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Acid Row [Kindle Edition]

Minette Walters (Author)
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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

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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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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 727 KB
  • Print Length: 474 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Books; 6 edition (9 April 2008)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B003GK21TO
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #67,964 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
acid burned dry 11 Jun 2008
By Michael Watson TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format: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!
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Flaccid Row 19 Feb 2003
By russ t
Format: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......
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Disappointment 28 Sep 2003
By A Customer
Format: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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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Unspeakable
'Acid Row' is a salutory lesson in what can go wrong when an author steps outside their comfort zone. Read more
Published on 19 Aug 2009 by M. D. Smart
A good read but occasionally too predictable
My first Minette Walters book. A good read that kept the pages turning. Too many characters to learn much about them and some of them occasionally too predictable. Read more
Published on 1 Aug 2009 by Alison
A difficult read
Maybe the readers who gave this such low marks for unbelievable characters have never lived on a run down council estate or met such people as featured. Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2008 by M. Reeve
Patronising & badly-researched!
This is the worst of her novels. The estate described in the book is something imagined from the worst excesses of many Daily Mail articles and bears no relation to reality... Read more
Published on 18 Jun 2007 by J. BENNY
Hmmm...somehow I managed to read it to the end
What a letdown. The story had a very good idea behind it, but the author fails to really picture any of it clearly. Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2007 by T. C. Walker
Badly written, terrible plot.
Even though this book was badly written, the characters unbelievable, and the dialogue ridiculous, i still found myself wanting to read on to the conclusion of the story. Read more
Published on 11 Dec 2006 by A. Smith
Thank goodness for Minette Walters
Minette Walters never fails to disappoint. She draws you into the plot and you actually feel as if you are there. Acid Row is absolutely gripping and one of her best novels. Read more
Published on 21 Feb 2006 by "susie2shoes56"
Really nasty piece of work
I have read other books by this writer and enjoyed them but I thought this was awful. The plotting is clumsy and confused. The violence is gratuitous and the story nasty. Read more
Published on 20 May 2005
A difficult one to judge....
As my title suggests, this book is difficult to judge. On one hand I applaud Minette Walters for tackling such a sensitive subject in paedophilia but on the other I found that the... Read more
Published on 25 July 2004
A Little Information Is Dangerous
This thought-provoking book is a stark example of how a little bit of information, when it gets into the wrong hands, can be dangerously and tragically misused. Read more
Published on 7 Dec 2003 by Untouchable
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