cdeane61's review
5.0
Love reading novels that expand my horizons, in this case an immersion in the world of Turkish Transvestites.
The author mentions a number of Turkish stars performances and it was great fun to look them up on
You Tube. My first exposure to this type of music and fascinating.
Also great fun to look up the landmarks mentioned.
The story is also good, and Murat Somer has a wicked sense of humor.
Highly recommended.
The author mentions a number of Turkish stars performances and it was great fun to look them up on
You Tube. My first exposure to this type of music and fascinating.
Also great fun to look up the landmarks mentioned.
The story is also good, and Murat Somer has a wicked sense of humor.
Highly recommended.
yorkslass70's review
2.0
After reading the blurb on the back cover I thought that I was going to really enjoy this but instead I was just disappointed. I found it flat, with no atmosphere and I just didn't find it or any of the characters in it convincing. I was expecting witty, bitchy banter but found it sadly lacking or maybe they just don't do that in Turkey. The idea behind the murders was a a good one and reminded me of the Boris Starling book, Messiah, though without the transvestites. If you haven't read either book then I would urge you to give this one a wide birth and search out Boris Starling's Messiah instead which is a brilliant read.
sanjee_b's review
4.0
It was a fun, easy read, with a very sensitive issue at its center. I enjoyed it. However, I was not impressed by the numerous errors that I came across - where was the editor?!
writerlibrarian's review
2.0
This was a little darker in tone than the second novel in this series. Both novels felt like first novels in a series in the way the characters are introduced, their quirks and favourites things shown.
The plot lines are a bit thin and boil down to transvestites are being murdered because of their real names that are somehow linked in the killer brain to sin.
The identity of the killer is not a surprise but the end game set up is. From the light, let's get bag ourselves a killer mood, the reader finds an entire different situation with the turn of a page. Shock value? Not being able to set up the right clues or a turn on a dime plot point that makes no sense? Probably a little bit of all of these. I didn't like the ending it didn't fit or feel right for the characters, for the plot.
So a little bit of a let down. More like 2.50 stars.
The plot lines are a bit thin and boil down to transvestites are being murdered because of their real names that are somehow linked in the killer brain to sin.
The identity of the killer is not a surprise but the end game set up is. From the light, let's get bag ourselves a killer mood, the reader finds an entire different situation with the turn of a page. Shock value? Not being able to set up the right clues or a turn on a dime plot point that makes no sense? Probably a little bit of all of these. I didn't like the ending it didn't fit or feel right for the characters, for the plot.
So a little bit of a let down. More like 2.50 stars.
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