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    Killing Mum

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    Starts out....This Starts out great...but in the end is so convoluted that it is just a narcissistic piece of junk. It is sad that most of the story is made up of swear words. Maybe if more time had been spend on the storyline and less on how many times the f-bomb could be dropped..... 2Brilliantly dark.Killing Mum immediately sucks you in with a dark, calculating main character that nonchalantly embraces his life as an assassins' agent. A quick read that you won't be able to put down.The Kindle version seems to have a few errors that are periodically annoying. Hopefully they will be fixed in a revised version. 4Confusing!!Carlos Morales is not a killer. He's just an intermediary. He makes arrangements for someone else to do the killing.One day he receives a note together with a bundle of cash for such a job, but he is shocked. The note is addressed to 'Charlie' giving instructions to eliminate Valerie Anderson. Now only his wife and mum call him Charlie and Valerie Anderson is his mother! Is this a sick joke? Who wants his mother dead?This is a short story that starts off in a very interesting and promising way, but which unfortunately gets increasingly confusing as it progresses. By the end I could not understand what was happening. The ending was disappointing and just made no sense at all. 2Twisted and Creepy!This story is totally twisted and creepy! I wasn't sure where it was going during the first chapter and the "Britishisms" almost made me quit but then I just kept reading a little more to see what was going to happen...I'm still not sure who started this whole sequence of events but it doesn't take long to read it and decide for yourself. 3Muddled At BestI love mysteries, but the mystery should be what the story is about and not trying to understand the story. I still am not sure what happened in this book. One good thing, it was very short. 1Keeping MumYou have to keep mum about Killing Mum because, as other reviewers have noted, it's hard to say too much without spoilers. It's about a for-hire hit-man who is given a lot of money to kill his own mother. He's both cool about it and curious. He's prepared to do it but would like to know who wants him to do it. Is it his wife, is it even the mother?Guthrie's writing is strong on dialogue, which many writers find hard to do convincingly. Some writers talk tough but their characters just end up sounding manufactured. Elmore Leonard is a master of great, natural dialogue, and while Guthrie's characters are a world away from Leonard's, they have that same tough-sounding realism. I liked what one reviewer said about Blood Simple - that's a really good comparison. Like the Coen Brothers' movie, it's gritty noir yet also occasionally comic. And the characters are totally real.By the way, one reviewer referred to problems with the Kindle version but I've read the Kindle version and didn't see any problems at all. Or maybe I was just too engrossed in the story! 5TRUE BRIT GRIT!KILLING MUM is a short, sharp shocker.TRUE BRIT GRIT!The novella is as tight as a very tight thing and is a spin off from Guthrie's cracking novel SAVAGE NIGHT. It's the story of a man who is paid to kill his own mother.Like SAVAGE NIGHT, KILLING MUM takes a violently absurd and tragically comic situation and gives it a couple of dark and bitter twists.It's like having BLOOD SIMPLE transported to modern day Scotland and is a rush of a read.Five BLOODY stars. 5Not badAmazing how much the author could do with a short story. Definitely suspenseful, twisted, and action packed. Maybe it's just me, but I didn't like the ending. I don't think I got it....lost me on the last pages. I've not read a full novel by author but definitely would. 3Killing MumI was lost, then I got on track, then lost again.I didn't even know when he went insane. It was a free book, but when I had finished it,I just asked myself what was that all about? The ideas are there , it just needed More words. really. A rewrite, working out some of the blanks. I'm not a writer, so maybe this was beyound my understanding. 3Good StorylineThis mystery had a great storyline and kept me wondering how it would play out. There were only two people who called him Charlie and one of them just put out a hit on Charlie's mother. Problem is one of them is his wife and the other, his own mother. Now it's up to him to find out who.While it kept me in suspense, it was confusing. With quotation marks used only about half of the time, it was difficult to know who was speaking. Also the ending was confusing. Was Carlos dreaming or what? 3
    Killing Mum

    Killing Mum

    3.1
    You can't add more than 500 quantity.
    €32,00
    €32,00
    €52,00
    Sold out
    Save 38% (€20,00)