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The Creep
Set in 1990, THE CREEP is definitely not for the faint hearted. It is a spell-binding thriller about a ruthless and cold blooded killer.
295 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1984
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November 10, 2012
This book is terrible. It tries way to hard to be interesting but it's truly not. The book just rambles on and on not really going anywhere, it's like the author knew this so he threw in tons of disgusting sex scenes to make it seem like the book is more interesting that it actually is. The only good things about this book is that I didn't pay for it and I am done reading it.
November 12, 2012
I am going to break my rule of always finishing a book once I have started. This book appears to have been written purely for shock value. I read to halfway and could see no discernible story line. I am not a prude but I found this book uncomfortable to read and will not be finishing it.
October 29, 2012
Loving this book.. it's bad to the bone.. but that's what makes it what it is..
November 6, 2014
Boring and tedious. Did not finish and couldn't careless how it ends.
June 14, 2023
Only cause I couldn't give less than 1 star.
September 7, 2014
Anybody who knows me will be able to tell you that when I read, I read. When I’ve picked up a book I go in to a whole new world, I’m a fly on the wall and it’s very difficult to separate me from my books.
I actually had to force myself to read this book! I found myself making excuses as to why I didn’t need to be reading it, during the course of this book I became the Queen of Procrastination. It’s absolutely terrible.
It’s horribly written, the characters are irritating beyond belief, the events are unrealistic and for the love of god, if you’re going to write about serial killers at least learn the basics of DNA!
If you have sex with someone your DNA will be all over them like a second skin, close intimate contact leaves bits of your DNA that you would not even consider on the other person. If you then killed the person, the police would have all kinds of evidence against you. Yet DNA is never ever mentioned, and that’s without even mentioning finger prints! The guy never seems to wear gloves either.
Beginning your book by slagging off a whole host of Serial Killers is not a good start if you’re not even willing to consider forensic evidence. I’m not asking you to learn Forensic Science, but put a tiny bit of effort in!
My next issue with this book is that if you’re going to write about an area, at least look at pictures of the area! There is no way you could race around the roads of London, there are congestion fees for a reason there! There is even less chance that you would be able to drive an American car onto the pavement, swerve around a lamp post and get back on to the road. If you came that close to a lamp post in London, it would be half way through your bonnet before you managed to drive around it.
The main character in this book says “Boogaloo” constantly, it is mentioned during the book that this guy is creepy because he has “death eyes” and says “Boogaloo”. Let me tell you right now, that is not creepy, that is just irritating, so irritating in fact that the author would have been better off writing a book designed to encourage the savage beating of anybody who says “Boogaloo” because that is how I felt by the time I got to the end of this book!
On top of all of this the typos littering the text really brought me out of the story. Errors are never acceptable in your work but they are forgiveable in a really good story because they’re less noticeable. In a book like this where you can pull it apart within the first four pages, it is unforgivable.
I’m not going to go in to much more detail because this review would be ridiculously long! However, what I will say is that the ending is extremely disappointing. For the effort it took to read the whole book (where many have failed – I might add) the end just got an eye roll. I won’t tell you the ending publically but I will tell you that the end was even more disappointing than getting to 60% and seeing the words “Book Two”
I actually had to force myself to read this book! I found myself making excuses as to why I didn’t need to be reading it, during the course of this book I became the Queen of Procrastination. It’s absolutely terrible.
It’s horribly written, the characters are irritating beyond belief, the events are unrealistic and for the love of god, if you’re going to write about serial killers at least learn the basics of DNA!
If you have sex with someone your DNA will be all over them like a second skin, close intimate contact leaves bits of your DNA that you would not even consider on the other person. If you then killed the person, the police would have all kinds of evidence against you. Yet DNA is never ever mentioned, and that’s without even mentioning finger prints! The guy never seems to wear gloves either.
Beginning your book by slagging off a whole host of Serial Killers is not a good start if you’re not even willing to consider forensic evidence. I’m not asking you to learn Forensic Science, but put a tiny bit of effort in!
My next issue with this book is that if you’re going to write about an area, at least look at pictures of the area! There is no way you could race around the roads of London, there are congestion fees for a reason there! There is even less chance that you would be able to drive an American car onto the pavement, swerve around a lamp post and get back on to the road. If you came that close to a lamp post in London, it would be half way through your bonnet before you managed to drive around it.
The main character in this book says “Boogaloo” constantly, it is mentioned during the book that this guy is creepy because he has “death eyes” and says “Boogaloo”. Let me tell you right now, that is not creepy, that is just irritating, so irritating in fact that the author would have been better off writing a book designed to encourage the savage beating of anybody who says “Boogaloo” because that is how I felt by the time I got to the end of this book!
On top of all of this the typos littering the text really brought me out of the story. Errors are never acceptable in your work but they are forgiveable in a really good story because they’re less noticeable. In a book like this where you can pull it apart within the first four pages, it is unforgivable.
I’m not going to go in to much more detail because this review would be ridiculously long! However, what I will say is that the ending is extremely disappointing. For the effort it took to read the whole book (where many have failed – I might add) the end just got an eye roll. I won’t tell you the ending publically but I will tell you that the end was even more disappointing than getting to 60% and seeing the words “Book Two”
February 3, 2013
This is not a good book. It's poorly written, whether one is referring to the noticeable typos or the abysmal plot. The sex scenes, which become dramatically more detailed over time, serve no purpose. I think they're supposed to be titillating, but instead come across as amateurish* (and worse, boring). The whole book, in fact, is colored by ineptness, with plot twists that are telegraphed from the earliest pages and characterizations that are as deep as "she's a blonde and she's good-looking." You know how a hit movie will come out and sometimes, you'll see a DVD at the store that's a clear rip-off? ["Hasn't everyone been talking about the movie with a talking pig? Isn't this it? *holds up DVD of Babbs: Big City Pig*] That's what this feels like.
*Little can illustrate the budget vibe of this mess better than its own advertising.
*Little can illustrate the budget vibe of this mess better than its own advertising.
July 15, 2013
I am sorry this is not a review. It is just a comment. This book is a very rare thing - it is a book I could not bring myself to read beyond the 30% point. I found it dreadful. Not thrilling, spine-tingling or even disturbing. Just dreadful. It is one long procession of unconvincing gross-out juvenile fantasy scenes leading ultimately to a poor, poor ending. Moving very swiftly on to something else ... anything.
January 25, 2013
A very poor book... Relied on shocking imagery, violence and sex in it extreme... It starts off well then deteriorates as it goes on...The ending is confused, and you are left both not knowing what is going on nor caring... The sequel will nit be gracing my kindle and I will be deleting this one... Thank God it was a freebie... Right, on to a good book next methinks...
January 17, 2014
I agree with other reviews, this seems to have been written for the shock element. I plodded along with an ok story line to have the ending of the book crammed into a few pages of a totally pointless conclusion : (
October 29, 2012
If you like lots of blood, murders and hot scene of sex, that's the best book for you.
January 5, 2013
Very bizarre book. Glad it was free would have been very disappointed otherwise.
December 26, 2012
Hmmm - I wonder if the author was as bored as I was - it certainly appeared that way! Cut and paste schlock fiction.
March 11, 2013
Very gory with graphic descriptions and to be honest a poor storyline and a very weak ending.
March 25, 2013
Disjointed and hard to keep my interest. Random acts of violence in a very poor story. A good idea for a story line but it fails to deliver. Probably one of the worst books I have ever read.
June 10, 2013
DULLLLLLLL
it gets an extra star for the shock value
it gets an extra star for the shock value
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