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Monsters [Kindle Edition]

Gareth S. Young (Author)
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Doyle Godwin works nights as a Private Investigator in the small town of Gabriel's Horn. He has learned how to hide his twisted, giant frame in the dark, avoiding the cruel eyes and taunts of the locals as he ekes out a living tracking down adulterers and other night-dwellers, living vicariously through the images he captures on camera. Lurking in the shadows, he is content with his world until, one day, the only woman he ever loved walks into his office and hires him to find her missing daughter. Emmy Watson is losing hope. After three long weeks, her daughter Scarlett remains missing and the FBI have slowly removed themselves from the search, leaving an impotent Sheriff's department no closer to solving the kidnapping. Her heart broken and her nerves frayed to their ends she hires Doyle, Sheriff Reid's main suspect, forcing the town's Boogieman out into the daylight. Sheriff Emerson Watts has discovered a body beneath Mt Rainier's watchful gaze. An ex-FBI agent with a once bright future, he sifts through the detritus of the murder scene and realizes there might be a connection between his case and the missing girl in Gabriel's Horn. Trying to meet with Sheriff Reid, he instead bumps into the deformed detective and triggers an avalanche which threatens to swallow them all up. MONSTERS is a dark, complex, character driven psychological thriller. This 93,000 word story mixes strong themes: family, friendship, love, loss and betrayal and features a protagonist who echoes classic characters like The Hunchback, Frankenstein's Monster and The Phantom. This story is aimed at adults of all ages.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 338 KB
  • Print Length: 422 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1451523483
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B005PNP34K
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #196,155 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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'Monsters' tells the tale of a kidnapped child from a small, run down and forgotten town and the subsequent efforts of the private investigator hired to find her by a desperate mother. It is a story where no-one is quite what they seem, and where everyone has something to hide. Except the PI himself, who monstrously deformed, matches none of the current stereotypes of the detective, and who immediately becomes the prime suspect in the case he has been hired to crack. He is deformed and hideous, ergo he is the fiend.
Now the PI, 'Doyle', has to solve this case to save his own, hideous skin. This, of course, is a premise that many crime fiction and thriller readers will be used to, however 'Monsters' adds a few more twists to it than that. Think John Merrick, the Elephant Man, hard-boiled and Little Red Riding Hood and you will have something and nothing of what this delightfully dark thriller has in store for the reader.
There are Monsters everywhere, from the fiend that kidnaps a young child to the town itself, which now lies like a dead creature, haunting the townsfolk. The characters, like the setting, are well explored and most, in their way, have traits that are all too human, all too real and all too monstrous themselves - and none of them just 'make up the numbers'. It is like the fallen town has infected its citizens with a dangerous plague of lethargy and selfishness, malcontent and hatred; all of which is sucked to the surface when a mother's daughter disappears one Hallowe'en night.
And there is murder.
'Monsters' continues to deliver the thematic kicks and narrative punches with thorough, yet dexterous description throughout, exploring the Fankensteinain monster that a broken society can create. It shows the pain wreaked when friendships turn sour and families split from jealousy and selfishness. And throughout, 'Monsters' does all this with a cast of characters that the reader can care about, get to know and love - or hate - with every turn of the page.
'Monsters' is a great read. Fast and honest, it is a welcome addition to a genre that is well trod. Written by a new author (as I understand him to be), he has scripted a new, almost cinematic tale to add to this great genre.
This novel should be read if for no other reason than for the Private Investigator imagined like none before. 'Doyle' is a character that could be easliy hated, easily loathed but ultimately he is all that and more; 'Doyle' takes much more than mere social labelling to know. And the author encourages the reader to try to understand the man, the Monster, and his world with pace and aplomb. The story of this man makes this book particularly hard to set down.
I thoroughly enjoyed 'Monsters' and would recommend it to anyone.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Gripping 6 Feb 2012
By LG
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
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"Monsters" is set in small-town America and centres around the disappearance of a young girl, Scarlett, at Halloween. After a few frantic weeks of investigation by the FBI, the trail grows cold and the authorities lose interest, leaving Scarlett's mother, Emmy, alone and desperate.
And here enters Doyle Godwin, a supposedly physically monstrous Private Investigator, who hides his deformed body from view and recoils from human sight yet becomes inextricably involved in finding Emmy's daughter.

The idea of this novel is excellent - even the description had me hooked and my imagination ran wild. The character of Doyle is incredibly well written and he is utterly believable. He could have become a caricature but he is crafted so realistically and his thoughts are, at times, very hearbreaking.

The plot moves briskly without being too hasty and the dialogue is believable. It has enough twists and turns to keep you guessing and the idea that someone can be perceived to be guilty purely because of the number of people that believe it, is very pertinent and an interesting idea to explore.

Probably the only minor point is the formatting of the text - unfortunately, a few words are mis-spelt and there is an absence of punctuation. It doesn't impede your enjoyment of the novel though.

This was a really enjoyable read and I couldn't put it down. This author is a great find and I look forward to his future work!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Intriguing! 6 Jan 2012
By Valeriebrbr - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
MONSTERS is a fresh take on frightening. A fast read, the story propels and keeps you on edge, wondering about the outcome until the end. I identified with the characters and thoroughly enjoyed this novel.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
great story with a few flaws 21 Jan 2012
By Martina Sommer - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
I read the story because I was intrigued by the premise. A detective with a severe handicap is right up my alley, and I wasn't disappointed. The story is interesting, the characters believable, the story relatively fast paced (there were a couple of places where I skipped description but that's probably just me because the prose was good and the passages with description not too long). Still, the story had three flaws -- only minor things but big enough to disrupt my reading pleasure here and there.

1. The story is told in alternating points of view (POV) which is fine as long as an entire scene is told from one POV. But there were instances, where the author jumped into someone else's head in a scene for just a paragraph or two. That was jarring. I understand the urge to explain what the other people in a scene are feeling but it just didn't work for me.

2. The local Sheriff (Reid), was a tad too incompetent and boisterous. I've never met a person like that, but maybe they do exist, and I just don't know. It isn't too big a problem since the other characters are far more prominent.

3. (and this is very, very minor), the character Harald travels from his German hometown to Munich as a boy, and the author placed the hometown into the Schwarzwald. It threw me big time because I am German, and thre was no indication that it was a big, long journey. The Schwarzwald is so far away from Munich, that in the 1940-ies, it took several changes of trains and nearly half a day to get from one to the other. It just didn't seem manageable for a teen on his own. But I don't think this will disrupt many readers because they've probably never been to Germany.

All in all, I very much liked the story (thats why I gave 4 stars, not 3). It surely is a pageturner well worth the money.
Great start! 28 Mar 2012
By RRPOPO - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
The story was interesting and unique. I really liked the main character, and the description of his life and personal demons were vivid and realistic. I liked that it flowed more like real life, and all its twisted mess, instead of a tired formula where you can guess the bad guy, the good guy gets his girl and everyone lives happily ever after. If you are looking for a routine story, move along. If you are looking for a story that can capture your attention and keep you flipping the pages for more, then you are in the right place! This is the first book by this author, and I am looking forward to the next with great curiosity and anticipation!
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