Behind The Mask

Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris is the 4th and final book in the series, but being honest I feel I need a Hannibal Rising part 2 as this book only takes you from Hannibal being a child in the war untill 18 and pumped up on revenge which to be honest I understand ( He's like a murderous James Bond 🔪......more

Right off, I have to say that I love this book. I have been waiting, along with many others, for years to find out how Hannibal Lecter became what he became. I wanted to know what caused his transformation into one of the most frightening killers in literature (and the movies) known to man. I was thri......more

This book did it's job in relaying the younger years of the infamous Hannibal Lecter, but it never really went beyond that. Whilst it goes some way towards providing an understanding of how he became the serial killer of previous books in this series, it only covered a small selection of years. It f......more

I’m right in the middle with this one. I didn’t love it but I didn’t hate it either. Some parts I thoroughly enjoyed and couldn’t get enough of, while others quite nearly bored me to tears. I was a little disappointed because the previous three books are just so damn good and this one lacks the spar......more

Had it been not Hannibal Lecter, I would have given this book 3 stars, for it is a reasonably entertaining tale of revenge. But as an explanation for how the monster Hannibal the Cannibal came into being, it is a woefully inadequate explanation. We go back to Hannibal's childhood in Lithuania and the......more