Tuesday is 17 years old and she lives below the streets in tunnels around London. Tuesday has attitude by the shed load and this thriller sees her deal with the bad guys in her quest to right some wrongs and to help others.
I really, really enjoyed this novel. I found it very engaging and it was great to enter another world. Woven into this story was the concept of the possibility of a society living underground in London whom the ordinary population living above the surface are blissfully unaware. The reader then enters another world where the usual rules of our society no longer apply. But Tuesday regularly comes above the surface and boy, does she kick some arse! There is no messing with Tuesday, she clearly has a wonderful skill set and can get the job done. Tuesday Falling is not a sweet, sugary, girly, cup cakes and perfume novel, this girl has attitude. I found it an outstanding read as I could escape into another world, rather than more of the same.
Chasing after Tuesday to keep her actions within the law, are DCI Loss and DI Stone. As DI Stone says “What we have here is some whacked-out ninja super emo, roaming the streets, killing bad guys, and fucking with our heads.” There is some dark humour spread around this novel too, for example poking fun at smartphone users.
Characterization is spot on, not only with Tuesday but also with DCI Loss, DI Stone and Five. I found Tuesday Falling to be a thrilling story and a pleasure to read. It was very entertaining and fun to read. It was so refreshingly different to other British crime thrillers. The writing style was very adult and this whole book gave me such a buzz. Tuesday Falling is a debut novel but the writing quality is top of the class. The plot is very good indeed and I liked the ending. Tuesday Falling is one of my best reads this year and gets the top score of 5 stars from me.
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