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The Woman in Silk
Captain Hal Stirling is flown to England from Afghanistan after a roadside bomb renders him battered and broken.
Once home, he retreats to his ancestral family seat of Stirling Towers - a gothic mansion that dominates the landscape near the remote Scottish Borders - for a Christmas of quiet recuperation. But on arrival he discovers that his mother, a fanatical spiritualist, has died and been hastily buried.
Isolated from the insular local community, Hal finds himself at the mercy of his mother's two mysterious nurses, the harshest winter on record and, before long, the horrific visions; experiences he attributes to his heavy medication. Yet as the December weather deteriorates, so does Hal's certainty that his home is a place of safety.
Who, or what, is trying to frighten him to death?
Once home, he retreats to his ancestral family seat of Stirling Towers - a gothic mansion that dominates the landscape near the remote Scottish Borders - for a Christmas of quiet recuperation. But on arrival he discovers that his mother, a fanatical spiritualist, has died and been hastily buried.
Isolated from the insular local community, Hal finds himself at the mercy of his mother's two mysterious nurses, the harshest winter on record and, before long, the horrific visions; experiences he attributes to his heavy medication. Yet as the December weather deteriorates, so does Hal's certainty that his home is a place of safety.
Who, or what, is trying to frighten him to death?
472 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2011
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January 17, 2016
This is why you do not buy gifts in stores when you have no idea what to expect of the book.
It sounded so interesting. PTSD. Hauntings. Questionable characters. Deaths. What was not to love? It turns out the answer to that question is everything – none of it is what you expect.
I’ll start at the beginning, with a story of how I came to read this book.
I was looking for a gift for my friend’s birthday. Like me, said friend is a book lover, so it went without saying what kind of gift she was to be given. Unfortunately, I wasn’t sure what kind of book. I had some general ideas but I did not have a specific book. When I read the back of this book in the store, it seemed like something she would enjoy. Therefore, I picked it up. Once at home, I looked it up on Goodreads. Uh-oh moment: bad reviews. However, sometimes a book can surprise you. Therefore, I decided to give it a go just in case it was one of those cases whereby the book can be enjoyed. After working my way through it (and trust me, it took me a while – not least because I kept starting and reading other books as I wanted a distraction from this one), I decided the masses are correct. This book really wasn’t worthy as a present. Fortunately, my friend saw the amusing side in it. Yearly challenges sometimes have a ‘read a book with bad reviews’ challenge, meaning my friend took this book up for said challenge. It all turned out well in the end, yet it does not remove the fact that this book was a massive disappointment.
Where to begin with all that was wrong with it?
The unreliable narration is probably the biggest issue. Having an unreliable narrator is often useful – there are countless examples we can use whereby such a thing made books extremely enjoyable – yet in this case it does not work. Things are confusing. Things are unclear. You are often unsure as to what is going on. You are reading something that makes no sense at all in the story at that moment in time. It is not so much an unreliable narration as an attempt at such a thing. The author tried, and failed, resulting in a mess you cannot quite grasp.
Then there are the characters. Everyone is so flat. It is often unclear as to who is speaking, and as they are all the same you cannot make any judgement. There is no diversity. The author attempts to make them seem different, yet when it comes down to how they act and speak they all seem to follow the same set pattern. You cannot tell one from the author.
As for the storyline itself, it jumps around so much. It doesn’t seem to have a clear direction in which it is heading. It is almost as though the author pulled together a number of different ideas and threw them together, resulting in a mashup that did not work at all. Did the author want a horror or a thriller? An attempt to mix the two together resulted in an unclear story.
I could rant and rave about this book for a very long time. But I will save you the torture. Just know I found it to be a massive let down.
It sounded so interesting. PTSD. Hauntings. Questionable characters. Deaths. What was not to love? It turns out the answer to that question is everything – none of it is what you expect.
I’ll start at the beginning, with a story of how I came to read this book.
I was looking for a gift for my friend’s birthday. Like me, said friend is a book lover, so it went without saying what kind of gift she was to be given. Unfortunately, I wasn’t sure what kind of book. I had some general ideas but I did not have a specific book. When I read the back of this book in the store, it seemed like something she would enjoy. Therefore, I picked it up. Once at home, I looked it up on Goodreads. Uh-oh moment: bad reviews. However, sometimes a book can surprise you. Therefore, I decided to give it a go just in case it was one of those cases whereby the book can be enjoyed. After working my way through it (and trust me, it took me a while – not least because I kept starting and reading other books as I wanted a distraction from this one), I decided the masses are correct. This book really wasn’t worthy as a present. Fortunately, my friend saw the amusing side in it. Yearly challenges sometimes have a ‘read a book with bad reviews’ challenge, meaning my friend took this book up for said challenge. It all turned out well in the end, yet it does not remove the fact that this book was a massive disappointment.
Where to begin with all that was wrong with it?
The unreliable narration is probably the biggest issue. Having an unreliable narrator is often useful – there are countless examples we can use whereby such a thing made books extremely enjoyable – yet in this case it does not work. Things are confusing. Things are unclear. You are often unsure as to what is going on. You are reading something that makes no sense at all in the story at that moment in time. It is not so much an unreliable narration as an attempt at such a thing. The author tried, and failed, resulting in a mess you cannot quite grasp.
Then there are the characters. Everyone is so flat. It is often unclear as to who is speaking, and as they are all the same you cannot make any judgement. There is no diversity. The author attempts to make them seem different, yet when it comes down to how they act and speak they all seem to follow the same set pattern. You cannot tell one from the author.
As for the storyline itself, it jumps around so much. It doesn’t seem to have a clear direction in which it is heading. It is almost as though the author pulled together a number of different ideas and threw them together, resulting in a mashup that did not work at all. Did the author want a horror or a thriller? An attempt to mix the two together resulted in an unclear story.
I could rant and rave about this book for a very long time. But I will save you the torture. Just know I found it to be a massive let down.
December 11, 2011
They story itself seemed to interest me, but the more I got into the book the more I found I was lost. What was real and what was not? The ending was ok until you then think to yourself was the Japanese Lady real or not because she went to stay with the vicar told him she was having his child, he said I phone you at midnight, he did and could'nt get through and we never heard of her again.
February 24, 2012
the first book in a long time I couldn't wait to finish.
450+ pages and i can't think of anything positive to say.
I only rated it one star as it must have had something going for it to keep me reading to the end.
unsatisfactory to say the least.
450+ pages and i can't think of anything positive to say.
I only rated it one star as it must have had something going for it to keep me reading to the end.
unsatisfactory to say the least.
January 7, 2013
Starts strangely & continues to confuse along through the chapters.. But all becomes clear in the final chapter.. Stick with it- it's worth it..
April 24, 2012
very very confusing
April 21, 2012
A brief synopsis of the book: Hal Stirling a bomb disposal expert is suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome after an incident in Afghanistan. He is recuperating back in the UK, when news come of the death of his mother. Hal journeys back to the large, Gothic ancestral home via his married Japanese lovers house. Here the story changes into either a psychological thriller or a horror ghost story depending on how you understood it. The mother and daughter team who had been caring for his mother are either completely lovely or completely psychotic! The plot twists and turns with spectral manifestations, psychological intrigue and moody weather!
What did I think - umm difficult one this. Although written nicely, the plot became rather too Gothic for my tastes.
What did I think - umm difficult one this. Although written nicely, the plot became rather too Gothic for my tastes.
August 31, 2017
I enjoyed this book and found it to be an intriguing Gothic type of tale. I was interested to find out what was happening at the house and although I didn't find it surprising, I kept wanting to read more. (I did notice that the puppy's name changed from one chapter to the next!).
November 1, 2012
Review to come soon.
January 30, 2023
I feel slightly bad writing this review because I googled the author, Reg Gadney, and discovered that he died in 2018. He seems to have been a very interesting person, who created many great things throughout a very creative and fruitful lifetime.
Unfortunately, this book isn't one of those things.
There are two things I really loved about it. The first is the blurb, which is shared at the end of this review. This is a book which sounds perfect for me, and I'm still looking forward to reading the story that I believed it would be.
The second is the personal inscription which is in my copy. You see, someone who knows me really well also read the blurb and immediately thought of me! What could possibly go wrong?!
It turns out that a book can look perfect for someone but still not be a good fit. But, honestly, this is just not a good book.
There are one or two characters who threaten to be realistic but every single one of them maintains an air of unlikability, so you don't particularly care what happens to any of them.
We have Hal, the absolute idiot who, despite the fact that he's aware of how weird his mother's nurses are, never bothers to move into Carlisle until the Christmas is over (despite the author's heavy-handed attempts to make it clear how very wealthy he is).
There's the nurses themselves, possibly witches, possibly religious extremists, possibly adult pantomime villains who you want to boo and hiss at at various times throughout the book.
You also have Sumiko (the woman Hal's having an affair with, professes to be in love with, then promptly forgets about) whose young daughter experiences a horrific trauma and yet who finds almost immediate solace by Cooking For Her Man. Yeuch!
Finally, there are various named villagers, who are all so two-dimensional that it's a wonder they're not found blowing like kites around the freezing English countryside.
The plot is bizarre too. Other reviewers have mentioned that it doesn't know whether it's horror or a thriller, and that's a big identity crisis which runs through the book.
I actually found myself laughing as it got towards the end, when it suddenly jerks way off piste and you're faced with a very different kind of story to the one you've painstakingly read through for the past 78 chapters.
Finally, disappointingly for Gothic fiction, the shock-and-gore value of this book is far greater than the writing quality. I looked to be scared but never got any further than being repulsed or, more precisely, ick-ed.
The book would have benefited significantly from some heavier editing. Discovering that the author was also a screenwriter explains their obsession with pages and pages of speech, but an editor ought to have put a stop to that.
To summarise, I cannot think of a single thing to recommend this book, but please let me know if you ever choose to write the story which is on the blurb because I'm still waiting to read it.
Unfortunately, this book isn't one of those things.
There are two things I really loved about it. The first is the blurb, which is shared at the end of this review. This is a book which sounds perfect for me, and I'm still looking forward to reading the story that I believed it would be.
The second is the personal inscription which is in my copy. You see, someone who knows me really well also read the blurb and immediately thought of me! What could possibly go wrong?!
It turns out that a book can look perfect for someone but still not be a good fit. But, honestly, this is just not a good book.
There are one or two characters who threaten to be realistic but every single one of them maintains an air of unlikability, so you don't particularly care what happens to any of them.
We have Hal, the absolute idiot who, despite the fact that he's aware of how weird his mother's nurses are, never bothers to move into Carlisle until the Christmas is over (despite the author's heavy-handed attempts to make it clear how very wealthy he is).
There's the nurses themselves, possibly witches, possibly religious extremists, possibly adult pantomime villains who you want to boo and hiss at at various times throughout the book.
You also have Sumiko (the woman Hal's having an affair with, professes to be in love with, then promptly forgets about) whose young daughter experiences a horrific trauma and yet who finds almost immediate solace by Cooking For Her Man. Yeuch!
Finally, there are various named villagers, who are all so two-dimensional that it's a wonder they're not found blowing like kites around the freezing English countryside.
The plot is bizarre too. Other reviewers have mentioned that it doesn't know whether it's horror or a thriller, and that's a big identity crisis which runs through the book.
I actually found myself laughing as it got towards the end, when it suddenly jerks way off piste and you're faced with a very different kind of story to the one you've painstakingly read through for the past 78 chapters.
Finally, disappointingly for Gothic fiction, the shock-and-gore value of this book is far greater than the writing quality. I looked to be scared but never got any further than being repulsed or, more precisely, ick-ed.
The book would have benefited significantly from some heavier editing. Discovering that the author was also a screenwriter explains their obsession with pages and pages of speech, but an editor ought to have put a stop to that.
To summarise, I cannot think of a single thing to recommend this book, but please let me know if you ever choose to write the story which is on the blurb because I'm still waiting to read it.
July 6, 2025
I loved this book. It’s very well written and thought provoking. One can reread it several times.
Perhaps it’s marketed wrongly. It’s not a page turning thriller, not a detective story. It’s a piece of literature that one needs to read slowly and reread it in order to fully comprehend but in the end, you are left to your own interpretation. The ghost parts are so vividly described. The fear, the insanity. The sexuality is repelling. The quotes are well selected and thought provoking.
I know young people love books that have everything spelled out. Well this is not it. It is much deeper than that. It’s a great piece of work by someone who had a long life at the end of his life.
I found this book at a free-book counter in Greece. I will take it back for someone else to discover it.
I would republish it with a different cover and a new description. When the expectations align, readers will be left moved as much as I was.
Thank you.
Perhaps it’s marketed wrongly. It’s not a page turning thriller, not a detective story. It’s a piece of literature that one needs to read slowly and reread it in order to fully comprehend but in the end, you are left to your own interpretation. The ghost parts are so vividly described. The fear, the insanity. The sexuality is repelling. The quotes are well selected and thought provoking.
I know young people love books that have everything spelled out. Well this is not it. It is much deeper than that. It’s a great piece of work by someone who had a long life at the end of his life.
I found this book at a free-book counter in Greece. I will take it back for someone else to discover it.
I would republish it with a different cover and a new description. When the expectations align, readers will be left moved as much as I was.
Thank you.
April 13, 2021
Unfortunately I found this a tedious read. The only reason I kept going was I have set a reading goal of 52 books for the year and I didn't want to waste a few days getting half way through a book I didn't finish. The subject matter (ghosts) is not something I would normally read, the characters were unrealistic and conversations were also hard to follow and unbelievable. Some of the detail did not work ( the nurses wear cardigans over short sleeved dresses, how does the protagonist know they are short sleeved when they are wearing cardigans). Sophie turns up on a snowy Christmas Eve wearing a white silk dress. Pleeease, not realistic. Happy to be finished and can move on.
July 15, 2023
DNF.
This could have been so much more as it follows a soldier coming back home suffering from PTSD.
He suffers from all the symptoms that you hear about but the storyline is very confusing and hard to follow.
I gave up after 150 pages as by that time I expected to get the gist of the story but just became more confused 🤔 Pity, as I was looking forward to this book 📕
This could have been so much more as it follows a soldier coming back home suffering from PTSD.
He suffers from all the symptoms that you hear about but the storyline is very confusing and hard to follow.
I gave up after 150 pages as by that time I expected to get the gist of the story but just became more confused 🤔 Pity, as I was looking forward to this book 📕
May 15, 2017
confusing writing
August 13, 2017
Really not sure on this book, I think the cover is soo beautiful, but the story it's self is written confusingly, and I'm reading paragraphs more than once....
November 1, 2020
I found this book a bit confusing to be honest. It had all the elements of a good horror, but I couldn't keep track of what was happening and list interest in the story
February 10, 2022
I started reading it and had to stop because the plot became too confusing
August 7, 2024
Awful, chaotic in its writing and with a very tedious style. The main character was not thought through and so it was impossible to feel anything towards him but mild dislike.
December 26, 2025
1 - editor of this book should be sacked immediately
2 - I wonder what authors have been smoking at the time of writing this book...
Awful mess.
2 - I wonder what authors have been smoking at the time of writing this book...
Awful mess.
June 17, 2015
Time taken to read - 5 days
Publisher - Quercus
Pages - 472
Blurb from Goodreads
Captain Hal Stirling is flown to England from Afghanistan after a roadside bomb renders him battered and broken.
Once home, he retreats to his ancestral family seat of Stirling Towers--a gothic mansion that dominates the landscape near the remote Scottish Borders--for a Christmas of quiet recuperation. But on arrival he discovers that his mother, a fanatical spiritualist, has died and been hastily buried.
Isolated from the insular local community, Hal finds himself at the mercy of his mother's two mysterious nurses, the harshest winter on record and, before long, the horrific visions; experiences he attributes to his heavy medication. Yet as the December weather deteriorates, so does Hal's certainty that his home is a place of safety.
Who, or what, is trying to frighten him to death?
My Review
Oh I really hate to give a book 1 star rating and it is rare that I do but I honestly couldn't give it any higher. Captain Hal Stirling is going home to England, from Afghanistan after a roadside bomb goes off and he is injured. Hals home is a Gothic mansion, isolated and his mother and two nurses await him. However upon arrival home, his mother has passed and been buried, the weather is getting worse and Hal is at home with his two nurses and some horrific visions. Are they a result of his injury, is it his medications, do the nurses play a part in it or is it something else, supernatural in his home?
The book is very disjointed, it jumps around and to be honest I think this does add to what Hal has been through and gives authenticity to his experience. However, as a reader I was so confused to what was going on, was it real or was Hal imagining it? The themes didn't work for me, you had religion, animals being killed, a patient being drugged by nurses and sex all over the place. The issue of the nurses behavior and how it would fair with their governing body, like realistic things with unrealistic actions. Spirits, supernatural, disjointed visions and then introducing but what would their governing body say if they knew of their behavior. I honestly had a headache trying to keep up with it all and digest it.
Hal is a complex character, he has clearly been traumatized by what happened to him and in love with his girlfriend yet he then proceeds to sleep with almost everyone he comes into contact with. I really didn't like any of the characters in this story, I couldn't work out their behavior and even when I finished the story, I was left with more questions than I started with. 1/5 for me, some people did like this book so if you like a challenging read this would be a good one for you to try.
Publisher - Quercus
Pages - 472
Blurb from Goodreads
Captain Hal Stirling is flown to England from Afghanistan after a roadside bomb renders him battered and broken.
Once home, he retreats to his ancestral family seat of Stirling Towers--a gothic mansion that dominates the landscape near the remote Scottish Borders--for a Christmas of quiet recuperation. But on arrival he discovers that his mother, a fanatical spiritualist, has died and been hastily buried.
Isolated from the insular local community, Hal finds himself at the mercy of his mother's two mysterious nurses, the harshest winter on record and, before long, the horrific visions; experiences he attributes to his heavy medication. Yet as the December weather deteriorates, so does Hal's certainty that his home is a place of safety.
Who, or what, is trying to frighten him to death?
My Review
Oh I really hate to give a book 1 star rating and it is rare that I do but I honestly couldn't give it any higher. Captain Hal Stirling is going home to England, from Afghanistan after a roadside bomb goes off and he is injured. Hals home is a Gothic mansion, isolated and his mother and two nurses await him. However upon arrival home, his mother has passed and been buried, the weather is getting worse and Hal is at home with his two nurses and some horrific visions. Are they a result of his injury, is it his medications, do the nurses play a part in it or is it something else, supernatural in his home?
The book is very disjointed, it jumps around and to be honest I think this does add to what Hal has been through and gives authenticity to his experience. However, as a reader I was so confused to what was going on, was it real or was Hal imagining it? The themes didn't work for me, you had religion, animals being killed, a patient being drugged by nurses and sex all over the place. The issue of the nurses behavior and how it would fair with their governing body, like realistic things with unrealistic actions. Spirits, supernatural, disjointed visions and then introducing but what would their governing body say if they knew of their behavior. I honestly had a headache trying to keep up with it all and digest it.
Hal is a complex character, he has clearly been traumatized by what happened to him and in love with his girlfriend yet he then proceeds to sleep with almost everyone he comes into contact with. I really didn't like any of the characters in this story, I couldn't work out their behavior and even when I finished the story, I was left with more questions than I started with. 1/5 for me, some people did like this book so if you like a challenging read this would be a good one for you to try.
January 3, 2012
What a shockingly rubbish ending to an OK book.
Throughout the book I was like yeah this book is ok has some good parts. Other parts in the story i was completely lost, not knowing who was dead or alive! He would randomly carry someone to safety who was supposed to be dead then it just wouldnt mention that ever again leaving you thinking what the feck is happening here?! But i thought i shall keep reading surely the ended has got to be some big twist! But alas it never came and when it actually ended i was like...............that was it? No massive ending no twist just end.
It didnt have very good reviews on here or on the amazon site but i thought heck not everyone likes the same things. I found this before with Christopher Ransoms The People Next door that had mediocre reviews but i loved it!
This book had a few eerie and disturbing scenes but not enough to redeem the book.
I wouldnt really recommend, the only thing it had going for it was the fact that you just wanted to know how it ended even if it was bitterly disappointing!
Throughout the book I was like yeah this book is ok has some good parts. Other parts in the story i was completely lost, not knowing who was dead or alive! He would randomly carry someone to safety who was supposed to be dead then it just wouldnt mention that ever again leaving you thinking what the feck is happening here?! But i thought i shall keep reading surely the ended has got to be some big twist! But alas it never came and when it actually ended i was like...............that was it? No massive ending no twist just end.
It didnt have very good reviews on here or on the amazon site but i thought heck not everyone likes the same things. I found this before with Christopher Ransoms The People Next door that had mediocre reviews but i loved it!
This book had a few eerie and disturbing scenes but not enough to redeem the book.
I wouldnt really recommend, the only thing it had going for it was the fact that you just wanted to know how it ended even if it was bitterly disappointing!
May 1, 2013
I promised myself I would never bother reviewing a book if I couldn't give it at least 3 stars, but I have to make an exception for this one. The premise sounded good, was it a ghost story, or was someone just trying to make the main character think he was seeing ghosts?
Some parts were interesting, some were weird and then we come to the ending. Or rather, we're left wondering, was that it? There was no resolution, no denoument, no loose ends tied up. Instead the book just rambled on and just ... finished. Just like that, out of the blue. After over 400 pages, you were waiting for the payoff, but it never arrived. It felt such a waste.
Some parts were interesting, some were weird and then we come to the ending. Or rather, we're left wondering, was that it? There was no resolution, no denoument, no loose ends tied up. Instead the book just rambled on and just ... finished. Just like that, out of the blue. After over 400 pages, you were waiting for the payoff, but it never arrived. It felt such a waste.
March 1, 2016
I didn't really enjoy this book. I thought it was going to be a supernatural thriller - really spooky. Instead it ended up been very disjointed and not particularly scary.
Half the time I wasn;t certain what was going on as the narrative was very odd! The book descended itno some very strange situations that seemed almost reminiscent of fanfiction on the internet where the main character seems to do everything.
Wasn;t quite sure if it was all in the main characters head at the end which just made me feel like I had wasted my time. No real explanation of anything.
Sadly I wouldn't recommend this book.
Half the time I wasn;t certain what was going on as the narrative was very odd! The book descended itno some very strange situations that seemed almost reminiscent of fanfiction on the internet where the main character seems to do everything.
Wasn;t quite sure if it was all in the main characters head at the end which just made me feel like I had wasted my time. No real explanation of anything.
Sadly I wouldn't recommend this book.
March 14, 2014
I think I am being overly generous by giving this book two stars, but since my 1 star rating went to a book that actually made me throw up I reserve the privilege to a select few :S.
THe story of Hal Stirling was promising, war veteran coming back home to find so many things had changed, his mother passed away, the will had been re-written, what is really going on at 'the towers'...are there really ghosts or is Hal being poisoned? Unfortunately I cannot say what the story was really about because, I have no idea. The book changes tone from chapter to chapter, I had no idea sometimes who was talking to whom...really a nightmare.
THe story of Hal Stirling was promising, war veteran coming back home to find so many things had changed, his mother passed away, the will had been re-written, what is really going on at 'the towers'...are there really ghosts or is Hal being poisoned? Unfortunately I cannot say what the story was really about because, I have no idea. The book changes tone from chapter to chapter, I had no idea sometimes who was talking to whom...really a nightmare.
December 11, 2015
I'm not even sure this merits one star but I've given that for the cover which is what tempted me into parting with good money for a copy.
A disjointed and a poorly executed story about a man who is badly traumatised in an incident which took place when he was serving as a bomb disposal expert in Afghanistan. Returning to his family home, he is confronted by more tragedy and a series of unlikely events makes him start to question his judgement.
I wanted to like this book but didn't , so in the end, gave up.
A disjointed and a poorly executed story about a man who is badly traumatised in an incident which took place when he was serving as a bomb disposal expert in Afghanistan. Returning to his family home, he is confronted by more tragedy and a series of unlikely events makes him start to question his judgement.
I wanted to like this book but didn't , so in the end, gave up.
August 14, 2016
i'm going to give this book 2.5* - solely based on the writing.
i seriously enjoyed this book. i thought the plot was fantastic, and i had an inkling that there was something dodgy going on with the nurses.
the only thing that let me
down about this book is that i feel like a fair bit of the book could probably have been cut out - and that there could have been parts which could have had less written about them but then there were other bits that didn't have enough about them!!
get a decent editor and this book would have been a 4*!!!!
i seriously enjoyed this book. i thought the plot was fantastic, and i had an inkling that there was something dodgy going on with the nurses.
the only thing that let me
down about this book is that i feel like a fair bit of the book could probably have been cut out - and that there could have been parts which could have had less written about them but then there were other bits that didn't have enough about them!!
get a decent editor and this book would have been a 4*!!!!
November 15, 2014
I thought I was going to like this book as I had just given up on a very boring war story and this seemed to be lively and interesting.
Somehow it just got worse and worse. I read to the end but it was so rushed and oddly gory, as if someone had told the author to finish it quickly and add some horror, that I was very disappointed.
Somehow it just got worse and worse. I read to the end but it was so rushed and oddly gory, as if someone had told the author to finish it quickly and add some horror, that I was very disappointed.
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December 22, 2012Didn't finish
February 1, 2014
Absolutely awful. This is possibly the worst written, most lazily plotted book I have ever read.
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