Someone Like Me - Tom Holt

'Someone like me' by Tom Holt is an extremely scary and touching short story. It is only around 100 pages long in large font but there is plenty of time for Tom Holt to portray his message. We follow a bounty hunter in this novel who hunts the local beasts. These 'things' are portrayed as terrible to us in the first chapters as we hear about them cutting people throats with rusty hooks and other such tales. The bounty hunter has a duty to kill whatever attacked the town and so he follows the trails down into the sewers which was not so wise as it is their territory. Little does he know that while down there he is going to find out something completely new ...  Read the complete review

No-one saw them coming and by the time they did it was too late. Now no-one can remember how they arrived. These beasts have slaughtered millions for meat and the World has regressed into the dark ages. A place were electricity no longer exists and modern technologies are the mythical tales of ageing madmen. Out of this chaos comes a hunter-by-trade who is tracking one of the beasts. Will the hunter become the hunted? “Someone Like Me” by Tom Holt is part of a quick reads series. Quick reads were created to get reluctant readers involved in the marvellous world of fiction. “Someone like me” certainly succeeds in having everything that you would expect ...  Read the complete review