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Wicked Games
On a cold wet Sunday morning an abused woman’s escape plan spectacularly backfires when four people are shot dead in a massacre on the bloody streets of a seaside northern city centre.
Another plan is needed fast, but the clock is ticking. She has hours to break free or face certain execution when night finally falls.
When the assassin turns up her house, she must flip him and turn a human killing machine against her enemies. He is her only hope of survival. But he’s not for turning, unless she can somehow convince the cold-blooded hitman to risk his own life to save hers.
Another plan is needed fast, but the clock is ticking. She has hours to break free or face certain execution when night finally falls.
When the assassin turns up her house, she must flip him and turn a human killing machine against her enemies. He is her only hope of survival. But he’s not for turning, unless she can somehow convince the cold-blooded hitman to risk his own life to save hers.
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Andrew J. Field
9 books15 followersAndrew J Field lives with Catherine by the sea, next to the docks, near three bridges (but not that one), close to the border. He previously lived in Manchester. Armed with an MA from Manchester University, he writes post-modern ironic noirish thrillers. A member of the Society of Authors, Andrew likes coffee, dry white wine and scoffing fish and chips overlooking the Tweed estuary.
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May 4, 2017
Victims and/or survivors of very stressful situations such as wars or even abuses suffer the consequences of these events in a way most of us will probably never fully understand. Also, they will probably carry those scars through their entire lives (through a PTSD or scars from a suicide attempt, for example).
In Wicked Games, 2 victims of different types of violence meet under even more violent situations, and they see in one another the chance they have to start over. But if you are waiting for a romance, sorry to disappoint you. This book will touch you in your wound, and will play with your emotions in a way that I doubt another book could.
China has been abused for years by a group of "dirty bastards", and from one of these abuses she gave birth to Rose. Rose was taken away from her, and she is afraid she would have the same destiny as her - a life of abuses and humiliation. China decides then that it is about time she rescued Rose and ran away to start a new life in a sunny place.
Jak Hart (without a c and an e) crosses her path after being hired by one of China's rapists to kill someone else. He suffers from a severe PTSD, and although China saw him as her savior, as her chance to running away alive, he has other plans for himself and simply leaves China to her fate.
However, a few hours later, he finds out that the same men that hired him as a hitman are the ones that have been abusing China, and worse: they are all pedophiles.
Jak decides to turn back and help China, and from this moment on it is pure adrenaline until the last page.
Andrew Field uses no metaphors to describe the pedophiles and their actions, as well as the abuses suffered by China, or the traumas Jak carries with him, and I believe it is just the way it happens in the real world: it is raw, salvage, bad and dirty, and unfortunately, in many times, the ones that were supposed to protect us from these things are the ones most involved in them, promoting and financing them, generating a lot of suffer into innocent people's lives.
A fiction work that unfortunately could have been based in real facts.
A big thank you to Andrew Field, who kindly sent me a reviewer copy of this book with a very kind note. Wish you a lot of success! And in case you ever turn this book into a movie, can you please have Claire Danes as Sophie Deeks?
Please check my blog for other reviews and comments: mypapertrips.wordpress.com
Denise
In Wicked Games, 2 victims of different types of violence meet under even more violent situations, and they see in one another the chance they have to start over. But if you are waiting for a romance, sorry to disappoint you. This book will touch you in your wound, and will play with your emotions in a way that I doubt another book could.
China has been abused for years by a group of "dirty bastards", and from one of these abuses she gave birth to Rose. Rose was taken away from her, and she is afraid she would have the same destiny as her - a life of abuses and humiliation. China decides then that it is about time she rescued Rose and ran away to start a new life in a sunny place.
Jak Hart (without a c and an e) crosses her path after being hired by one of China's rapists to kill someone else. He suffers from a severe PTSD, and although China saw him as her savior, as her chance to running away alive, he has other plans for himself and simply leaves China to her fate.
However, a few hours later, he finds out that the same men that hired him as a hitman are the ones that have been abusing China, and worse: they are all pedophiles.
Jak decides to turn back and help China, and from this moment on it is pure adrenaline until the last page.
Andrew Field uses no metaphors to describe the pedophiles and their actions, as well as the abuses suffered by China, or the traumas Jak carries with him, and I believe it is just the way it happens in the real world: it is raw, salvage, bad and dirty, and unfortunately, in many times, the ones that were supposed to protect us from these things are the ones most involved in them, promoting and financing them, generating a lot of suffer into innocent people's lives.
A fiction work that unfortunately could have been based in real facts.
A big thank you to Andrew Field, who kindly sent me a reviewer copy of this book with a very kind note. Wish you a lot of success! And in case you ever turn this book into a movie, can you please have Claire Danes as Sophie Deeks?
Please check my blog for other reviews and comments: mypapertrips.wordpress.com
Denise
May 2, 2019
A teenage mum must fight dirtier than the evil bastards who have sexually abused her by seducing and turning their hired hitman against them.
Wicked Games is about two lost souls, abused and used by those who should only give them love and trust. They can only survive, or find redemption, if they unite and fight as one. The tortured teenage mum and the hitman with post traumatic stress disorder.
This was a story about a woman who was hurt by some men and needs to take her life back.
This is a great psychological novel.
It deals with dark subject matter of abuse but with gaining your life back from any area of darkness that you deal with.
Well worth taking the time to read.
Unfortunately this story could be happening for real even though this is based on fiction.
Recommend reading.
Many thanks to Boomslang Books and NetGalley for a different kind of read.
Wicked Games is about two lost souls, abused and used by those who should only give them love and trust. They can only survive, or find redemption, if they unite and fight as one. The tortured teenage mum and the hitman with post traumatic stress disorder.
This was a story about a woman who was hurt by some men and needs to take her life back.
This is a great psychological novel.
It deals with dark subject matter of abuse but with gaining your life back from any area of darkness that you deal with.
Well worth taking the time to read.
Unfortunately this story could be happening for real even though this is based on fiction.
Recommend reading.
Many thanks to Boomslang Books and NetGalley for a different kind of read.
March 8, 2019
In the realm of psychological suspense this novel stands alone. Exploring the nature of human evil In this extraordinary novel
November 8, 2019
Update 6th January 2019:
I felt terrible for not giving this a full chance and reading the whole book. So when the author emailed to say a new version was available on NetGalley but without the editing problems the first had incurred, I decided to give this another chance.
I think it was the initial editing problems that made the book feel like a script as I didn’t notice this problem the second time.
However, I stand by my comments below that the story and writing seemed somewhat erratic. It was jumping all over the place, and it was tough to keep up with all the different characters. Also, the scenes didn’t play out fully, and you would be jumping from one moment to about ten minutes later, and you were left baffled as to what was going on.
Overall, the book felt very rushed and not very well planned out.
I’m glad I gave it a proper go, though, but I will stick with the one-star rating that I initially gave it.
Review 14th December 2018:
I’m afraid I had to give up on this after the first chapter (out of the 115 books I’ve read this year I’ve only done that with two others, so it’s not a regular occurrence of mine).
The writing style was so bizarre, it seemed really erratic and all over the place. I didn’t have a clue what was going on; it was like I’d come into the middle of a book. I know when you start a book, it’s all new and you have to find your bearings, but with this one, it just seemed impossible. It almost seemed more like a script than a novel the way it was written; I’m not sure if that was intentional?
So I’m really sorry, but this book just wasn’t for me.
Thanks for reading! If you want to see more of my reviews visit www.pinkanddizzy.com
I felt terrible for not giving this a full chance and reading the whole book. So when the author emailed to say a new version was available on NetGalley but without the editing problems the first had incurred, I decided to give this another chance.
I think it was the initial editing problems that made the book feel like a script as I didn’t notice this problem the second time.
However, I stand by my comments below that the story and writing seemed somewhat erratic. It was jumping all over the place, and it was tough to keep up with all the different characters. Also, the scenes didn’t play out fully, and you would be jumping from one moment to about ten minutes later, and you were left baffled as to what was going on.
Overall, the book felt very rushed and not very well planned out.
I’m glad I gave it a proper go, though, but I will stick with the one-star rating that I initially gave it.
Review 14th December 2018:
I’m afraid I had to give up on this after the first chapter (out of the 115 books I’ve read this year I’ve only done that with two others, so it’s not a regular occurrence of mine).
The writing style was so bizarre, it seemed really erratic and all over the place. I didn’t have a clue what was going on; it was like I’d come into the middle of a book. I know when you start a book, it’s all new and you have to find your bearings, but with this one, it just seemed impossible. It almost seemed more like a script than a novel the way it was written; I’m not sure if that was intentional?
So I’m really sorry, but this book just wasn’t for me.
Thanks for reading! If you want to see more of my reviews visit www.pinkanddizzy.com
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