Never be Broken
Today I am pleased to be able to
participate in the blog tour for Never
Be Broken by Sarah Hilary. My thanks
go to Anne Cater from Random Things Tours
for my spot on the tour.
About the Book
Children are dying on London's streets. Frankie Reece, stabbed through
the heart, outside a corner shop. Others recruited from care homes, picked up
and exploited; passed like gifts between gangs. They are London's lost.
Then Raphaela Belsham is killed. She's thirteen years old, her father
is a man of influence, from a smart part of town. And she's white. Suddenly,
the establishment is taking notice.
DS Noah Jake is determined to handle Raphaela's case and Frankie's too.
But he's facing his own turmoil, and it's becoming an obsession. DI Marnie Rome
is worried, and she needs Noah on side. Because more children are disappearing,
more are being killed by the day and the swelling tide of violence needs to be
stemmed before it's too late.
NEVER BE BROKEN is a stunning, intelligent and gripping novel which
explores how the act of witness alters us and reveals what lies beneath the
veneer of a glittering city.
Review
Today I am one of the last stops
on the blog tour and have a review for you.
Now this is the second book I
have read by Sarah Hilary and even though this is the book after Come and Find
Me which is book 6 in the series, I do feel that to fully understand some of
the events in Never Be Broken you do need to read the previous book.
My thoughts on starting this book
was no that can’t happen and why on earth has what happened happened in the
opening chapter. Why would the author Sarah Hilary do that in the first few
pages?
After that opening chapter, the
book then continues and we are drawn into the world of knife crime, and the
London high rise estates and streets where gangs seem to frequent. Now if you think this is going to be a book
about London gangs you would be wrong.
We are drawn into some of the ways in which the gangs deal with things. However this book is about the “rich kids” as
they are sometimes known who are drawn into the estate on the premise of
hearing stories and life tales from the residents that have lived in the tower
blocks for a number of years if not all their lives. We are involved in Marnie and her team having
to solve the unexplainable death of one of these kids.
I was thoroughly gripped with this
book and couldn’t wait to pick it up to continue reading.
Now to await the next book and
whilst I am doing that hopefully start the other books to catch up.
My thanks go to Anne Cater at Random
Things Tour for my spot on the tour, secondly to Sarah Hilary for writing such a
fantastic book. The review is however my honest unbiased opinions.
About the Author
Sarah Hilary’s debut, Someone
Else’s Skin, won Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year 2015 and was a World Book
Night selection for 2016. The Observer’s
Book of the Month (‘superbly disturbing’) and a Richard & Judy Book Club
bestseller, it has been published worldwide. No Other Darkness, the second in
the series was shortlisted for a Barry Award in the US. Her DI Marnie Rome series continued with
Tastes Like Fear, Quieter Than Killing and Come And Find Me. Follow her on
twitter @sarah_hilary.
Check out the rest of the blog
tour with these fabulous blogs:
My thanks to Anne Cater at Random Things Tours for my spot on the blog
tour.
