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I read the 1st instalment and was enthralled by the ingenuity of the story line, entwining the genres of science fiction and the western, with a mix of different worlds, unlike anything I'd read before. I'd read some other Stephen king but this was completely different and I've re-read it many time since and always enjoyed it again.

What I find most amazing about this book is the way the writer writes in first person, and goes in-between two characters. I enjoy how he makes them so different yet so similar. And how he shows their separate lives to them meeting during a crime scene. It's so heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time. The writer really thought hard how to put this story together and wanted it to me something people would remember.

The father-son relationship in this book is interesting and hart-warming, which only makes the end of the book more perplexing. The scenes described throughout are also just very comforting, a great read all round.

Perfect thriller, page turner and keeps you guessing to the very end!

It's the prequel to The Girl with all the Gifts but it's best to read TGWATG first, as there are some delicious Easter eggs in this one, and it does a great job of answering questions and world building, all around beautiful relationships and fully realised complex characters. A real gut-punch of a book.

This is book no.14 of the DCI Logan series and I just love them although they are mainly crime fiction set in and around Highlands but have plenty of Scottish humour splattered in each story, I often find myself laughing out loud too which some people might find a bit odd. I would highly recommend these books to anyone who enjoys a good read. My favourite book of all time I think has to be Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews that book I read many years ago but it sticks with me even now, excellent book.

They are all brilliant in their own ways, definitely worth reading.