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Purgatory (2013)

by Ken Bruen(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0802126073 (ISBN13: 9780802126078)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Mysterious Press

series

Jack Taylor

review 1: Ken Bruen's Jack Taylor novels are not for the faint of heart or for people that drive cars sporting bumper stickers with smiley faces (or Zen-like quotes for that matter). Bruen's anti-hero, Jack Taylor, is darker than a cloudy night in the Maine woods. Smiley faces are what you wipe your shoes on. Bruen may be the life of the party for all I know, but Jack Taylor is not. Most people pray that life never darkens the doorway that Jack Taylor walks through daily. Drunk or sober, Taylor is brilliant, stupid, sadistic, saintly, and ultimately gets other people, usually his friends, killed. Purgatory is the street Jack Taylor lives on, always has, always will. No change. Without end. That's why it's call purgatory. Amen! An exceptional book, but keep the meds, some Janis Jopl... morein, and a bottle of Black Bush handy. If you don't need them, Jack Taylor will.
review 2: I have read all 10 books in the Jack Taylor series over the past couple of weeks and thoroughly enjoyed each one. Jack is a compelling character who despite battling his demons still manages to endear himself to the reader. I love the references to what is going on around him whether it be the books he's reading or lines from his favourite TV shows such as Breaking Bad. Having read all 10 books in their proper sequence in such a short space of time has also shown how the Celtic Tiger has risen and fallen in Ireland as Bruen's series has witnessed it all the highs and the lows. I would recommend this series to anyone who like their crime novels dark and gritty. less

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