A Snowball in Hell |
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 | Mostly I give Christopher Brookmyre's books four or five stars. True I tend not to like books with gratuitous violence of foul language, but he is normally so inventive that I forgive such transgressions. Not so with A snowball in hell! Brookmyre seems always determined to push at the boundaries of acceptability, and I have no problems with that. In this latest book however he doesn't push acceptability; he kicks it out of sight. He takes his hero Angelique de Xavia through an improbable series of events with which she is impotent to cope unless she has guidance her lover Zal!
It could have been a hugely enjoyable romp! It could have been his usual skilful mix of the absurd! It is neither, it misses most of the tests which have previously set Brookmyre apart form mere thriller writers. All this being said, I enjoyed the book, but only give it three stars "As was always stated on my school report "could do better".
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Written by Christopher Brookmyre.
Published 14 August 2008.
Published by Little, Brown.
rrp £16.99.
448 pages Hardcover.
ISBN: 0316027634
ISBN-13: 9780316027632 | |
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