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The Facebook Killer: Part 1 (2011)

by M.L. Stewart(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 1

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English

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Fiction

publisher

Amazon Digital Services

series

Facebook Killer

review 1: The Facebook Killer is a little different; I give it that. Darkman meets Taken with the help of social media if I were to put it in movie terms.The story is good although at times becomes quite formulaic. It’s semi-plausible if you can forgive no explanation for useful ‘contacts’. Perhaps they’re linked in some way to the sparse history of Dermott Madison, but we can’t quite tell. The means of killing are certainly varied with some quite gruesome moments. If you’re sensitive, don’t read this while you’re eating.Perhaps the version has been updated since I download the book, but formatting is hard going with a fixed font, in places falling into standard and then back again, which is not so easy on the eye and isn’t helped by the left justified text with fe... morew clear paragraph breaks. It might also have benefitted from a proof reading to weed out a generous helping of grammatical and linguistic issues. These things detract for me from what wasn’t a bad story.If you download this and want to know how it ends, be prepared to buy parts two and three also. Part one ends quite abruptly then tells you part two can be downloaded now. A bit annoying.So all in all and taking reading experience as whole into account I have to go middle of the road. It bodes well for a new writer but I’m not blown away.
review 2: The book has an interesting premise, in terms of a vengeful man tracking down the friends and family of the man who ruined his life via Facebook.However, and it's a big however, for a book based around social networking and the reality of modern life, as a reader you have to suspend your sense of reality.We're meant to believe that a fairly wet sounding main character can develop a network of criminal contacts at the drop of a hat which can supply all manner of illicit goods and services.A banker suddenly becomes adept at all manner of practical skills, and no-one apparently follows up on unusual deaths that closely.Whilst some of the methods of dispatching the victims are inventive and novel there isn't much of a writing style to talk about. It seems very linear and stilted, and the dialogue certainly doesn't crackle. The switch between personas feels too forced and repetitive, when it could have been handled much more cleverly.But hey, I paid nothing for this, which is why I'm giving it 3 stars and not 2.Having said that, I don't think I'll be paying for part 2, I just wasn't gripped by it enough. less

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