Broken Monsters
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (897 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00I828856 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 543 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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But this one is unique even by Detroit's standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. If you're Thomas Keen, known on the street as TK, you'll do what you can to keep your homeless family safe--and find the monster who is possessed by the dream of violently remaking the world.If Lauren Beukes's internationally bestselling The Shining Girls was a time-jumping thrill ride through the past, her Broken Monsters is a genre-redefining thriller about broken cities, broken dreams, and broken people trying to put themselves back together again.. "Scary as hell and hypnotic. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams?If you're Detective Versado's geeky teenage daughter, Layla, you commence a dangerous flirtation with a potential predator online. I couldn't put it downI'd grab it if I were you." --Stephen KingA criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukes's new genre-bending novel of suspense.Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. If you're desperate freelance journalist Jonno, you do whatever it takes to get the exclusive on a horrific story
I'd grab it, if I were you."Stephen King"Dig it: what a brilliant crime-phantasmagoria novel this is!!!!! This splendid novel is THE new primer on urban decay to the nth degree. Her prose is unhindered, exuberant and something like addictive--you can tell yourself you're just going to read one chapter, but before you know it, you've gone through 100 pages. Beukes moves effortlessly through many of the city's worlds, from police precincts to the Internet-driven secret lives of teenage girls and the homeless shelters and mostly dead neighborhoods of a hobbled American city, all while teasing a disturbingly beautiful and possibly supernatural universe existing at its borders."New York Times Book Review"Captivating A thoroughly modern, supernatural thriller."Karolina Waclawiak,
She's the author of the critically-acclaimed international best-seller, The Shining Girls, about a time traveling serial killer, Zoo City, a phantasmagorical Joburg noir which won the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award, the neo political thriller, Moxyland. . She worked as a journalist and as show runner on one of the South Africa's biggest animated TV shows, directed an award-winning documentary and wrote the New Y
This book stunk. Zero stars is more accurate. Kenneth John Windfelder Was listed as one of the 30 best horror books of all time, I read most of the others on that list and loved them all. That is why I gave credibility to the list and purchased this loser book. No real action, 180 pages to get the least interesting and the author was afraid to make anything happen until the end.. so good TheAnsonia Because of grad school, I haven't been reading much fiction lately. And I"m a huge fiction fan. Anyway, this is the first book I read after graduating and my only regret is reading it so fast. I finished it in two nights and didn't get enough sleep. I'm not one for getting into details on reviews of books or other forms of entertainment, but I thought the characters were so well drawn and the themes felt very relatable. I highly recommend this book. I have moved on to reading other books by her at the local library. I love this book!. I'm struggling here jjdhmi This is a book from a very talented writer. The character are perfectly drawn and fascinating. I think I just eventually tired of the plot and wished it had ended sooner.