Broken monsters carnegie library of pittsburgh overdrive. Broken monsters by lauren beukes charity 20170123 broken monsters is the second and last book i finished for this years 24 in 48 readathon, matching my finished total for deweys readathon this past october. Broken monsters deschutes public library overdrive. Dont make the mistake of judging broken monsters on the first few chapters. Where beukes s brilliant the shining girls was taut and focussed, broken monsters is a much looser narrative and suffers for it. It starts off like any other serial killer thriller and you may start to wonder if lauren beukes has turned her pen to vanilla crime fiction. If lauren beukes s internationally bestselling the shining girls was a timejumping thrill ride through the past, her broken monsters is a genreredefining thriller about broken cities epub, broken dreams, and broken people trying to put themselves back together again. The new thriller from lauren beukes, author of the shining girls. The story slugs a bit through the third or half, but is actually captivating up to the conclusion.
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