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Shatter The Bones by Stuart MacBride

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b00kw0rms0fthew0rldunite's review

5.0

I love this author, the humour and the gritty tales are fantastic! Love Steel, she is such a character and the quirks of the team are delightful. Biohazard Bob has me in stitches!

Despite me loving these books I do have 2 qualms, one is that (Up to this book) even though he is a great cop, he never catches a break and gets promoted. Poor dude never catches a break. It got a bit predictable that he would fail in the end.
Secondly, I don't know why it bugs me so much but I counted 6 bad guy names in this book and yet it only explains who four of them were... possibly 5 as the endings are always a bit rushed and not fully explained.

Can anyone else fill me in?

noralue444's review

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didnt really like writing style, maybe wrong time to start it idrk

abbienk's review

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

infi85's review

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challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

laurapf's review

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

balthazarlawson's review against another edition

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2.0

This is the seventh book in the Logan McRae series. The reason I read this series is for the characters, with all their flaws, as much as for the crime investigation story.

But this book is a bit of a let down, in a big way.

The writing has become very formula driven with only the crime being different and how we are introduced to the crime is totally frustrating. The crime is revealed only a little bit at a time, but if I were a police investigator involved in the case I would have known everything could be known. As a reader I was denied this and this so off putting. I don't like books that treat readers like this, deliberately keeping them in the dark. I suppose it's a ploy to build suspense but it doesn't work with me. Like most books in the series it has the slow build at the start and get quicker to the end. But this book not only got quicker it also got a bit confusing.

So I didn't enjoy this book anywhere near as much as the others. It was too frustrating and too formula driven to fully enjoy.