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A review by pkiwi
Abandoned by Cody McFadyen
3.0
For anyone raising their eyebrows at me reading a thriller: it was a birthday gift (yay, books! :D).
I read it in Dutch, it was engaging though a little predictable. Quite obviously written for an audience either unfamiliar with general policing, long words or without the will to do a little thinking of their own: absolutely every difficult term and procedure was explained, sometimes in tedious and great length.
Also, I don't know about the English blurbs, but the Dutch proclaim this to be 'Hieronymus Bosch writes hell on earth'... well... dear journalist, I know some books which will melt your eyes out of your face if you think this book is by any stretch of the word 'gory' or 'horror'. No surprises there, unfortunately.
I loved Smoky Barett as a character though and might just pick up the first book of the series as light reading.
I read it in Dutch, it was engaging though a little predictable. Quite obviously written for an audience either unfamiliar with general policing, long words or without the will to do a little thinking of their own: absolutely every difficult term and procedure was explained, sometimes in tedious and great length.
Also, I don't know about the English blurbs, but the Dutch proclaim this to be 'Hieronymus Bosch writes hell on earth'... well... dear journalist, I know some books which will melt your eyes out of your face if you think this book is by any stretch of the word 'gory' or 'horror'. No surprises there, unfortunately.
I loved Smoky Barett as a character though and might just pick up the first book of the series as light reading.