All tagged thriller
In every horror movie with a female protagonist where she’s running up the stairs from her killer rather than out of the front door, I scream at the screen in frustration and I’m irritated by the one-dimensionality of peril, panic and associated action. Freedom feels so clearly attainable, so often in these stories. Not here. Dean reminds us in stark detail of the true nature of physical and mental captivity which stops the thoughts of an easy escape dead in their tracks.
What’s clear from the outset is Turton’s ability to create his reality, to bring you into the surroundings he’s describing in such a silky and fluid way that you are willfully submerged into his narrative waves. His language is accessible yet beautiful, full of detail and yet not laboured.
I was happy to see this book set in London and *small spoiler* some of it takes place 25 years in the future. I found myself immediately relieved when reading the London of 2019 and the version 25 years later that none of it felt like it was grasping back at the Big Smoke of the Ripper years. Moorhead didn’t rely on that trope to set her scene, to fill our brains with the streets and the sounds.
