Review: Keep You Near

Keep You Near by Robin Roughley
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Got this from the Bookbub email-letter as a freebie. Well I am glad, I did not pay for it.
The grammar reads a little confusing (not entirely sure if it is wrong), too many people-POV, and only at 69% in the book the story-lines get together.

Trigger Warning: tl dr: you name it, this book has it...
torture, abuse, bullying, child-abuse, pedophelia, BWS, mental health issues. Surprisingly high body count, graphic and violent deaths.

MC is a bit to deep in. Her next supurior and partner (?) is not very fleshed out and not very convincing, at times sounded like a dumb sidekick, not like a surperior and was too often surprised by some of the evil people do and some suggestions as to what might have happend by the MC. Lets me question how he rose in ranks.

The writing feels fractured in too many POVs, too many important people, and not enough suspense.
If I remember correctly, all persons get a little background, even minor side ones. This ads nothing to the crime-story and supports the boredom I felt reading this book.
While I liked the short chapters, with each new chapter you stumble in a different POV, only in the end you have a longer suspensful sequence.

Also one of the POV was from a mentally ill person, which was hard to get into, although well written as far as I can tell.

The case and its conclusion is very harsh and interesting, the writing not so much. Not recommended, there are better books available, and I am not convinced I will read more of this series. Still 3 stars for the crime and the conclusion. The reading time (ca. 3 weeks) reflects that I had to read shorter, lighter, better books in between.

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Review: Keep You Near

Keep You Near by Robin Roughley
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Got this from the Bookbub email-letter as a freebie. Well I am glad, I did not pay for it.
The grammar confusing (not entirely sure if it is wrong), to many people-POV, and only at 69% in the book the story-lines get together.

Trigger Warning: tl dr: you name it, this book has it...
torture, abuse, bullying, child-abuse, pedophelia, BWS, mental health issues. Surprisingly high body count, graphic and violent deaths.

MC is a bit to deep in. Her next supurior and partner (?) is not very fleshed out and not very convincing, at times sounded like a dumb sidekick, not like a surperior and was too often surprised by some of the evil people do and some suggestions as to what might have happend by the MC. Lets me question how he rose in ranks.

The writing feels fractured in too many POVs, too many important people, and not enough suspense.
If I remember correctly, all persons get a little background, even minor side ones. This ads nothing to the crime-story and supports the boredom I felt reading this book.
While I liked the short chapters, with each new chapter you stumble in a different POV, only in the end you have a longer suspensful sequence.

Also one of the POV was from a mentally ill person, which was hard to get into, although well written as far as I can tell.

The case and its conclusion is very harsh and interesting, the writing not so much. Not recommended, there are better books available, and I am not convinced I will read more of this series. Still 3 stars for the crime and the conclusion.



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Review: Hafenmord

Hafenmord by Katharina Peters
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Lent with Kindle Unlimited.
Liked the writing, the case and the MC.
As it is playing in the time it was published (2014) good use of technology, just the right amount, not too much or too SF-like, keeping it real.
Recommended, will probably read more in this series, but the other books are currently too expensive and not on Kindle Unlimited (for now?).
Rated 3.5 stars rounded up to 4 stars for a first in a series.

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Review: Hafenmord

Hafenmord by Katharina Peters
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Lent with Kindle Unlimited.
Liked the writing, the case and the MC.
As it is playing in the time it was published (2014) good use of technology, just the right amount, not too much or too SF-like, keeping it real.
Recommended, will probably read more in this series, but the other books are too expensive and not on Kindle Unlimited (for now?).

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Review: Sühnekind

Sühnekind by Caroline Parker
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Lent with Kindle Unlimited, read most of it in FF mode, ok-ish, but not really interesting for me.
The crime-scenes are well done, the MC and others do not interest me enough.
Glad I lent it, paying for it would have been too much, writing is just not gripping enough for me.
Others may like it.

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Review: Kalte Wut ... TODESFLUT

Kalte Wut ... TODESFLUT by Paul Rheinfels
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Lent with a 2 month 99 ct./month Kindle Unlimited Trial.
DNFed it after 2-3 chapters. Writing was a detailed description of a few bloody massakers, could have been my kind of book, but did not grip me. Detected so far no errors and did what KU is for: gave it back unread, the author will not receive much money for it, as the authors of KU ebooks are paid by pages read ...


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Review: Blue Monday

Blue Monday by Nicci French
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

As the family (my mother, my sister and my nice) are reading this in German translation and are all quite fond of the series, I tried it in english.
Not a book for me, ok-ish, and as I have another book by Nicci French, Secret Smile (already bought), I will look into that, but probably not read more by her.
If you are into lots of inner musings by the MC, this might be the book for you, Frida Klein is a rather interesting character and I like her style of living.
The book takes place in the UK (London again, big yawn), with a lot of walking by foot taking place and a few rather good descriptions of places, but somehow that did not grip me as it did in other books taking place in the UK. Also, due to the timeframe (no smartphones) and the MC not even owning a mobile phone, not a lot of technology.
The crime-story is not very suspenseful and the investigation takes too long.

So, 2 nice unexpected twists near the end could not save this for me, barely 3 stars for a first in a series I will not recommend and most probably not visit again.

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