City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff
The story is straightforward, but well-told, and the ending is as close to happy as it can realistically be, with a nasty but predictable twist hidden behind a more unexpected and gut-wrenching one.
City of Thieves (****½) is a splendid, gripping read with a dark sense of gallows humour [...]
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City of Thieves by David Benioff - Review
The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black - Review
The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black
This is the second novel by John Banville writing as Benjamin Black, and the second outing for the pathologist Quirke, a new star of the whodunit, here caught up in a ‘grimy suburban melodrama’ of murder, adultery, revenge, sex, drugs and sadomasochism. Freed from the Booker judges’ gaze, Banville indulges [...]
Children’s Gothic Reviews
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
To get rid of the parents and allow the hero of this novel to set off on his own, the ever-thorough Neil Gaiman has them butchered in their beds. The boy escapes and ends up in the local cemetery, where, in a charming Jungle Book parallel, he is taken in [...]
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