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A review by darkskybooks
Sixteen Horses by Greg Buchanan
3.0
This reads as a more literary take on crime fiction. I am not the biggest fan of literary fiction - I find it overly verbose and dry and unfortunately this suffers from its pretentions. I like my genre fiction to be told in a punchy way, and this does not have that. It almost has a gothic feel at times, but somehow it falls a bit flat on that too.
Opening with the discovery of 16 horse heads the tale follows a specialist animal crime consultant trying to unravel the mysteries of a dying coastal town. The setting is dreary and grim and a level of suspense and horror is generated as the cruelties present in the town are uncovered. There is a lot of potential in the stories being told.
Unfortunately it all struggled to get passed the overly written prose for me.
Opening with the discovery of 16 horse heads the tale follows a specialist animal crime consultant trying to unravel the mysteries of a dying coastal town. The setting is dreary and grim and a level of suspense and horror is generated as the cruelties present in the town are uncovered. There is a lot of potential in the stories being told.
Unfortunately it all struggled to get passed the overly written prose for me.