Broken Monsters
By Lauren Beukes
- Release Date: 2014-09-16
- Genre: British Detectives
Description
A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukes's genre-bending novel of suspense.
Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit's standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams?
If you're Detective Versado's geeky teenage daughter, Layla, you commence a dangerous flirtation with a potential predator online. If you're desperate freelance journalist Jonno, you do whatever it takes to get the exclusive on a horrific story. If you're Thomas Keen, known on the street as TK, you'll do what you can to keep your homeless family safe -- and find the monster who is possessed by the dream of violently remaking the world.
If Lauren Beukes's internationally bestselling The Shining Girls was a time-jumping thrill ride through the past, her Broken Monsters is a genre-redefining thriller about broken cities, broken dreams, and broken people trying to put themselves back together again.
"Scary as hell and hypnotic. I couldn't put it down...I'd grab it if I were you." -- Stephen King
Reviews
Great potential, totally squandered
2By Lt. O'WhoraThis book is an easy read for your morning/evening commute. It doesn't require a lot of intellectual commitment and is reasonably entertaining in small commuter bites. Unfortunately you will be severely disappointed by the ending which is a best a punt by an author who had no idea how to finish an otherwise entertaining "dime store paperback." In the end you will come away totally disappointed in an otherwise engrossing author.Full Bodied-Bull Book!
5By LiitawayI just finished this epic thriller...I woke up from a three break, sleep...just to read more. I think this is my third novel this weekend. Stunning, captivating, thrilling, google-searching inducing, just all around fantastic read!
