{"id":5525,"date":"2017-11-29T16:41:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2017-11-29T16:41:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:41:34","slug":"book-review-bloody-kids-by-andrew-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-bloody-kids-by-andrew-holmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Bloody Kids by Andrew Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bloody Kids<\/em>\u00a0by Andrew Holmes<\/p>\n

Sasquatch Books, 2017<\/p>\n

ASIN: B078437KK2<\/p>\n

Available: Kindle edition<\/p>\n

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Bloody Kids\u00a0<\/em>by Andrew Holmes is a gory thriller about a rural English town that is rotten to its core.\u00a0 A rich farmer controls the town and most of its inhabitants, including the police, much as lords of the manor did in medieval England.\u00a0 He entertains and controls many of the village men with annual hunting bacchanals and a clandestine brothel at the Lizard Farm.\u00a0 A sadistic widow runs the Farm and is the madam for comely ‘cleaning women’.\u00a0 She physically and psychologically abuses her orphaned or abandoned ‘foster children’, who work the Farm.<\/p>\n

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Things begin to go awry when the widow becomes demented, and loses control over the once-cowed children.\u00a0 As they take control of the Farm, their base instincts come to the fore.\u00a0 Think of William Golding\u2019s Lord of the Flies<\/em>.\u00a0 The children begin to abuse and torture the prostitutes.<\/p>\n

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The rich farmer\u2019s son-in-law takes his young son on a winter picnic in a field near the Farm, and the boy disappears.\u00a0 An intensive search leads nowhere, and a local veteran Detective Inspector is ordered to investigate.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a tangled web.\u00a0 The DI has had a midlife crisis and an affair with a hostess-prostitute at the bacchanals, who is also the nanny\/cleaning woman for the children.\u00a0 Although she ends the affair, she still communicates with the DI by cell phone, until the boy disappears.<\/p>\n

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A boy\u2019s body is found in a gravel pit.\u00a0 It seems that no one is innocent.\u00a0 Mutilations (yes, even with a chainsaw), torture, and murder, crescendo to a gory, blazing denouement on a bone-chilling, snowy night.\u00a0 As in a morality play, most of the malefactors get their just deserts.<\/p>\n

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The story is fast-paced, and keeps the reader engaged.\u00a0 Setting his story in England, Holmes treats the reader to many English colloquialisms, such as \u201ctwee\u201d (quaint), \u201cgutted\u201d (upset) and \u201cgob\u201d (spit, mouth).\u00a0 Holmes has written many other action\/adventure\/fantasy\/horror novels under the pseudonyms Oliver Bowden and A. E. Moorat.<\/p>\n

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Recommended for teens and adults<\/p>\n

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Contains: violence, gore and sex<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Robert D. Yee<\/p>\n

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Bloody Kids\u00a0by Andrew Holmes Sasquatch Books, 2017 ASIN: B078437KK2 Available: Kindle edition   Bloody Kids\u00a0by Andrew Holmes is a gory thriller about a rural English town that is rotten to its core.\u00a0 A rich farmer controls the town and most of its inhabitants, including the police, much as lords of the manor did in medieval<\/p>\n

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