Troubled teen Polly Ann Sterling teams up with escaped mental patient Will, and together they embark on a killing spree, vowing to take out as many paedophiles and sex offenders as possible.
Branded as 'The Justice Killers' by the press and seen as heroes by the pubic, they bring the country to it's knees in their quest to bring back the death penalty.
I was either going to be a writer or a serial killer.
Maybe one day I'll be both.
So far I have written...
The 'Polly the Paedophile Slayer' Trilogy Victim of Modern Education Victims of Justice Word Gets Around Machine Gun Jesus Aggressive Depressive V is for Violence Alienate Polly and Will Love to Kill Destiny of a Girl A Farewell To Demons The Actor, the Writer and the Dominatrix Machine Gun Zombie Gangster's Moll What Now? Coma Cop Help! Our Television Swallowed Us! Twenty Pence Piece Noises Choices Voices
As you can tell by the title this is not a fairy tale, it had a fair amount of violence which is to be expected with a book of this nature.
I enjoyed this book, I ended up reading it in one go as I really got into the story.
Love the idea of revenge and getting justice. A few of the methods of murder did make me shudder slightly, such as the boiling water and the incident with the eyeballs ( not wanting to spoil the story).
I smiled with the petrol scene and the mention of mr blonde.
I found Polly and Will quite likeable characters in an unusual way and I look forward to reading the second part :-)
Polly begins a killing spree when she bumps into the man that raped her years earlier, and she targets known paedophiles and rapists. After each murder she writes 'FOR THE KIDS' on the wall in the victims blood. She befriends Will, a total lunatic who saves her from a dangerous situation one night and they embark on this blood soaked journey together. They are branded as heroes by the press and the public as their online videos about bringing back the death penalty for sex offenders go viral. I'll be honest this unsettled me slightly when I started it and wasn't sure if I would finish it, but I couldn't stop thinking about it and picked it back up. I'm glad I did. It's a dark social commentary that really made me think. Would the press and public really brand these two as heroes, even though they are committing such violent murders? Considering the people they are killing, I'm sure they would. It also made me question myself, could I really root for these killers who could bite out a man's eyeball or hack a man's penis off? Well the simple answer is yes. Yes I could. It was shorter than I hoped but I get the feeling the author is just testing the water with this one, as it is left wide open for a sequel. Possibly the most dangerous book I've ever read and it's all the more satisfying because of it.
After being raped by her tap dancing teacher at 14 and losing both of her parents at 16, Polly's life spirals into drug and alcohol abuse until one fateful night when she is 18 when she bumps into the guy who raped her. After first seducing him and then brutally murdering him she begins to murder more known sex offenders.
Along the way she befriends a recently escaped mental patient named Will who is so besotted by Polly he comes along for the ride.
This book is definitely not for the squeamish as the violence is very graphically detailed, but one can expect that with a title like 'Polly the Paedophile Slayer'. It's a tad shorter than I would like but I have read it twice as I found it highly entertaining and fast paced with a very dark humour.
All in all I liken this to a dumb 90 minute action movie, it may not win any Oscars but you just can't keep your eyes off it. Well worth a look.
The title of this lets you know what you're in for and it doesn't disappoint! It's a darkly funny ultraviolent joyride that gets better the further you get into it which just left me wanting more by the end. Bring on a follow up!
This also contains my favourite line I've ever read, when a wheelchair bound paedophile ex-priest begs Polly to spare his life because he is dying from cancer anyway, she simply replies -