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Broken Monsters, by Lauren Beukes

Broken Monsters, by Lauren Beukes

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IN A BROKEN CITY, A DISTURBED KILLER IS TRYING TO REMAKE THE WORLD IN HIS IMAGE.

Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit's standards: half-boy, half-deer, somehow fused together. And it's only the first.

As winter closes in on Detroit, strange and disturbing corpses start turning up in unusual places, pulling several lives into the killer's orbit.

Gabi has to juggle the most harrowing case of her career with being a single mom to her troubled teen daughter Layla.

Layla, egged on by her best friend Cas, is playing a dangerous game with an online predator.

Broken Monstersis a dark and gripping thriller about the death of the American Dream, online fame, creativity, compromise and the undercurrents of the world we live in right now.

Author Lauren Beukes
ISBN 9781415202005
Format Paperback
Pages 440p.
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Broken Monsters

This is a horror book that initially reads like a thriller before turning out to be a horror book. It took some time for the numerous plots to converge due to the multiple points of view. Personally, I was more interested in the viewpoint of the fierce detective woman. In fact, I would have liked if her had been the only voice used throughout the whole narrative. I liked that Detroit was chosen as the book's setting. The setting of a run-down city gave the stories a rich layer of depth and appeal. The story was laced with so much criticism about sexism and racial discrimination.

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