Fear Itself

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A good thriller - Rated
The premise of this book was so dark and original that I couldn't wait to read it. It was definitley readable and the plot flowed differently to most crime thrillers but I did feel that it missed that certain something that any Michael Connelly book seems to have. I don't think the author has published much but think any future works will be promising and I'll definately give them a go.

Finally a serial killer original... - Rated
I'll admit that just before I read this book I said I was serial-killered out. Boring and passé. The days of the serial killer thriller were over for me.

But what a page turner and what an original! There's no mystery to be solved here, it's a chase novel - will they won't they catch him? Will the main characters, who we grow to love, be saved? They are all suffering from some sort of phobia and their deaths reflect this. And there's another reason for originality. My God, the main character is just on the point of retiring and there's a love story - and she's not at least twenty years younger than him with the perfect body and no obvious hang ups. Pender is simply wonderful and Dorie, a good match for him.

The characterisations in this book are excellent and they are what spurs the story along. They also add another dimension to the book. We may have an absolutely awful villain but he has a very special relationship with his sister who has Down's Syndrome. She has the innocence of child and is struggling. Her brother is the product of a tortured childhood (OK, so what's new there?), but he's not initially so easy to hate because of the way he looks after his sister.

I haven't read "The Girls He Adored", but I want to now. As for serial-killered out - well I opened the door and had a very good read with this book. I'm glad I didn't let prejudice get in the way. Interesting too, to discover so many phobias that I had no clue existed. But I'll stop here before my phobia about exceeding Amazon's review word count kicks in.

Fear Itself - not as good as the blurb suggests - Rated
After really enjoying The Girls he Adored, I had been patiently waiting for the release of this book. Finally at the airport I spotted it. I did enjoy it but the blurb on the back of the book was only mentioned in passing in the actual novel and one of the pieces of info was wrong anyway. The problem is knowing who the killer is so early on which doesn't add much suspense. I did find it difficult to put it down and read it in a couple of days but it was not as gripping as his first one.

Fear Itself - a good title - Rated
This is a story of a man who finds out peoples fears and kills them using the fear. It is edgy and cruel but it held me in suspense during all of one hot day. The story also features a couple who find themselves bound together to find the man responsible for the murders, these two also have phobias of their own which he manipulates at every turn. A good chilling read well recommended for someone who has the time to read it in one go- you'll have to!