armed with a enormous amount of knowledge of historical crimes and years of experience working in the M.E. Office, she’s never had a case she couldn’t solve. Until now. 

This book had the potential to be so much more and it just sort of fell flat. I don’t know if it’s because it was a short book, like it’s 230 pages and I just wanted more gorge and thriller side of it. It was just bland. From the cover of like “She’s hunting him” I would have loved to see Wren go off the rails a bit and try to obsessively find this killer and actually managing to get him, the fact that this books ends up with more questions than answers annoyed me, I know it was for suspect but with crime books, I like the bow tied and seeing justice served but that didn’t happen. 

I think the context of the book could have been brilliant, I think more depth was needed in this book. 
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