Thank you to the author, publisher and Netgalley for the ARC.
Hades is a book I'm in mixed minds about. It's the story of, well, many parts really. We Thank you to the author, publisher and Netgalley for the ARC.
Hades is a book I'm in mixed minds about. It's the story of, well, many parts really. We have Hades, a well known underground figure that is able to fix things for anyone that needs anything fixing, usually crime related. We then have Eric and Eden, a brother and sister duo that were brought to Hades as young children after the violent murder of their parents. We also have Frank Bennett, a cop who has been assigned to work alongside Eden in a new partnership.
Set in different time zones and different points of view, it tells the story of how Eric and Eden grow up and where they are now and also how we have a killer that appears to be kidnapping victims for their organs in a transplant racket.
So what do I think? I found the book to be a convoluted, cliched story with some originality I suppose. There were parts that I liked. The backstory of Hades and the children for me was the strength of the book, that was the story I wanted to read. The present day of the killer and Bennett et al just didn't do it for me. What I'm surprised about and, after reading other reviews people picked up on, was the Dexter influence and parallels. That's where the book lost it for me. After a big tv show of the anti hero, Dexter, and his ways, I'm suprised anyone would want to go there, when comparisons are obviously going to be made. I find that perplexing. This felt like the Australian version of what's already been done. What I also had a problem with was that some of the characters were not fleshed out enough, especially the killer, we don't really get to find out much of anything where he's concerned, just a bunch of cliches and stereotyping. And the whole process of what he was doing seemed a little too much for a one man band. As for the other main leads, Eden felt like a perfect Angelina Jolie, Eric and Frank again felt like nothing new. All a bit too perfectly flawed and ticking of boxes. Hades was the one that stood out as something different.
I read the book fairly quickly but I must admit I did speed read through a few pages. All in all it's not a bad read and some of it I did like but the rest was just ok which is why I'm giving it 3 stars, I think that's a fair rating....more
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