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From the first page, Minette Walters assaults your sensibilities with her psychological thriller Acid Row; she grabs you hard and fast, sustains the onslaught throughout and hits you with a knock-out final blow. Straightaway she informs you that the abduction of 10-year-old Amy and the revelation that a paedophile has been relocated to Acid Row, "a place of deprivation where literacy was poor, drugs endemic and fights commonplace", and where children were left to run wild, leads to rioting and "five hours of savagery leaves three dead".
Even with this prior knowledge, Walters' skill as a novelist never leaves you complacent and nothing prepares you for the horror and tragedy of her novel's shocking denouement. Monsters and heroes are found in the most unlikely places, subverting all your preconceptions: third-time pregnant teenager Melanie incites the protest only to block the rioters when they turn violent; "Big, black" Jimmy James is just out of prison but risks his neck to save the life of an injured policewoman; and the 71-year-old asthmatic father of the so-called paedophile turns out to be more sadistic than your worst imaginings.
A page-turning novel doesn't have to be particularly well written or intelligent to hold you in its grip but occasionally one comes along with both qualities and leaves you reeling in its wake. This is it. Acid Row's numerous narratives are so tightly packed and interconnected that no detail is spurious and everything is channelled towards suspense and shattering revelations. Walters just goes from strength to strength. --Nicola Perry --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Acid Row is the name given to their 'sink' estate by the inhabitants, an area of single mothers and fatherless children where angry alienated youth control the streets. Young Dr Sophie Morrison is unaware that the patient she is visiting is a known paedophile and when a tormented child disappears the vigilantes come out in force and Sophie finds herself trapped in a terrifying siege..But is the little girl really missing ?
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
acid burned dry,
By Michael Watson "skirrow22" (Halifax, England) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Acid Row (Paperback)
Fortunately, I picked up this book from the hotel bookcase on a wet day, so it passed the time!
It's also the first Walters' book I've read. I will try another but not hold out much hope for a riveting read filled with sturdy characterisation and reliable reporting of a riot situation. The author mentions Bradford as though this justifies the reasoning behind her storyline. Hmmmm. I lived there when the riots were in full swing. Don't recognize much by way of a comparison with the real world. Anyway, the book passed a day. Don't expect much else!
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Flaccid Row,
By russ t (Bristol, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Acid Row (Paperback)
It's hard to take this book seriously on any level.I always get the feeling, from reading Walter's books, that she's a rather well-to-do middle class lady... and reading this book, above all her others, seems to confirm my suspicions. The descriptions of the ordinary estate people (there are millions in Britain, Minette) were cliched, tired and frequently verged on the offensive. There are many many single mothers... but do they all have to be daytime TV addicts, swigging lager and smoking fags to their daily dose of Trisha? And do they all really need to be following that supposed 'cycle' of single parents, with jobless jailbird junkie males as the only love interest? The book seems confused, too. Are we following the listless 'missing girl' plot (which thankfully seems to get all but forgotten in the latter half of Acid Row) or the dastardly paedo/dirty Daddy story, which, with increasing ridiculousness, takes the forefront in the book? I'm usually quite a fan of Walters' knack for writing a book you feel could have been set in your own village - she seems at home in the comfy, conservative, country villages like Dorset....but desperately out on a limb when writing about anything but this priveliged rich existence. Her genuine lack of knowledge regarding things like housing estates, race problems, drug problems and the relationships which run these apparently crime-ridden estates is glaringly obvious in Acid Row, and her generalisations and Daily Mail-like observations gave me frequent intakes of breath and curling of the toes. A blip on an otherwise pretty near faultless body of work, Acid Row should be avoided. It really isn't a book to be proud of, and it certainly isn't one to recommend or read again. And I haven't, for the benefit of Ms Walters writing career, even mentioned the gut churningingly American ending......
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointment,
By A Customer
This review is from: Acid Row (Paperback)
This book was not neary as good as the hype on the covers said it would be. There was no tension at all, i ended up skimming bits of it. Some of the words and phrases she puts in the mouth of her characters are plain daft. Luckily i got if from the library, i would have been mad if i had paid money for it. I did like her early work.
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