Showing posts with label Thriller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thriller. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Aberration 18+


Aberration
4 of 5 stars false1/2
FBI analyst Kassidy Bishop is assigned to the “For You” killer’s task force after a series of sadistic murders bearing the same signature arise in different parts of the country.
The homicides are both calculated and savage, occurring in different states, but bearing the same signature: the words “for you” scribbled at each crime scene. The case chills Kassidy, bringing back memories of her own encounter with a violent criminal five years earlier.
Kassidy’s mentor, legendary agent Talia “The Confessor” Crossen knows the task force assignment is Kassidy’s chance to prove to her colleagues that she belongs in the Behavior Analysis Unit. For five years, other FBI agents and profilers scoffed at Kassidy’s appointment to the BAU, believing she was only offered the position in exchange for her silence about the brutal assault that almost killed her.
The stakes rise when the task force links the killer’s signature to Kassidy. As more and more bodies turn up, Kassidy must delve into her past and the mysterious death of her twin sister, which holds the key to uncovering the killer’s identity.
The closer Kassidy comes to finding the killer, the closer she comes to a deadly confrontation that could cost her everything—including her own life.

Review

****This book was part of a blog tour I was given a copy for my honest review****
I don't believe I need to do a recap of this book, the blurb has done such a lovely and thorough job and to say anymore would be to spoil the book.
Mystery- thrillers or Suspense- thrillers are not usually my thing. I like my books to be liberally dosed with romance, but every now and again it is good to try something different.
Aberration is one of the best of its kind that I have read. It was addictive, with wonderfully descriptive writing, and a interesting plot. Although I have to admit to knowing who the killer was earlier on, it did not detract from the story at all, or the suspense of it. You are left to figure out why? That was a bit more fun that your usual who did it type book.
The two pov's,one of Kassidy and the other the serial killer were both very good, but I must admit to enjoying the inner workings of the serial killers mind better. (Weird, maybe?)
If you do not have the stomach for gory reads or descriptive crime scenes, then maybe this book won't be for you, it is definitely detailed *shudders*.
Although this is not usually my thing I have to say I really enjoyed this read, and by enjoy I mean, I now sleep with the night light on and may need another year between this book and another of its genre, it was that intense. A book that affects you though is always a book that is worth the effort, yes? If thrillers are your thing... then give this author a go, I guarantee you it will get your heart pumping and give you creepy "who's watching me" goosebumps.
4.5 stars!
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

What Rough Beast

2.5-3 stars

Phillip Todd is a normal army brat and baby boomer with one small exception: a super human power to control all sentient beings.
Like Superman he takes years to uncover and develop his powers, beginning at the tender age of three by coercing his neurotic mother and later advancing to psychic pranks on the Order of the Perpetually Disgruntled Nuns at his Catholic grade school. In public middle school he rids himself of a bullying juvenile delinquent with cruel zeal. His formative adolescent years as an army dependent in post war Germany merely increases his autocratic demands for sensual experimentation and psychic domination.
He uses and abuses anyone near; particularly Jill, the precociously ripe daughter of his father’s commanding Colonel and Wanda, his mother’s friend and frustrated wife of a feckless Lieutenant. When an overweening sexual dalliance with Jill is discovered by a vicious PFC Phillip tortures and nearly kills the man. When his father’s tour in Germany is winding down Phillip, both frightened and enthralled with his power, conceives an alter ego as a means of self analysis and revelation, Dr. Fear, a fictional confidant whom he plans on turning into a future comic book icon.
However, Phillip is suddenly tormented by waking nightmares and psychotic hallucinations and he takes extreme measures to rid himself of these by eliminating Wanda’s husband and lastly Jill and her family. However, on the return trip to the States hopeful that he has ended the psychotic breaks, he is confronted by another terrifying hallucination.

Review

****I was given a copy of this book  for my honest review****
 Phillip has powers that allow him to control "sentient beings," he has no problem using his powers to get what he wants. He controls people and thinks he is untouchable because of his powers. He has hallucinations and nightmares that scare him; his solution to this problem is disturbing. I really liked this book, the characters were interesting and Phillips early antics had unexpected moments of humor. This book was a sci-fi, I thought of it more as a psychological thriller. Phillip seemed to be a mix of a sociopath with a split personality and a horn dog focused only on getting sex. This book did have a good storyline, but I have to point out the editing. I am not a huge grammar or spelling Nazi, if there are a few errors in a book I don't knock of points. However, this book had so many of these errors it made reading certain parts of this book difficult. If this book was properly edited it would be a solid 4 stars for me, as it stands I am stuck between 2.5 and 3 stars. 

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