In bad old Detroit, an outsider artist turns to serial killing to improve his art in Lauren Beukes creepy, genre-bending thriller Broken Monsters.
Broken Monsters features a dedicated police detective who is also a single mom, her teen daughter (caught up in a dangerous online game with a child predator), a washed-up journalist trying to make a second career as a blogger, and a troubled homeless man, whose paths cross and re-cross with the killer. Beukes almost makes Detroit into another character in the novel, which adds interest.
The chilling denouement slides--almost oozes--into a horror story in the last quarter of the novel, which caught me by surprise as I thought the book was more of a straight thriller. But the storytelling had me turning pages quickly to the end, and Beukes' writing is hip and kinetic.
Unsettling but rewarding for readers who are interested in something more offbeat.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Library in Richmond Indiana and read it quickly.
Broken Monsters features a dedicated police detective who is also a single mom, her teen daughter (caught up in a dangerous online game with a child predator), a washed-up journalist trying to make a second career as a blogger, and a troubled homeless man, whose paths cross and re-cross with the killer. Beukes almost makes Detroit into another character in the novel, which adds interest.
The chilling denouement slides--almost oozes--into a horror story in the last quarter of the novel, which caught me by surprise as I thought the book was more of a straight thriller. But the storytelling had me turning pages quickly to the end, and Beukes' writing is hip and kinetic.
Unsettling but rewarding for readers who are interested in something more offbeat.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Library in Richmond Indiana and read it quickly.
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