REVIEW: Flesh House by Stuart MacBride

Flesh House (DS Logan McRae #4) by Stuart MacBride

Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction

Read: 30th June 2017

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★★★★★ 5 stars

OMG! This is quite different from previous Stuart MacBride in the Logan McRae series. I like that it is focused on the one case instead of several throughout the course of the story, but....WARNING! If you have a weak stomach then steer clear of this one. It is graphic, gory in parts and if it were a movie it would be classified horror. Simply put: serial killer, abattoir, bolt gun, pithing rod (google it) and lots and lots of blood. This is a Wolf Creek in Aberdeen.

Having said that, it was a brilliant, if not gory, mystery. It still had the dark witty humour we are used to and that I love. The continual commentary on DI Steel's bra is cause for amusement, as is the banter between Steel and MacRae. And then there is the new love in DC Simon Rennie's life...lol. But amidst the usual humour and the tough case at hand, a tragedy so sad so shocking hits one of their own and tears their life apart.

So many emotions when reading not just this book, but each of them, makes Stuart MacBride one of my favourite authors.

REVIEW: BY Flower and Dean Street by Patrice Chaplin

By Flower and Dean Street by Patrice Chaplin

Genre: Thriller, Gothic, Paranormal

Read: 19th June 2017

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★ 1 star

What the...? Seriously? That's it?! 

I started this book due to its Tagline "Jack the Ripper" has returned. But what was mostly apparent was the incessant non-stop chatter between Connie and her husband Daniel and their friends Jane and Mark. No wonder Connie kept hearing voices...the bloody ones never stopped bloody nattering!! There was no psychological horror, just some weak attempt of Jack the Ripper and his victims possessing Connie's mind which only drowned out the incessant chatter that seemed to go on endlessly about her. 

I stuck with it in the hope it would get better. It didn't. Instead it ended abruptly with what was apparently Jack's voice indicating he's coming for her....and that's it! Halfway through it just ends and I turn the page to find it's another damn book called The Love Apple! Seriously, this book had potential but it failed to deliver. Too short to fit so much bloody useless chatter in and no real storyline. Connie just seemed to drift by as the book did.