Broken Monsters, Lauren Beukes
Broken Monsters, Lauren Beukes
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Broken Monsters

Author: Lauren Beukes

Narrator: J. D. Jackson, Christine Lakin, Robert Morgan Fisher, Terra Deva, Sunil Mohatra

Unabridged: 13 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/16/2014

Synopsis

A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukes's genre-bending novel of suspense.

Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit's standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams?

If you're Detective Versado's geeky teenage daughter, Layla, you commence a dangerous flirtation with a potential predator online. If you're desperate freelance journalist Jonno, you do whatever it takes to get the exclusive on a horrific story. If you're Thomas Keen, known on the street as TK, you'll do what you can to keep your homeless family safe -- and find the monster who is possessed by the dream of violently remaking the world.

If Lauren Beukes's internationally bestselling The Shining Girls was a time-jumping thrill ride through the past, her Broken Monsters is a genre-redefining thriller about broken cities, broken dreams, and broken people trying to put themselves back together again.

"Scary as hell and hypnotic. I couldn't put it down...I'd grab it if I were you." -- Stephen King

About Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes writes novels, comics and screeplays. She's the author of the critically-acclaimed international best-seller, The Shining Girls, about a time traveling serial killer, Zoo City, a phantasmagorical Joburg noir which won the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award, the neo political thriller, Moxyland. She worked as a journalist and as show runner on one of the South Africa's biggest animated TV shows, directed an award-winning documentary and wrote the New York Times best-selling graphic novel, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on July 05, 2018

Everyone lives three versions of themselves, a public life, a private life and a secret life another stunner from beukes. another book that sucked me in immediately, giving me multiple storylines full of interesting characters that i believed in, even if i didn't like them all. another series of uniq......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on December 18, 2015

Yup. Five stars. Actually, by the half-way mark I was simply enjoying the novel for how much depth and detail all the characters got. The mystery and the murder and the mayhem hadn't even really begun yet. I just got to revel in the characterizations. I didn't mind that there were a handful of them,......more

Goodreads review by Althea on September 08, 2016

NetGalley sent me an 'invitation' to read this book from an author I'd never heard of. The blurb didn't necessarily make the book sound like it was my kind of thing... but I decided to give it a try. I LOVED IT. If you're someone who's missed Kathe Koja's early writing (Strange Angels, Skin, Bad Brai......more

Goodreads review by Carole on October 01, 2014

This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life I received an advance reader edition of this book from Mulholland Books via Net Galley for the purpose of providing an honest review. 2.5 Stars I really think that this is one of those books that will either click in the readers mind....or not. I wa......more

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) on August 01, 2020

4.0 Stars This is a horror novel that reads like a thriller, until it clearly becomes a horror novel. Told over multiple perspectives it took awhile before the various plots intertwined. I was personally most invested in the perspective of the tough, female detective. I actually would have preferred......more

Quotes

"With Broken Monsters, the wildly talented Lauren Beukes has created a darkly majestic jewel of a novel, surpassing even The Shining Girls (no mean feat). Part harrowing thriller, part urban-Grimm's fairytale, but always filled with a deeply affecting humanity, Broken Monsters is the kind of book you'll find yourself pressing into the hands of everyone you know so they can experience it too."—Megan Abbott, author of The Fever and Dare Me

"Broken Monsters is a show-stopping story of a city trying to rise from its own ashes, its inhabitants struggling with their own demons, and monster working to shape the world to match his most disturbing visions. It's beautiful, horrifying, thrilling, and most impressive of all, possessed of a deep and remarkable compassion. I wish I'd written it."—Ivy Pochoda, author of Visitation Street

PRAISE FOR LAUREN BEUKES:

"Lauren Beukes has got an intriguing style of dealing with slightly surreal things in very real ways. I'm all over it."—Gillian Flynn, O: The Oprah Magazine

"Lauren Beukes is so profusely talented--capable of wit, darkness, and emotion on a single page--that a blockbuster seems inevitable."—Charles Finch, USA Today

PRAISE FOR THE SHINING GIRLS:
"Wildly inventive"—Entertainment Weekly

"Expertly chilling"—San Francisco Chronicle

"Astonishing"—Time

"A triumph"—Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio

"One of the scariest and best-written thrillers of the year"—Chicago Sun-Times

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