Saturday, 16 June 2007

Be My Enemy - Christopher Brookmyre

Be My Enemy

I thought this was a completely hopeless book. Is it meant to be a thriller, or shlock horror, or what? The characters are flimsy and the minor ones are undifferentiable. Their behaviour in the face of shocking events is entirely unrealistic. If you saw someone have their head cut off in front of your eyes, would you really go off into banal witticisms?

In one scene "our hero" has to climb down an improvised rope. Bearing in mind that he has come from a large hotel where there must have been any number of power cables and electric flexes which could have been tied together, Brookmyre has him use a set of human intestines.

Stupid brainless drivel. Don't waste your time

Rated : 2/10

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