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CJ Lines
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Publisher | Hadesgate | ||
ISBN | 9780955031458 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
Set against the backdrop of rural England in the 1980s, "Filth Kiss" is a dizzying plunge into the nightmarish heart of depravity. A man's body is found in the river Severn. Two brothers return to the village of their childhood to pay last respects to a father they barely knew.
Broadoak never changes. The same shops sell the same homemade trinkets. The same tongues wag behind the same closed doors. The same souls seek salvation at the bottom of the same pint glasses. The same shadows move along the same streets after closing time. The same malevolence waits to awaken once more.
As they fight off their own demons, the brothers discover that the evil within is nothing to be afraid of - what's coming for them is far, far worse.
Review
This book by C J Lines - Filth Kiss does not start as I would have expected. I thought because of the title it would talk about a stolen kiss but no it starts with an unknown - at the time person - getting rid of the clothes of a girl called sweet Katie Brown. The girl he had loved and destroyed. He loved her in a way that no older man should love a child, he knew it was wrong and that was his undoing.
His sons then come to pay their last respects but one is not accepted back in the family home by his sister, because of past troubles in his life. The story continues with many twists and turns until it is discovered that all is not what it seems.
The brothers find themselves trying to get answers but they are not easy to come by. No-one wants to talk about their father who had been respected but is now hated and they find that the answers are not what they would have expected.
I had to keep turning the pages to find out what would happen next, even though horror is not my thing, I had read the last draft before I received a copy of the finished book. The suspence was unbarable and you just have to keep reading.
C J Lines knows how to keep his readers glued to the page. He has a wonderful use of language and I was amazed at the different words he could find to describe what was happening and not repeating what he was saying.I must admit that CJ Lines with his second book is getting better and better. Keep up the good work and let us know when the next is on its way.
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