Acid Row
Written by Minette Walters
Narrated by Gerard Doyle
3.5/5
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Minette Walters
Minette Walters is an internationally bestselling author with more than 25 million copies of her books sold worldwide. She is the author of twelve novels, winning the CWA John Creasey Award for The Ice House, the Edgar Allan Poe Award for The Sculptress and two CWA Gold Daggers for The Scold’s Bridle and Fox Evil. She lives in Dorset with her husband. After a break of 10 years, she burst on to the literary scene with her first stunning historical novel, The Last Hours.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good harrowing fiction - deals with real problems - but no answers!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is really a 3.5.I enjoyed this book as a good suspenseful ride but I can't put it on the same level as a four star crime novel. Although I enjoyed it I was not really transported into the character's lives.Walters knows how to handle the pacing in her plot, she keeps things moving always at the right speed. Not breakneck speed, she knows when to apply the breaks but there was very rarely a slow moment or a time when the storyline did not progress.The characters were well written, but they still felt a bit flat or impersonal I guess. It felt like seven eighths of a novel and one eighth police report. It is told from the viewpoint of hind sight - and she keeps giving cryptic warnings during the narrative about what will happen next. (If only so and so hadn't done this or little did she know what would happen to so and so when she walked into the room.)In a way that was an interesting take on it, in another way I think it helped flatten out the characters and storyline a bit.What really interested me about this book is that it is actually set near where I live. Portisfield, where this story takes place is actually Portsmouth and the paedophile riots actually did happen and I remember reading about it all in the news. I don't believe it was half as violent or as atrocious as the scenario represented in this book - she took some dramatic license there!However, a couple of 'police reports' at the beginning were actually based on true life cases (the girl tied up in the bath) which unless you're from the UK and read it in the news every day you may not be so aware of. I will definitely be reading some more Walters in the future, she is a good author and if I want some guaranteed enjoyment I'll know where to turn. But nothing that really lit any fires under my bones.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ms. Walters continues to push the boundaries with her suspense fiction. This book shows what can happen when feelings run hot and people unite in a common goal. In this case the goal is misguided and cramped living quarters, xenophobic people and individuals cranked up on meth and other drugs is a recipe for disaster. I found this book very difficult to get through because it is as raw as it can get. There are definitely some gems here, and the biggest one is big, black Jimmy James who seems to almost single-handedly defuse a powder keg situation. His live-in pregnant partner Melanie is also another little jewel in the seamy cesspool in these council estates, so aptly named Acid Row. These are the things that helped me get through this book. Even though I didn't enjoy the setting or the happenings during this huge uncontrolled riot, Ms. Walters kept up the tension throughout and kept me turning pages.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Solid novel of suspense with a large cast of characters from a wide variety of backgrounds. Compelling and atmospheric, with a setting that could only be realised in London.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Walters is a master of the psychological crime drama. Somehow she gets in the heads of her characters and drives them toward the breaking point. Again, she visits England's poor and paints a bleak and frustrating socioeconomic landscape upon which disruption and violence are inevitable among the desperate denizens of Acid Row. Quite chilling in places and the suspense had me flipping the pages almost faster than I could read them.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Mob goes after a pedophile. Lots of jumping back and forth among characters.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5More political than her other books, not as fascinating.