Monster Love - Carol Topolski

I have ran out of books to read recently, and my daughter who is a right book-worm, has kindly given me a few to read. This book - Monster Love by Carol Topolski is one of them. The story centres around married couple Brendan and Sherilyn Gutteridge. A couple who are soulmates in every sense of the word, and totally wrapped up in each other. They both have great jobs and have climbed the ladder at the same firm where they met, and live in an expensive house and have expensive tastes. To the outside world, they are a couple so in love, and they keep themselves to themselves. However, are always very polite to everyone they meet. The only time ...  Read the complete review

Brendan and Sherilyn Gutteridge live in the pleasant, affluent area of Tamley in Manchester. They are quite new to their street and prefer to remain private, keeping to themselves a great deal. To everyone else they appear to be the perfect couple...nice house, lovely car, designer clothes, expensive lifestyle and overall, completely immersed in each other and totally, utterly in love. A child is born. To most people this would be a fabulous occasion, thoroughly cementing the unity of a couple and opening a new chapter in their lives. But the Gutteridge bubble is different. Do they love each other so much that they would be willing to commit the most hideous ...  Read the complete review

Because of taking part in the A-Z Author Challenge (as I wrote about in my last book review) my last Amazon shopping spree involved only books from letters of the alphabet previously uncovered, and only one of each. Which along with an offer on Amazon in conjunction with the Metro, landed Monster Love in my basket for something like £1.99. When it arrived and I saw the full synopsis, I have to say I wasn't overly excited, but I brought it with me on my trip to Canada so I would have to read it. And to begin with, to my surprise, I was hooked. Monster Love centres around Brendan and Sherilyn, a couple so in love that nobody else in the world matters. ...  Read the complete review

A truly amazing book and I can't believe how fabulous it was considering the subject matter. I really felt - even though it was fiction - that this was what it would be like during cases that are so traumatic. It was extremely well written and I confess that in places I really did feel for both murderers - why, I don't know but I guess I was so hooked and into the novel they'd managed somehow to seep under my skin. It initially took a while for me to settle into the novel. The chapters are different in that they are each told from a different perspective, someone involved in different ways. Chapters come from parents, colleagues, neighbours, police, social ...  Read the complete review