Mrs De Winter - Susan Hill

Various Haunts of Men - Susan Hill

thought I’d try one in exchange for one of my books. If this is the normal standard of her writing, I can safely say I’ll be reading more in future! On the face of it, The Various Haunts doesn’t have a great deal to set it apart from other books in the crime genre. It features a police hunt for a serial killer and looks at events from the perspective of both the killer and the key characters. What does make it different, though, is the attention to detail and the characters that inhabit the world Hill creates. The characters actually feel like real people and we find out an awful lot about them, but gradually. This helps to really ground the book in reality and, in no ...

Various Haunts of Men - Susan Hill

thought I’d try one in exchange for one of my books. If this is the normal standard of her writing, I can safely say I’ll be reading more in future! On the face of it, The Various Haunts doesn’t have a great deal to set it apart from other books in the crime genre. It features a police hunt for a serial killer and looks at events from the perspective of both the killer and the key characters. What does make it different, though, is the attention to detail and the characters that inhabit the world Hill creates. The characters actually feel like real people and we find out an awful lot about them, but gradually. This helps to really ground the book in reality and, in no ...

I'm The King of the Castle - Susan Hill

say that I thoroughly enjoyed the book and that I was transfixed by it. It tells a tale of a boy named Kingshaw who comes to stay at the Hoopers house. Edmund Hooper, the young boy who lives there does not want a companion. As soon as Kingshaw arrives, Hooper watches him and terrorises him, with different things that scare Kingshaw. Susan Hill has created Edmund Hooper to be a bully, who works in many different ways, he either physically abuses Kingshaw (not sexually or anything like that) and also mentally abuses him. He is the epitome of a bully and you could even go as far as to say he is evil , a ten year old boy who can think of these ways to frighten the hell ...

I'm The King of the Castle - Susan Hill

say that I thoroughly enjoyed the book and that I was transfixed by it. It tells a tale of a boy named Kingshaw who comes to stay at the Hoopers house. Edmund Hooper, the young boy who lives there does not want a companion. As soon as Kingshaw arrives, Hooper watches him and terrorises him, with different things that scare Kingshaw. Susan Hill has created Edmund Hooper to be a bully, who works in many different ways, he either physically abuses Kingshaw (not sexually or anything like that) and also mentally abuses him. He is the epitome of a bully and you could even go as far as to say he is evil , a ten year old boy who can think of these ways to frighten the hell ...

I'm The King of the Castle - Susan Hill

give a basic out line of the story.It is a tale that shows the relationship of two young boys and thier parents when charles kingshaw moves into edmund hoopers house. Hooper does not want Kingshaw to move into his house and begins to terrorise him as soon as he arrives whilst pretending to be an angel to his father. The relationship that forms between the parents is also a good insight into a life bound by acts of convenience rather than those things we really want to do. I found this book to be somewhat predictable and although some parts are written in the thriller style i was unable to feel gripped by the book. The end of the book however i felt was far better than ...

I'm The King of the Castle - Susan Hill

give a basic out line of the story.It is a tale that shows the relationship of two young boys and thier parents when charles kingshaw moves into edmund hoopers house. Hooper does not want Kingshaw to move into his house and begins to terrorise him as soon as he arrives whilst pretending to be an angel to his father. The relationship that forms between the parents is also a good insight into a life bound by acts of convenience rather than those things we really want to do. I found this book to be somewhat predictable and although some parts are written in the thriller style i was unable to feel gripped by the book. The end of the book however i felt was far better than ...