Slow Poison has been available on Amazon for a few weeks now, so I thought I would share a few of the reviews I have received so far. I love to know what you think too.
For those of you who have yet to sample Slow Poison, here is a link to Chapter One: Slow Poison Chapter One
Surprisingly different, unique and elegant but shockingly dark
Slow Poison is beautifully written and has a darkness, a violence, that creeps up on you and comes as a total surprise. I can honestly say that I haven’t read anything like this before, it’s certainly unique, and I enjoyed it. This is a story of how slow, creeping revenge can reach out from the past and effect what’s happening right now, and not in a good way. There’s a shocking case of mistaken identity which leaves a killer at large but; there’s also a diary with a world of darkness at it’s heart. There are multiple layers of planning and plotting as you travel from one era to the next, one location to the next, but it’s handled well and you don’t feel lost. Strange, quirky, took me a while to get into the style of writing but certainly worth downloading because it’s so different. (from http://manorfarmbooks.co.uk/slow-poison/)
Disturbing and not implausible, 19 Oct 2012
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Martin C (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Slow Poison (Kindle Edition)
This is a good play on mistaken identity - the imprisonment of a youth for a shocking murder in Amsterdam when, it eventually transpires, the real murderer is another person who has an agenda of death to meet on others in vengeance for the mayhem he once experienced on a seedy Gloucestershire estate.I was first attracted to this book because of the contrast between the beautiful Cotswolds, which I know quite well, and the brutality which, I had thought, irreconcilable with such a place.
Perhaps more interesting though, is that the killer is incited to commit his trail of murders by coming under the influence of a diary written about the WWII death camps and I do sometimes wonder whether, even today, society somewhere, in some country, might still be so fragile as to have failed to recognise when evil can creep back again.
The story has pace and though it didn't have the love of the language that I like to find in an author, it stimulated thought and awakened me from some of my too comfortable preconceptions.
4.0 out of 5 stars
So much potential, 16 Oct 2012
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This review is from: Slow Poison (Kindle Edition)
I think that with a bit of editing, this book would have been a masterpiece. The electronic version at least is quite hard to follow in places as the chapters etc are not clearly marked. However the content made up for some of this. I love the style; page upon page of beautifully written prose, always with a dark edge. Some of the scenes are very graphic in their violence and sexual content, but with so much more lying under the surface.I was left with a lot of open questions, which is just how I like my books. I would love to quiz the author. The scenes that took place on the council estate touch areas that are seldom explored, and I found myself both fascinated and repelled by the characters.
I would definitely read more by this author.
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