Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd

No one appeared to like this book. We had such high hopes, the reviews were excellent, it had won prizes - but ............ The book is written with two protagonists one from the 1600 an apprentice architect to Wren and the other more modern detective trying to find the culprit behind a number of murders in Spitalfields. It could have been so good, mixing the ages, metaphysical dimensions, time, serial murders and demon worship - and yet it was just confusing and over written. The end is extremely disappointing - in fact it's not an end more an abdication by the author to give us (the readers) an explanation to anything. VERY annoying.
Words used to describe the book: pile of wank, promising but ultimately disappointing, shit - threw book against the wall, gratuitous misery, annoying end, should have been better. Scored 1 - 4 so not very high.

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16th December