raeanne's review against another edition
1.0
I made it 12%.
Trigger Warning for rape, torture, mutilation, child murder. Especially the beginning prologue. Absolutely brutal.
-->Describes a character as a lover of "Oriental food".
--> Fatphobic.
--> This fucking quote: "We drove north on I-10, past an outlet mall and on toward West Baton Rouge with its truck stops and gambling joints, its bars full of oil workers and, elsewhere, blacks. " <----REALLY?!?
-->That racist BS is followed by the most stereotypical "black swamp witch" passage I've ever had the misfortune to read.
Yeah, I'm fucking done.
Trigger Warning for rape, torture, mutilation, child murder. Especially the beginning prologue. Absolutely brutal.
-->Describes a character as a lover of "Oriental food".
--> Fatphobic.
--> This fucking quote: "We drove north on I-10, past an outlet mall and on toward West Baton Rouge with its truck stops and gambling joints, its bars full of oil workers and, elsewhere, blacks. " <----REALLY?!?
-->That racist BS is followed by the most stereotypical "black swamp witch" passage I've ever had the misfortune to read.
Yeah, I'm fucking done.
auliarach's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, Violence, Grief, Alcoholism, Death, and Gore
rachelunabridged's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Child death, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Blood, Cursing, Death, Body horror, and Violence
Moderate: Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Racism, and Kidnapping
Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty
xxertz's review against another edition
3.0
BLUF: Slow, but steady read. Good for those (like me) who naturally suspend their disbelief.
Meet Charlie, “Bird”. Bird is a poor excuse for a husband, but didn’t deserve the loss of his wife and his daughter to a serial killer. After the death of his family, Bird left the NYPD for freelance detective work. Well, sort of. The book starts with Bird acting as a bounty hunter to pass the time, but he is soon wrapped into a case to find a missing woman as a favor to an old PD friend.
What should be a simple case soon becomes more complicated. As the bodies start piling up around the missing woman case, Bird also has to deal with the return of his wife and daughter’s killer. Obsessively, Bird seeks to trap his family’s killers. The hunt is on.
This book starts rather gruesomely, with the detailed killings of our main character’s wife and child. A lot of people are not going to be interested in reading such details, but, for the rest of us, the morbid curiosity is all we need to get sucked into this book.
The first case is slow and not very entertaining. Bird travels to a town where nobody wants to deal with him. The case isn’t very interesting and the effort the “bad guys” put into inconveniencing Bird is bizarre and excessive. The case has an enjoyable ending and I would have felt comfortable ending the book right then.
After the first case and a call from the killer himself/herself, Bird gets renewed motivation to track down his family’s killer. Along the way, Bird finds himself dragged into gang turf wars, frozen out of the FBI’s investigation, and in the arms of a new lover. This case is more enjoyable, but not necessarily “realistic”.
This book contained little things that I felt were truly unrealistic. At one point, the police act on Bird’s tip without any real question or further proof. Quick friendships with gang leads, welcoming into the FBI investigation, even if informally, and friends who would drop anything to fly to where you are and wreak havoc is a bit.. far-fetched for me.
All-in-all, I enjoyed this book and will revisited the series at some point in the future.
Meet Charlie, “Bird”. Bird is a poor excuse for a husband, but didn’t deserve the loss of his wife and his daughter to a serial killer. After the death of his family, Bird left the NYPD for freelance detective work. Well, sort of. The book starts with Bird acting as a bounty hunter to pass the time, but he is soon wrapped into a case to find a missing woman as a favor to an old PD friend.
What should be a simple case soon becomes more complicated. As the bodies start piling up around the missing woman case, Bird also has to deal with the return of his wife and daughter’s killer. Obsessively, Bird seeks to trap his family’s killers. The hunt is on.
This book starts rather gruesomely, with the detailed killings of our main character’s wife and child. A lot of people are not going to be interested in reading such details, but, for the rest of us, the morbid curiosity is all we need to get sucked into this book.
The first case is slow and not very entertaining. Bird travels to a town where nobody wants to deal with him. The case isn’t very interesting and the effort the “bad guys” put into inconveniencing Bird is bizarre and excessive. The case has an enjoyable ending and I would have felt comfortable ending the book right then.
After the first case and a call from the killer himself/herself, Bird gets renewed motivation to track down his family’s killer. Along the way, Bird finds himself dragged into gang turf wars, frozen out of the FBI’s investigation, and in the arms of a new lover. This case is more enjoyable, but not necessarily “realistic”.
This book contained little things that I felt were truly unrealistic. At one point, the police act on Bird’s tip without any real question or further proof. Quick friendships with gang leads, welcoming into the FBI investigation, even if informally, and friends who would drop anything to fly to where you are and wreak havoc is a bit.. far-fetched for me.
All-in-all, I enjoyed this book and will revisited the series at some point in the future.
kristiana28's review against another edition
2.0
The beginning - great.
The ending - great.
The middle - never ending.
Maybe the ending was so great, because I knew it was the ending.
The way it's been written is nice and easy to follow with all the oh so many characters. Each one gets a nice introduction, no matter which part of the book you're at.
It's a great serial killer & detective book, but somehow I found it rather boring. Thus the 2 stars. Definitely not one for my. Won't continue with the series.
The ending - great.
The middle - never ending.
Maybe the ending was so great, because I knew it was the ending.
The way it's been written is nice and easy to follow with all the oh so many characters. Each one gets a nice introduction, no matter which part of the book you're at.
It's a great serial killer & detective book, but somehow I found it rather boring. Thus the 2 stars. Definitely not one for my. Won't continue with the series.
bookish_satty's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
3.0
I really liked the plot of this story but sadly there were so many characters that I couldn't keep track of who was who so it was quite a frustrating experience. I did like the ending though because I couldn't guess who the murderer was at all so it was quite a shock. I liked the main characters and would definitely read more about them. The writing was disjointed in my opinion and the flashbacks were hard to differentiate from the current events. Hope the next installment will be more polished.
P.S. - The audio narration was good and easy to follow.
P.S. - The audio narration was good and easy to follow.
bunnieslikediamonds's review against another edition
2.0
You can only endure so many gruesome murders and mutilations until boredom sets in. I lost track of the characters, dead and living, after a few hundred pages, and didn't much care.
averymiller's review against another edition
2.0
First third of this was very interesting and then they just seemed to need to add more and more nothing. I will not be reading the sequels.
blackrose99's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
octavietullier's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.0
2,5 stars