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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Cole has written this book before, and will doubtless write it again. This is the one about the rise of two Kray-style villains. She wrote it rather better in ‘The Take” and rather less well in ‘Goodnight Lady’. As with most of her books, this is both shockingly badly written and oddly compulsive. If ever a writer needed a good but ruthless editor, it is surely Martina Cole. The surprisingly articulate soliloquies of her characters, and sometimes of the author just go on for ever. At a key stage in the story, when the reader is desperate to know how things are going to work out, there is a long disquisition by the main character on his personal theology. Floating in the background is a thesis about the origin of that character’s psychotic personality in a hatred of women rooted in Oedipal anger. I thought for a long time that she was going to say something meaningful about this, but the thought remained stubbornly un-focused. There is a very long and rather peculiar spiel by the author on why one of the female characters should have retained her virginity. Maybe Martina Cole should next tackle a Regency romance. And is it not a pity that Barbara Cartland never produced an East End crime novel. no reviews | add a review
Just before Danny Cadogan's fourteenth birthday, his father, Big Dan, leaves his wife and children to face the wrath of the men sent to collect his gambling debt. Determined to protect his mother, brother and sister, overnight Danny becomes set on making his way in a violent and dangerous world. He becomes a Face. Not just a Face, but the most feared Face in the Smoke. Out for all he can get. At any cost. Danny's ruthlessness doesn't stop at his front door. He rules his family with an iron will - and his fists. But if his wife, Mary breaks her silence, it could shake Danny's criminal empire; right to the very core. And for a Face at the top of his game, there's only one way to go. Down. Because, after all, debts can be paid without money... No library descriptions found. |
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We already know this about a certain character... It's like she's forgotten she's already told us.
I'm going to stick with it, even though I've started skipping pages.
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Well, I finished the book and was very disappointed. Faces has some great characters in it and could have been a good book if it was written well.
We authors are taught to show and not tell. Martina TELLS.
If Faces can become a best-seller, there's hope for us little people. ( )