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The Calling (2011)

by Alison Bruce(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

156947964X (ISBN13: 9781569479643)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Soho Constable

series

DC Gary Goodhew Mystery

review 1: I like the series of Alison Bruce, and I like DC Goodhew, because he is rather strange. But this book was somehow harder to read than the previous ones. The main theme are disturbed sexual relationships, and this is probably a kind of antithesis to "shades of grey" (which I didn´t read and never will). Here, some girls get to know a seemingly nice guy. Everything starts good, they fall in love and they really want this relationship. Then the guy changes and starts abusing them and destroying them psychologically - but they can´t leave him, because they love him. In the end he dumps them and they never really recover. That´s the real story behind shades of grey: trying to control someone leads to changing him/her and in the end destroying him/her. There´s nothing romant... moreic about that and the book shows that very good. It´s also a reminder of being not to careless while partying.
review 2: I loved Cambridge Blue but wasn't so keen on the Siren and therefore was slightly unsure what to expect from The Calling but I wasn't disappointed. DC Gary Goodhew is called in to investigate the disappearance of Kaye Whiting, a young woman who didn't turn up to a family gathering and hasn't been seen since. A young woman makes an anonymous call stating that Kaye isn't the first and won't be the last victim. There is very little for Gary and the team to go on other than this one lead so he starts looking at other disappearances and soon a scary pattern emerges. Some of his colleagues are jealous of Goodhew's favour with their boss DI Marks but I did feel that this was only very low level and almost as if Bruce wasn't sure how big an issue to make out of it. I can only surmise that maybe this is going to continue through into other books in the series. less

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