Book Swap: Bad Moon Rising by Sheila Quigley

[kipper22]

An excellent start to this whole book swap! On the whole, I found it easy to read, although I kept wanting to read in a geordie accent (which I cannot do, even in my head!) I liked the fact that the story kept me guessing 'who dunnit' for a long while by not having one simple cut and dried answer. On the same note, glad that not everything was all tied up and happy in the end. The only negative I can think of is that I just can't understand why so many people seemed to be in on the final sting - who were the ladies celebrating a divorce? Why did the barman know 'Mac'? Oh, and I was a little concerned by the amount of men with facial deformities in one town - I reckon Lorraine's lucky to have found a gorgeous, unblemished man! I'd definitely be interested in reading her other stuff.

Book received, and I was just about to post on here that I dont want to read the book ... but kipper, your review made me chuckle three times, and now I am tempted to read it.

I love reading in an accent! And I am intrigued about the 'facial deformities' theme.

I didnt want to read it because reading the bumpf on the back seems to involve grisly murders of young women, and I am really off reading about horrid stuff. Know that sounds really wimpy but since having dd I cant even watch the news because of all the nasty stuff that happens in the world and I dont want to think about it.

Now that sounds like I'm only going to read nice flowery books about kittens, which isnt what I meant, so I'll simplify my point and say I dont like murders/whodunnits/thrillers/gory books ... but will try this coz you have tempted me kipper.

Oh I forgot about that. I have started to baulk a bit about books with murders involving children as well now I have got DS. I really should be more sensitive.

oh no! hope i haven't led you into anything too gruelling bw! completely off the point, did you get a book on baby signing? because i have a kiddy version with simple signs and pictures which you could borrow in the next swap.

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kipper - no I didnt get one from my wanted post, so yes that would be great, thanks v much.

I havent got round to reading the Sheila Quigley book - because life's too stressful at the moment without reading about horridness! But I will post on for someone with a stronger stomach to enjoy.

CONTAINS SPOILERSDO NOT READ UNTIL YOU HAVE FINISHED THE BOOK*

Right, I do like murders, whodunnits, and thrillers, but not the gory bits (same feelings as others on here, I could stomach them before having children, but not so much now).

This book was not too much of a struggle as far as gore was concerned, but I had a problem finishing it as far as everything else went. I didn't like the accent, didn't care about any of the characters except the rather hapless Melanie (who had shades of Tiny Tim about her and whom I could have happily strangled myself, by the time she sang "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" to bring somebody out of a coma, fgs) and thought the writing was pretty mediocre.

I'm afraid the binding is starting to come apart a little - I apologise if this was my rough treatment of it I didn't take my revenge on it, honest.

Not my cup of Redbush, but thanks to the original donor - each of the books I have had so far have been very different, which has made the book swap well worth participating in for me.

Oh oh oh and the "will they won't they?" thing with the two lead police officers was so damn NAFF

have vented enough now

Oh god!! What a piss poor book!

So agree with Franny about the damn swing low sweet fecking chariot. SO cheesy!!

Contrived, naff, cheesy and badly written. The "lust" between Lorraine and Luke was about as hot as

Hope the next book is better

Sorry, I didn't finish this - not my cup of tea at all. I like some crime and thriller novels - but I like well-written ones, and I don't think this is well-written at all. Poor characterisation, poor plot, very contrived - crime story by numbers really.

And Swing Low Sweet Chariot ... perlease ...

not a big fan of crime/thrillers, a far too predictable and formulaic genre, and this one epitimised it for me. thought the sort of writing in accent (but not consistently) was actually bordering on the ludicrous, and TOTALLY agree about the swing low sweet chariot.
for such a small community, the police seemed to be farely useless at actually knowing anyone in the town. simply scim read to the end, when i discovered my first guess was correct, so making the whole thing even more predictable.
still, at least i didn't buy it, that really would have cheesed me off!