However to me her language didn’t feel like the kind of phrases that a female would say, and I’m sorry to say I thought it obviously written by a man. I don’t really mind this as books are meant to sometimes be a bit unbelievable, and to test your imagination.

(Food maybe, but it’s a fact you die without water after a couple of days) Throw in a couple of broken ribs and she really was a female terminator. She was completely indestructible, running away from her captures despite being starved of water and food for what seemed like weeks. The main character was a women called Derby, who again seemed to me to be quite unbelievable. I’m afraid that if it was meant to be some statement on life or culture then it passed me by. There was no explanation as to why the group were kidnapping and then creating a mutilated army. It was as though the author had written himself into a corner with no way of getting out. The ending was a complete anticlimax and felt like it just stopped. However there was something about this whole book that was just ultimately disappointing. (This could of course be because I hate spiders)

The killing of one man trapped in a room full of poisonous spiders was incredibly scary, and when the spiders later reappear above a little girls head in a plastic prison its quite disturbing. This book is quite chilling and gruesome in places which I liked. The gang behind this are surrounded by an army of ghouls who try to hunt down Derby, as well as numerous agents in high places trying to cover the operation up. When Derby confronts one of the kidnapped children who has now grown up and is holding his family at gun point he is found to have been horrifically mutilated. Years later their fingerprints are turning up at fresh abduction sites. His latest book The Soul Collectors is his sixth novel I believe (at what point do people stop being classed as ‘new’ authors?)Ĭhildren are kidnapped and their bodies never found. Another addition to the America’s Got Talent (showcasing new writers) slot in Harrogate is Chris Mooney.

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