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The Angel Collector
It’s eight months since Sophie went missing after attending a summer music festival. The police search has led nowhere and Jit, Sophie’s best friend and soulmate, is slowly going crazy not knowing what’s happened to her. He has to DO something. So he begins a search that will take him all over Britain, tracking down the people Sophie met at the festival, and following the clues he finds.
Jit’s search eventually takes him to the remote farmhouse in Scotland that is home to a racist cult. Surely he is close to finding the answers. But then everything falls into place, and the horrific and unimaginable truth comes to light….
Jit’s search eventually takes him to the remote farmhouse in Scotland that is home to a racist cult. Surely he is close to finding the answers. But then everything falls into place, and the horrific and unimaginable truth comes to light….
- GenresYoung AdultMystery
272 pages, Paperback
First published June 7, 2007
61 people want to read
About the author
Bali Rai
80 books72 followersBali Rai was born in 1971 and grew up in Leicester. As a child, Bali wanted to be a footballer or to write stories. Always an avid reader, he hails Sue Townsend, Douglas Adams and Robert Swindells as his writing heroes. Bali grew up reading Dr Seuss and Meg and Mog and his first book purchase was The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. He realised he wasn't good enough to play for Liverpool F.C. and after gaining a politics degree in London he returned to his home city and combined a variety of jobs in pubs and clubs with completing his first novel. Bali set about writing a story he had been thinking about for many years. He wanted to write accessible material for children of all ages and backgrounds and realising there were no British Asian authors writing for children, he saw a gap. Bali hopes his novels capture the unique ethnic mix of the UK, of which he is proud to be a part.
Bali writes stories inspired by his working class Punjabi/Sikh background, but his aim was always that his writing should be enjoyed by readers everywhere, irrespective of class or culture. His has the ability to tackle the harsh realities of growing up in the UK and blend this with humour and often a overriding optimism. Bali visits schools and libraries in every major UK city, averaging 70 school and library events a year.
His first book, (un)arranged marriage, created a huge amount of interest and won many awards, including the Angus Book Award and the Leicester Book of the Year. It was also shortlisted for the prestigious Branford Boase first novel award. Rani and Sukh and The Whisper were both shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize.
All of Bali’s teen titles have been short-listed for awards across the UK, including twice making the Booktrust Teenage Prize shortlist. His third novel Rani and Sukh has represented the UK at the International IBBY awards and this title has its own Facebook tribute group set up by fans. Bali’s first three novels appear in The Ultimate Teenage Book Guide. Bali also writes shorter novels for Barrington Stoke, his first book, Dream On, was selected for the Booktrust’s inaugural Booked Up list. He also writes the hugely popular Soccer Squad series for younger readers.
Bali writes stories inspired by his working class Punjabi/Sikh background, but his aim was always that his writing should be enjoyed by readers everywhere, irrespective of class or culture. His has the ability to tackle the harsh realities of growing up in the UK and blend this with humour and often a overriding optimism. Bali visits schools and libraries in every major UK city, averaging 70 school and library events a year.
His first book, (un)arranged marriage, created a huge amount of interest and won many awards, including the Angus Book Award and the Leicester Book of the Year. It was also shortlisted for the prestigious Branford Boase first novel award. Rani and Sukh and The Whisper were both shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize.
All of Bali’s teen titles have been short-listed for awards across the UK, including twice making the Booktrust Teenage Prize shortlist. His third novel Rani and Sukh has represented the UK at the International IBBY awards and this title has its own Facebook tribute group set up by fans. Bali’s first three novels appear in The Ultimate Teenage Book Guide. Bali also writes shorter novels for Barrington Stoke, his first book, Dream On, was selected for the Booktrust’s inaugural Booked Up list. He also writes the hugely popular Soccer Squad series for younger readers.
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July 15, 2007
My boss told me to read this one - I think she liked it better than I did. It's hard to define why exactly it didn't do it for me, but I think it's mostly stylistic.
'The Angel Collector' is a sort of thriller - Jit's best friend Sophie is kidnapped from a music festival, and eight months later he finds he can't just sit around when he believes she's still out there. So mostly it's Jit talking to people, piecing together clues. There are also segments from the point of view of Sophie's kidnapper, and excerpts from Jit & Sophie's emails and MSN conversations. The story ends quite suddenly, and perhaps the whole thing wasn't as cohesive as I would have liked.
The segments from the kidnapper's POV particularly bugged me; it's the whole thing where you talk about them without naming names, being very oblique, and rather than finding it intriguing, it annoys me. I was also put off, in the main text, by the dialogue - which was written the way I suppose the characters would have spoken, but as they're British and I'm not, it was quite hard-going.
In the end I wasn't convinced by the story - I was reading it, but not getting involved in it. Despite being in first person, Jit's actions didn't always make sense to me. I just couldn't get into it, and though the climax should have been exciting, I just wasn't there. So in all, somewhat of a disappointment.
'The Angel Collector' is a sort of thriller - Jit's best friend Sophie is kidnapped from a music festival, and eight months later he finds he can't just sit around when he believes she's still out there. So mostly it's Jit talking to people, piecing together clues. There are also segments from the point of view of Sophie's kidnapper, and excerpts from Jit & Sophie's emails and MSN conversations. The story ends quite suddenly, and perhaps the whole thing wasn't as cohesive as I would have liked.
The segments from the kidnapper's POV particularly bugged me; it's the whole thing where you talk about them without naming names, being very oblique, and rather than finding it intriguing, it annoys me. I was also put off, in the main text, by the dialogue - which was written the way I suppose the characters would have spoken, but as they're British and I'm not, it was quite hard-going.
In the end I wasn't convinced by the story - I was reading it, but not getting involved in it. Despite being in first person, Jit's actions didn't always make sense to me. I just couldn't get into it, and though the climax should have been exciting, I just wasn't there. So in all, somewhat of a disappointment.
February 8, 2024
It's my first time reading something abt cults in a story and I think Bali did a good job of describing it.
I like the character development of Jit as at first he can't control his anger issue but as the story progress, his patience improved so I learned to tolerate his personality but certainly he's not the best main character to have.
What i didn't like was how the women were portrayed, it was as if they don't have much significance as they were not well-utilized in the story. Maybe aside from Anna because she's kinda helpful in a way. But most women were portrayed as something awful and it doesn't sit right with me. Also the trans part. It could have been worded a bit more thoughtfully.
I should have known who the killer was but i'm blindsided by the fact that.. damn.
I like the character development of Jit as at first he can't control his anger issue but as the story progress, his patience improved so I learned to tolerate his personality but certainly he's not the best main character to have.
What i didn't like was how the women were portrayed, it was as if they don't have much significance as they were not well-utilized in the story. Maybe aside from Anna because she's kinda helpful in a way. But most women were portrayed as something awful and it doesn't sit right with me. Also the trans part. It could have been worded a bit more thoughtfully.
I should have known who the killer was but i'm blindsided by the fact that.. damn.
April 21, 2018
A terrifying tale of disappearing girls and murder with a real twist at the end.
November 15, 2024
The more I read the book I got very keen on finding out the killer. Was not expecting the ending.
October 10, 2011
I had to read The Angel Collector for a class on library services to children and young people, and it's left me torn and with a lot to ponder when it comes to collection development for young adult readers.
In a nutshell, The Angel Collector is a murder mystery thriller for 'the yoofs of today' - imagine James Paterson or Silence of the Lambs repackaged for E4. Our troubled hero is Jit, a teen whose friend Sophie goes missing after attending a music (and apparently New Age) festival. Jit's obvious reaction to this is to assemble a crack team of teenagers and travel the country investigating cults and serial killers because of course. The adults in the story are generally okay with this or are otherwise missing.
If my synopsis seems a little harsh in tone, allow me to rein it in a little with some praise. Rai has a good grasp of contemporary teen voices and isn't afraid to do something like, say, glibly refer to someone snorting paracetamol with a credit card like it was cocaine. The subject matter here is unpleasant and draws the characters into very dark circles, so it's refreshing (if a little queasy) to see that the kid gloves are off.
Jit also deals with anger management issues and frequently lashes out, and it's good to see teens given a narrator who isn't squeaky clean or without unfocused teen rage.
Finally, I was impressed by Rai's rendering of his native Leicester (and it was nice to see the East Midlands!) - dialect and lighthearted regional jibes pop up and add a flourish of colour and humour to an otherwise dark story.
But for each of Rai's strengths there is a weakness. He occasionally falters in his recreation of the teen voice, dating the book terribly with clunky references to iTunes and MP3s when dealing with a generation who I doubt would describe digital formats with such detail (having experienced nothing else) - "I listened to a song" becomes something similar to "I opened iTunes and downloaded an MP3." Worse still, the explicit language, gore and drug references are laden on with a heavy hand and eventually become gratuitous, and while some light peppering of this kind of thing would have suggested a mature and realistic depiction of teens, the glut of severed heads and "fuck"s is cumbersome.
We're also treated to a good deal of flat characters, such as Jenna, a stoner who spends a lot of time getting stoned (just as I thought we might explore Jenna's addictive personality she was promptly dumped and replaced by plucky young Anna, who seems to serve no other purpose than to show us that the ladies like Jit). Women in general don't do so well in The Angel Collector - if mothers aren't absent they're abusive, and if they don't like Jit it's probably because they're man-hating pretend lesbians. Speaking of which, there's also a great deal of transphobia, and it's believable given the age of our characters, but this is never properly addressed despite the he/she jokes about one character coming thick and fast.
It's a shame that the book suffers so much from its flaws, because I will admit that it was a true page-turner (and this is coming from someone typically uninterested in the genre). I generally liked Jit and I enjoyed that Rai experimented with the narrative by including emails and instant messenger conversations. But unfortunately so much of the relationship between Jit and Sophie seemed incidental and flimsy (the object of Jit's affection and his motivation for playing detective is, for all intents and purposes, a few text messages and some emoticons), and the grand climax was unsatisfying: predictable, abrupt, and leaving a rather bad aftertaste.
It's not all bad though. I'll be checking out some more Bali Rai stuff as it looks as though his strength lies in characterising young Britain, and I'm intrigued by the racial issues his other books seem to deal with. Heaven knows why he's wasting characters like Jit on derivative thrillers: teenagers have enough problems and conflicts without having to add a hokey serial killer into the mix.
In a nutshell, The Angel Collector is a murder mystery thriller for 'the yoofs of today' - imagine James Paterson or Silence of the Lambs repackaged for E4. Our troubled hero is Jit, a teen whose friend Sophie goes missing after attending a music (and apparently New Age) festival. Jit's obvious reaction to this is to assemble a crack team of teenagers and travel the country investigating cults and serial killers because of course. The adults in the story are generally okay with this or are otherwise missing.
If my synopsis seems a little harsh in tone, allow me to rein it in a little with some praise. Rai has a good grasp of contemporary teen voices and isn't afraid to do something like, say, glibly refer to someone snorting paracetamol with a credit card like it was cocaine. The subject matter here is unpleasant and draws the characters into very dark circles, so it's refreshing (if a little queasy) to see that the kid gloves are off.
Jit also deals with anger management issues and frequently lashes out, and it's good to see teens given a narrator who isn't squeaky clean or without unfocused teen rage.
Finally, I was impressed by Rai's rendering of his native Leicester (and it was nice to see the East Midlands!) - dialect and lighthearted regional jibes pop up and add a flourish of colour and humour to an otherwise dark story.
But for each of Rai's strengths there is a weakness. He occasionally falters in his recreation of the teen voice, dating the book terribly with clunky references to iTunes and MP3s when dealing with a generation who I doubt would describe digital formats with such detail (having experienced nothing else) - "I listened to a song" becomes something similar to "I opened iTunes and downloaded an MP3." Worse still, the explicit language, gore and drug references are laden on with a heavy hand and eventually become gratuitous, and while some light peppering of this kind of thing would have suggested a mature and realistic depiction of teens, the glut of severed heads and "fuck"s is cumbersome.
We're also treated to a good deal of flat characters, such as Jenna, a stoner who spends a lot of time getting stoned (just as I thought we might explore Jenna's addictive personality she was promptly dumped and replaced by plucky young Anna, who seems to serve no other purpose than to show us that the ladies like Jit). Women in general don't do so well in The Angel Collector - if mothers aren't absent they're abusive, and if they don't like Jit it's probably because they're man-hating pretend lesbians. Speaking of which, there's also a great deal of transphobia, and it's believable given the age of our characters, but this is never properly addressed despite the he/she jokes about one character coming thick and fast.
It's a shame that the book suffers so much from its flaws, because I will admit that it was a true page-turner (and this is coming from someone typically uninterested in the genre). I generally liked Jit and I enjoyed that Rai experimented with the narrative by including emails and instant messenger conversations. But unfortunately so much of the relationship between Jit and Sophie seemed incidental and flimsy (the object of Jit's affection and his motivation for playing detective is, for all intents and purposes, a few text messages and some emoticons), and the grand climax was unsatisfying: predictable, abrupt, and leaving a rather bad aftertaste.
It's not all bad though. I'll be checking out some more Bali Rai stuff as it looks as though his strength lies in characterising young Britain, and I'm intrigued by the racial issues his other books seem to deal with. Heaven knows why he's wasting characters like Jit on derivative thrillers: teenagers have enough problems and conflicts without having to add a hokey serial killer into the mix.
August 31, 2012
I read 'Rani & Sukh' by this author and really enjoyed, then I saw this one and decided to try it. However it got pushed to the back of my locker at work and forgotten about. I had a tidy up last week and took all the books out and found this. I re-read the synopsis and thought it was definitely not my sort of readbut for some reason I couldn't put it back, I ended up picking it up and putting it down a number of times before i put it in my bag to bring home.
The majority of the book was intriguing and I sort of enjoyed it, I worked out who was responsible for it quite early on but stuck with it, but there were some chapters/bits that made my spine crawl and sort of freaked me out. It is definitely not my usual style and I can't believe I finished it.
The book is narrated mainly by 'Jit' his best friend Sophie disappeared 8 months ago at a music festival, he always had a crush on her and the pair had a pact that they would always find each other again if anything ever pulled them apart, and now Jit is determined to live up to that promise. Jit is a typical teen in fiction for the fact that he is bursting with 'angst' and aggression and the feeling that no-one seems to understand him *eye-roll*, but despite this I know he is trying to do what is right and just get his friend back so although I didn't agree with everything he did, I know he did it for the best.
Every few chapters there is a break in the story and a chapter is narrated by 'The Angel Collector' - a psychopath who abducts and tortures girls I think with the idea that he is 'redeeming them' to make them his 'Angels'. It was creepy and weird and I shuddered every time I saw the Angel wings indicating his chapters and I started sort of skim reading them. They were just too creepy for me, I couldn't do it. I really am a wimp.
On Jit's journey to find Sophie you meet a host of people from both their pasts, Anna & Jenna are party girls but really try their best to help. Then the trail leads you through 'Mickey, David, Simon, Ritter, Corey and a load more' but I didn't ever really find myself confused with who was who, each person is dealt with and clearly defined that I knew what was happening.
There is also a 'cult' storyline, Everyone believes Sophie was snatched by 'Shining Moon' a crazy guy who leads a cult against coloured people, trying to restore the planet to just white people. It was kind of a sub-plot but to me it didn't really feel necessary other than to be shocking and create a cover for the real culprit.
So I would say in a way I did enjoy the book, but it was just a bit too creepy for me and it made me all paranoid and fidgety. If you like murder mysteries and don't mind 'decapitation' and abuse and other really creepy psychotic acts of abuse then you would probably really enjoy this, but for me it just wasn't my thing and I really wonder what made me want to read this so much, as I kind of wish I hadn't. I so hope I don't get nightmares!
The majority of the book was intriguing and I sort of enjoyed it, I worked out who was responsible for it quite early on but stuck with it, but there were some chapters/bits that made my spine crawl and sort of freaked me out. It is definitely not my usual style and I can't believe I finished it.
The book is narrated mainly by 'Jit' his best friend Sophie disappeared 8 months ago at a music festival, he always had a crush on her and the pair had a pact that they would always find each other again if anything ever pulled them apart, and now Jit is determined to live up to that promise. Jit is a typical teen in fiction for the fact that he is bursting with 'angst' and aggression and the feeling that no-one seems to understand him *eye-roll*, but despite this I know he is trying to do what is right and just get his friend back so although I didn't agree with everything he did, I know he did it for the best.
Every few chapters there is a break in the story and a chapter is narrated by 'The Angel Collector' - a psychopath who abducts and tortures girls I think with the idea that he is 'redeeming them' to make them his 'Angels'. It was creepy and weird and I shuddered every time I saw the Angel wings indicating his chapters and I started sort of skim reading them. They were just too creepy for me, I couldn't do it. I really am a wimp.
On Jit's journey to find Sophie you meet a host of people from both their pasts, Anna & Jenna are party girls but really try their best to help. Then the trail leads you through 'Mickey, David, Simon, Ritter, Corey and a load more' but I didn't ever really find myself confused with who was who, each person is dealt with and clearly defined that I knew what was happening.
There is also a 'cult' storyline, Everyone believes Sophie was snatched by 'Shining Moon' a crazy guy who leads a cult against coloured people, trying to restore the planet to just white people. It was kind of a sub-plot but to me it didn't really feel necessary other than to be shocking and create a cover for the real culprit.
So I would say in a way I did enjoy the book, but it was just a bit too creepy for me and it made me all paranoid and fidgety. If you like murder mysteries and don't mind 'decapitation' and abuse and other really creepy psychotic acts of abuse then you would probably really enjoy this, but for me it just wasn't my thing and I really wonder what made me want to read this so much, as I kind of wish I hadn't. I so hope I don't get nightmares!
February 1, 2016
The Angel Collector by Bali Rai.
This is a Young Adult book that I found really interesting. I thought it was well written in a style of teenage language which really interlocks in your mind to keep reading. The characters were developed to fit right in to the psychological mystery thriller it proclaimed to be. Some of the context was tense and demanding that connected the authenticity and emotional truth to approach difficult issue for teenagers. Some offensive subjects are written in a way that opens areas of discussion for the reader to figure out the motivations of the issue on their own. The author made it easy for the reader to read between the lines and not give away any spoilers until three quarters of the way through the story. For myself I was shocked when I started to sense a connection of who the villain was. Throughout the book there was a page or two with additional comments from the 1CThe Angel Collector 1C.
It 19s a story of Sophie, a teenager girl, missing and after eight months the police just place it on the back burner. However, Jit, the main character with a high IQ and narrator, starts his own investigation. He was Sophie 19s best friend and soul mate who can 19t accept the fact she might be dead. Plus, Sophie 19s father, Stephen was close to Jit and also pushed Jit into looking for his daughter. They kept in contact by phone everyday relating back and forth with any latest clues either one of them would come up with. Stephen was helping by keeping a connection with the police.
Jits journey takes him from Leicester to Birmingham, London, Newcastle, and eventually Scotland. He took a few notes as he questioned people but most of it was on a list he kept in his head. He read the police report and took the information to the very beginning to where and who Sophie was last seen with when she disappeared. He left no rock unturned and came across some discrepancies and false leads but never gave up. The more Jit dug into some of the people Sophie was last with and the more weird stuff he found out, the angrier he got. The police bypassed information that they should have looked into. As Jit meets with some of the people that Sophie was around he discovers a cult in the mix and that other girls that had gone missing. That information was not in the police report. Being headstrong, Jit decides to invade the cult 19s farm compound where he thinks Sophie might be hidden 26What 19s going to happen next 26? Will Jit meet up with, 1CThe Angel Collector 1D?
This is a Young Adult book that I found really interesting. I thought it was well written in a style of teenage language which really interlocks in your mind to keep reading. The characters were developed to fit right in to the psychological mystery thriller it proclaimed to be. Some of the context was tense and demanding that connected the authenticity and emotional truth to approach difficult issue for teenagers. Some offensive subjects are written in a way that opens areas of discussion for the reader to figure out the motivations of the issue on their own. The author made it easy for the reader to read between the lines and not give away any spoilers until three quarters of the way through the story. For myself I was shocked when I started to sense a connection of who the villain was. Throughout the book there was a page or two with additional comments from the 1CThe Angel Collector 1C.
It 19s a story of Sophie, a teenager girl, missing and after eight months the police just place it on the back burner. However, Jit, the main character with a high IQ and narrator, starts his own investigation. He was Sophie 19s best friend and soul mate who can 19t accept the fact she might be dead. Plus, Sophie 19s father, Stephen was close to Jit and also pushed Jit into looking for his daughter. They kept in contact by phone everyday relating back and forth with any latest clues either one of them would come up with. Stephen was helping by keeping a connection with the police.
Jits journey takes him from Leicester to Birmingham, London, Newcastle, and eventually Scotland. He took a few notes as he questioned people but most of it was on a list he kept in his head. He read the police report and took the information to the very beginning to where and who Sophie was last seen with when she disappeared. He left no rock unturned and came across some discrepancies and false leads but never gave up. The more Jit dug into some of the people Sophie was last with and the more weird stuff he found out, the angrier he got. The police bypassed information that they should have looked into. As Jit meets with some of the people that Sophie was around he discovers a cult in the mix and that other girls that had gone missing. That information was not in the police report. Being headstrong, Jit decides to invade the cult 19s farm compound where he thinks Sophie might be hidden 26What 19s going to happen next 26? Will Jit meet up with, 1CThe Angel Collector 1D?
February 20, 2016
Well, the first few pages started off alright, but then it kind of puttered out up until the climax which brought me back in.
I mean, it would probably hold the attention of a thirteen-year-old quite well, though I must say it is very dark at points. I suppose that’s why it’s confusing. The whole mystery and interviewing-of-witnesses process is almost sped through, and it’s lampshaded by the characters how unnaturally willing said people are to help. Then again, the reveal is one which wouldn’t be out of place in a horror-thriller for adults.
It’s an alright book; I was really hoping to be able to give it higher than three stars but I just don’t think I can. If it were less rushed, and if the characters felt more real, it could have been a very exciting novel. Instead, to fit in with its supposed target audience’s genre conventions, it becomes a little bland, and characters feel neither real nor multi-layered.
The little inserts from the other perspective are intriguing, shall we say, and are fittingly disturbing for someone who buys and kidnaps young women.
I suppose it’s quite cool how the book captures so many locations in the UK, but they aren’t described enough to really differentiate themselves from one another – if I wasn’t familiar with some of these places myself then I probably wouldn’t have been able to imagine them at all. Also, if you expect me to believe that two people from the East Midlands navigated their way around central London with no problems, you’ve got another thing coming; I was there today and I’ve lived in this city my whole life but I still ended up wandering in the wrong direction a lot.
Oh, and there is far too much reported speech. If your dialogue isn’t interesting enough to mention, don’t just skip it, make it more interesting.
And it’s going on nine years old at the time of my review, so the references to flip phones and MSN messenger make it just that tiny bit dated, and not really in a charming way.
It could have been a lot better if it was more fleshed out, and less rushed. Three stars.
I mean, it would probably hold the attention of a thirteen-year-old quite well, though I must say it is very dark at points. I suppose that’s why it’s confusing. The whole mystery and interviewing-of-witnesses process is almost sped through, and it’s lampshaded by the characters how unnaturally willing said people are to help. Then again, the reveal is one which wouldn’t be out of place in a horror-thriller for adults.
It’s an alright book; I was really hoping to be able to give it higher than three stars but I just don’t think I can. If it were less rushed, and if the characters felt more real, it could have been a very exciting novel. Instead, to fit in with its supposed target audience’s genre conventions, it becomes a little bland, and characters feel neither real nor multi-layered.
The little inserts from the other perspective are intriguing, shall we say, and are fittingly disturbing for someone who buys and kidnaps young women.
I suppose it’s quite cool how the book captures so many locations in the UK, but they aren’t described enough to really differentiate themselves from one another – if I wasn’t familiar with some of these places myself then I probably wouldn’t have been able to imagine them at all. Also, if you expect me to believe that two people from the East Midlands navigated their way around central London with no problems, you’ve got another thing coming; I was there today and I’ve lived in this city my whole life but I still ended up wandering in the wrong direction a lot.
Oh, and there is far too much reported speech. If your dialogue isn’t interesting enough to mention, don’t just skip it, make it more interesting.
And it’s going on nine years old at the time of my review, so the references to flip phones and MSN messenger make it just that tiny bit dated, and not really in a charming way.
It could have been a lot better if it was more fleshed out, and less rushed. Three stars.
June 6, 2013
Well this was weird.
It is the stangest book i have ever read. quite simply.
It was good but i got a bit creeped out. So basicly this boy, jit was trying to find this girl, sophie who was one of his really good friends and he was in love with her. She had gone missing 8 months ago and jit could not focos on anything. He set out to find sophie with jenna, sophies best friend, by asking all potential wittness who were at the festival with her. As they work out and piece together all the clues, they realise a strange cult is at the heart of there investigation. As Jit travels to scotland, leaving jenna behind, jenna is captured by the same person who took sophie. Jit is with anna and micky trying to break into the secret cult's base. As the cult flees one is left behind, Simon, and jit collects the infomation from him. Basicly Jit phones the kidnapper and goes down to get jenna and sophie. In the end, jit kills the kiddnapper and he sophie and jenna walk out alive.
The kidnapper is SOPHIES DAD!!
Told you it was weird.
It was to do with when he was younger and his mother only wanted a girl not a boy. He basiclly became a transfestit and became a serial killer. He called himself the angel collector and collect girls who were innececnt and had blue eyes and blonde hair. He severed their heads off and experimented on them. He had mulipulated the whole thing with jit and all because he hadn't wanted him to find sophie.
So yeah.
It is the stangest book i have ever read. quite simply.
It was good but i got a bit creeped out. So basicly this boy, jit was trying to find this girl, sophie who was one of his really good friends and he was in love with her. She had gone missing 8 months ago and jit could not focos on anything. He set out to find sophie with jenna, sophies best friend, by asking all potential wittness who were at the festival with her. As they work out and piece together all the clues, they realise a strange cult is at the heart of there investigation. As Jit travels to scotland, leaving jenna behind, jenna is captured by the same person who took sophie. Jit is with anna and micky trying to break into the secret cult's base. As the cult flees one is left behind, Simon, and jit collects the infomation from him. Basicly Jit phones the kidnapper and goes down to get jenna and sophie. In the end, jit kills the kiddnapper and he sophie and jenna walk out alive.
The kidnapper is SOPHIES DAD!!
Told you it was weird.
It was to do with when he was younger and his mother only wanted a girl not a boy. He basiclly became a transfestit and became a serial killer. He called himself the angel collector and collect girls who were innececnt and had blue eyes and blonde hair. He severed their heads off and experimented on them. He had mulipulated the whole thing with jit and all because he hadn't wanted him to find sophie.
So yeah.
July 28, 2014
The book was very good at keeping the kidnapper's identity hidden and build up to the reveal, however the fact that a teenage boy found all this out is a little doubtful. I liked the switching of points f views is affective and as soon as you think that you know who the killer is they do something that makes you question it. If I am honest I did laugh at some points but I am not going to say why because it would spoil it…
April 1, 2013
i really nice plot twist that you dont see coming at all, when i read the first page i was inlove with the book already it was just drew me in but as i continued reading it;i just got bored and started to loose my interest until i got to the end where it all got good, but it just ended, just like that, i was like 'is that it'?
April 13, 2010
not one for me - guessed the 'serial killer' after the first few chapters flipped to the back read the last few chapters to confirm my suspicions (I was right) shades of Psycho crossed with Priaml Fear
January 21, 2009
Fantastic book and really draws you in- worth reading for anybody looking for a real mystery.
A little clue: 'The truth is right in front of you!'
A little clue: 'The truth is right in front of you!'
January 1, 2011
**SORT-OF SPOLIER**
One hell of a creepy book. I KNEW it was the girl's *her name has evaded me* dad!!!
(F*ck, does this count as a spoiler?)
One hell of a creepy book. I KNEW it was the girl's *her name has evaded me* dad!!!
(F*ck, does this count as a spoiler?)
July 9, 2012
Skin-crawling
October 8, 2012
I really like this author, and this book is written really cleverly with a great unexpected twist :)
Want to read
October 11, 2010again, another book with a character that has my name grrrrr.
September 8, 2015
very awesome
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