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Enjoyed this story about elderly women who run a charity shop and solve murders. I made two alt-covers for the book with pretty different vibes and techniques. Although I like the first one I guess the second one matches the Cozy Mystery setting much better.
Image Compilation and Vector Illustrating techniques.
REVIEW
Savage Gods by Peter Boland
John Savage Action Thriller #4
Wow...just WOW!
This book started with John on the way to cool down at the beach although he never did put his toes in the water because he was too busy thwarting evil before it could take place on said beach. It moved on from that introduction to DCI Jane Roberts and DI Roberts in a horrific murder scene followed by another linked murder. The police become involved in solving the murders and protecting potential victims that might be next in line to be killed by a suspected serial murderer. DCI Roberts requests the assistance of John and Tannaz and they accept. By the end of the book more than one case being tied up in a bow although there is a BIG question I have that I won’t voice here as it would definitely be a spoiler!
What I liked:
* John: I so admire John! He has been through so much, is so strong and yet he does have issues he has to deal with. I would love to get to know him better and hope to do so in the future. He is a man among men.
* Tannaz: John’s friend and surrogate daughter is brilliant and a person I want to get to know better. She has skills on the computer, in combat and in keeping the boogie man away.
* DCI Roberts: I want to know more about her. She is a tiny but mighty force to be reckoned with
* The plot and story with its twists and turns
* The action scenes and how they played out.
* The police procedural aspects
* The solving of the mysteries
* How John and Tannaz took some bad guys down
What I did not like:
* The bad guys I was meant not to like
* The callous greediness some characters exhibited
* That the book ended and I want to find out what happens next knowing I will have to wait…
Thank you to the author and BOTBS for the ARC – This is my honest review.
5 Stars
Book Description:
FROM #1 BEST-SELLING AUTHOR IN AMAZON CRIME ACTION & ADVENTURE. He only kills atheists. Pray that God’s on your side. A serial killer stalks the streets of London, murdering atheists in the most horrific ways. So far, it’s only the loud, outspoken ones who’ve been targeted. Specifically, a controversial group of intellectuals called The Four Pillars of Atheism. Attacking religion and angering believers, they’ve amassed enough hate mail and death threats to keep the police busy until hell freezes over. DCI Roberts and her team have too many suspects and are drowning in leads. The pressure is on her to catch the killer before another horrific murder is committed. Not helped by the fact that London is in the grip of a sweltering heat wave. Desperate times call for desperate measures. DCI Roberts reaches out to John Savage and Tannaz to help her find the killer. Trouble is, Savage has his own personal demon to battle. Can he defeat one and catch the other?
Author Bio:
After studying to be an architect, Pete realised he wasn’t very good at it. He liked designing buildings he just couldn’t make them stand up, which is a bit of a handicap in an industry that likes to keep things upright. So he switched to advertising, writing ads for everything from cruise lines to zombie video games.
After becoming disillusioned with working in ad agencies, he switched to writing novels (or was it because he just wanted to work at home in his pyjamas?). He soon realised there’s no magic formula. You just have to put one word in front of the other (and keep doing that for about a year). It also helps if you can resist the lure of surfing, playing Nintendo Switch with his son, watching America’s Next Top Model with his daughter and drinking beer in a garden chair.
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Following on from the John Savage series of mystery thrillers, this is the third instalment. Although I have never read the previous outings, this has not taken away from my overall enjoyment of Boland’s exciting next chapter.
The novel focusses on the mystery of missing children which Savage gets dragged in following the disappearance of his next door neighbour’s son. This is where the story takes a turn to delve deep into the mystery behind the crime rather than being a social commentary about the crimes itself.
The characters are very well written and using humour, horror and well drawn humanistic traits helps draw the reader into its web; Savage is an interesting character who has his demons and faults but this makes him more personable to the reader. The relationship between Savage and Tannaz is a winning formula. The dark underworld that is explored within by its characters are deeply absorbing as well.
The plot keeps strictly to the mystery and doesn’t spend time rehashing in full details of what happened previously unlike a Harry Potter book where a couple of hundred pages are bogged down with exposition of the previous books. This is where Boland is able to pepper the past into the main mystery without using long winded narrative. This is a treat and helps the reader read this as a stand alone but gives the readers enough in-house knowledge if you are a fan of the series.
Overall, this is an absorbing and gritty murder mystery and that treats his hero as a human being who is smart, intelligent but does have a nerdy slant to him, although it seems from his style of dress. Using the genre of mystery thriller and keeping above the norm and going beyond the paint by numbers approach that this genre sometimes hits, sets this apart from previous novels of this ilk. This is a real page turner that keeps the reader involved whilst given them an exciting thrill ride to the very end. Highly recommended.
REVIEW
Savage Children by Peter Boland
John Savage Action Thriller #3
Compelling characters crack the case…
What case, you ask?
Well, there is this serial killer taking children from parks and the only clue is a drawing by the missing child stuffed through the mailbox door of the child’s home. The police are stumped and even though they are looking another child seems to disappear every couple of weeks. When the killer takes John Savage’s ten year old neighbor, a child he likes and spends time with, it becomes personal. So, he learns what he can, calls in his computer savvy much younger Iranian friend Tannaz and the two get to work looking for Callum.
How are the children being taken? Where are they are disappearing to? What is happening to them? Will any of them turn up again? If ex-SAS operative Savage has anything to say about it Callum will be returned to his divorced parents in one piece hale and hearty even if it does mean not immediately sharing with the police all of the clues he and his partner find along the way.
Tannaz and Savage make a good team even though they are quite different. I would love to know how the two met and imagine that is probably mentioned in a previous book. The two find clues online, and here and there and sleuth and search and interact with street gangs, a supremacist group that is very racist comes into play and the two also have interactions with the police.
The task of finding out what happened to Callum is not easy or linear. It take them through some twists and turns that are intriguing. I will say that there were a few surprises for me even though I read the end before I reached it chronologically.
What I liked:
* The complexity of John Savage
* The fact that Savage was retired, still fit and had personality
* The dynamics between Savage and Tannaz
* The way the story unfolded
* The twist(s) at the end
* Finding out who the Archangel was and what happened to the children
What I did not like:
* The Archangel
* One of the police on the case
* Realizing once again that people can be warped
* Wondering what the Archangel was doing during the years between the time he first started taking children and what ended up being the motivator for his crimes.
Did I enjoy this book? Yes
Had I ever read anything by this author before? No
Was it necessary to read the previous two books and prequel to understand this book? No
Would I read more by this author/in this series? Yes
As the prequel, Savage, is available free through a link at the back of the book I would recommend reading it to get a feel for Savage before reading this book.
Thank you to the author who gifted me an ARC of this book through Books on the Bright Side ~ This is my honest review.
4.5 Stars
BLURB
FROM #1 BEST-SELLING AUTHOR IN AMAZON CRIME ACTION & ADVENTURE.
Children are disappearing from London parks. Caught on CCTV, they go in but never come out again…
Days after each disappearance, the distraught parents receive a hand-drawn picture of their child as an angel. A sign they’ll never see them again. The police have no clues or leads. All they have is a nickname for the abductor – the Archangel. When Savage’s neighbour’s ten-year-old son Callum becomes a victim, he vows to find him, and catch this Archangel. Savage has his headstrong friend Tannaz to help him. This time it’s going to take more than her brilliant computer skills to find the truth. They’ll have to enlist the help of some new friends – and some old enemies.
As more children go missing, Savage realises the Archangel is a formidable adversary. Clever, elusive and terrifying. Savage also has the police on his back, watching his every move. The deeper Savage becomes involved, the more he realises all is not what it seems…
A twisty, chilling, action-packed thriller for fans of Lee Child and David Baldacci.
AUTHOR BIO
After studying to be an architect, Pete realised he wasn’t very good at it. He liked designing buildings he just couldn’t make them stand up, which is a bit of a handicap in an industry that likes to keep things upright. So he switched to advertising, writing ads for everything from cruise lines to zombie video games.
After becoming disillusioned with working in ad agencies, he switched to writing novels (or was it because he just wanted to work at home in his pyjamas?). He soon realised there’s no magic formula. You just have to put one word in front of the other (and keep doing that for about a year). It also helps if you can resist the lure of surfing, playing Nintendo Switch with his son, watching America’s Next Top Model with his daughter and drinking beer in a garden chair.
LINKS
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