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| Will Graham sat Crawford down at a picnic table between the house and the ocean and gave him a glass of iced tea. |
A second family has been massacred by the terrifying serial killer the press has christened "The Tooth Fairy". Special Agent Jack Crawford turns to the one man who can help restart a failed investigation: Will Graham. Graham is the greatest profiler the FBI ever had, but the physical and mental scars of capturing Hannibal Lecter have caused Graham to go into early retirement. Now, Graham must turn to Lecter for help.
My Thoughts: I was drawn towards this book and was not disappointed. I liked that Will Graham is a protagonist with a dark side, and I love the character Lecter - the complete definition of intelligence, brilliance and pure, disgusting evil.
This book is twisted. It challenges us to get inside the mind of a vicious psychotic killer, and maybe, just maybe, empathise a little with him. It forces us to see where this evil stems from and to understand why he might feel the urge to do what he does. It's clever and evil and shocking all rolled up into 420 pages of brilliantly written, can't put down, crime horror. It was just like reading my way through a film (ignoring the fact that films of this have been made as I haven't actually seen them yet).
The only real hang up that I have was about the ending. It was awkward and didn't quite sit well with the build up of the rest of the book.
Theme: 5/5
Twisted serial killers and a race against time...
Plot: 4/5
One point knocked off for the ending, but the rest made for reading I just could not put down.
Characters: 5/5
Hannibal Lecter is one of the most prominent characters on both the big screen and on paper. With a cast of well-rounded, less than perfect characters, and another psychotic killer on the loose - not much more you can ask for!!!
Setting: 5/5
Style: 4/5
I love Harris' knack for dragging us into the minds of people that do things we would never even dream of!
Overall: 9.2/10
