Broken Monsters (Reading Group Guide), by Lauren Beukes
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"Scary as hell and hypnotic. I couldn't put it down...I'd grab it if I were you." --Stephen King A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukes's new genre-bending novel of suspense. Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit's standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams? If you're Detective Versado's geeky teenage daughter, Layla, you commence a dangerous flirtation with a potential predator online. If you're desperate freelance journalist Jonno, you do whatever it takes to get the exclusive on a horrific story. If you're Thomas Keen, known on the street as TK, you'll do what you can to keep your homeless family safe--and find the monster who is possessed by the dream of violently remaking the world. If Lauren Beukes's internationally bestselling The Shining Girls was a time-jumping thrill ride through the past, her Broken Monsters is a genre-redefining thriller about broken cities, broken dreams, and broken people trying to put themselves back together again.
Broken Monsters (Reading Group Guide), by Lauren Beukes- Amazon Sales Rank: #110287 in Books
- Brand: Beukes, Lauren
- Published on: 2015-06-16
- Released on: 2015-06-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.25" w x 5.63" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 464 pages
Review "This one has a vivid sense of place and a colorful and interesting cast of characters . . . I will be looking forward to whatever Lauren Beukes does next. She's a major, major talent."―George R. R. Martin, BookBub"Exquisitely paced and impeccably controlled . . . An enormously satisfying novel that employs the best attributes of multiple genres to dramatize big ideas about art, the Internet and urban decay."―New York Times Book Review"Captivating . . . A thoroughly modern, supernatural thriller."―Karolina Waclawiak, Los Angeles Times"Remarkable is Beukes's ability to blend genres, seamlessly incorporating horror, fantasy and traditional crime in ways that highlight the best parts of each. It feels new--unprecedented, in a way."―Madison Vain, Entertainment Weekly"It's hard to overstate how ambitious Broken Monsters is, maybe because Beukes somehow manages to make it look easy. Her prose is unhindered, exuberant and something like addictive. . . . Broken Monsters is one of the most remarkable books of the year, and one of the best suspense novels you'll read in quite some time."―Michael Schaub, NPR"Scary as hell and hypnotic. I couldn't put it down. . . . I'd grab it, if I were you."―Stephen King"Dig it: what a brilliant crime-phantasmagoria novel this is!!!!! This splendid novel is THE new primer on urban decay to the nth degree. I unhesitatingly urge you to buy it and read it now!"―James Ellroy
About the Author Lauren Beukes writes novels, comics and screenplays. She's the author of the critically-acclaimed international bestseller, The Shining Girls, about a time-traveling serial killer, Zoo City, a phantasmagorical Joburg noir which won the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award, and the neo political thriller Moxyland. She worked as a journalist, a show runner on one of the South Africa's biggest animated TV shows, directed an award-winning documentary and wrote the New York Times best-selling graphic novel, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful. One of the best horror novels of the year By Terry Weyna South African writer Lauren Beukes had a hit with last year’s The Shining Girls, the story of a serial killer who could travel through time. Readers of both time travel novels and serial killer thrillers loved the way Beukes melded the two genres. Beukes has again given us a genre-bender with Broken Monsters. Both a horror novel and a police procedural, Broken Monsters is even better than The Shining Girls.Broken Monsters is set in Detroit — today’s Detroit, bankrupt yet defiant, down on its luck but searching luck out wherever it can be found. The arts community seems to be especially thriving in this down-at-the-heels city, and it is a desire to make art that is the foundation of all the problems that are visited upon the victims of an especially perverse serial killer. The first body found isn’t even a complete body; it’s the top half of a ten-year-old child glued to the bottom half of a deer, as if the perpetrator expected the boy to dance away like a faun. Gabriella Versado — Gabi — is the homicide detective assigned to the case, working with a rookie uniformed officer, Marcus Jones, who can’t handle the stench of severed intestines of two different species. Gabi is intent on containing the story, but the whole city soon knows that a child has been killed, and it is up in arms over the seeming inability of the police to solve the crime.Gabi’s life is complicated by her 15-year-old daughter, Layla, one of the most vibrant characters in the book. Layla isn’t happy that her parents and divorced and that her father has a brand new family thousands of miles away in Georgia. She always had a parent at home when her folks were married, because they worked different shifts, but now she seems to never hear from her father and never see her mother. She hangs with her best friend — basically her only friend — Cassandra Holt, known as Cas, who is white to Layla’s Hispanic and African-American mix, which doesn’t make the slightest difference to the two of them. Both are involved in theater, but it’s not the only thing they get into; with Cas as the leader, they tease boys on sex sites on the internet, and even decide to bait a pedophile by pretending to be even younger than they are. They are in way over their heads, and they don’t know it. Beukes makes them so real that the book lights up even more brightly when either of them is on the page.Not that the other characters are mere sketches; quite the contrary. TK — Thomas Keen — is a homeless man who hustles for what he needs to keep body and soul together. He does his best to be polite to everyone, even those who scream at him for various offenses, like waiting on the curb as an evicted family packs to leave, hoping to find something left behind that he can sell. His friend Ramón is his dogsbody, the guy he looks out for and winds up giving the best stuff to. Both are recovering alcoholics, down on their luck but determined to climb back up to middle class life — or at least to stay alive for another day, another week, another month.Jonno Haim is a failed writer who has moved to Detroit from New York, hoping to start fresh. A hipster who doesn’t know he’s a hipster, he makes his living off other hipsters, mocking them with the listicles he composes for different internet websites. He’s hooked up with Jen Q, for whom he falls fast and hard, and together they’re working on a YouTube channel about the murders Gabriella is working on.Then there’s Clayton Broom, an artist who has worked in different media for years — paint, welding, clay, whatever he can use to make the visions in his head. And there’s the thing that comes to inhabit his body, using his limbs to create its own sort of art.Beukes skillfully weaves the individual stories of these characters into a whole that is greater than the sum of all its fascinating parts. She guides us through high school, the Detroit art scene, the daily life of the homeless, and the process, politics and procedures of the police who are trying to catch a serial killer before he can strike again. All of the subplots come together beautifully; everything adds color, nothing is extraneous. Even though the reader knows who the serial killer is throughout the novel — or at least, whose human body the killer occupies — Beukes creates tension that keeps the reader reading on long after midnight. The culmination of the plot at an abandoned auto parts factory is hair-raising.Broken Monsters is one of the best books of the year. I can’t wait to see what Beukes does next.Originally published at Fantasy Liteature. 4.5 stars rounded up to 5.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful. Wow, Just Wow! By Janet I'm still reeling from this novel. Lauren Beukes took me on a journey down the rabbit hole and back through a corn maze. The twists and turns in this excellent offering come fast and furious and if you like to read and try to figure out a mystery, this one's for you. The pacing is fast, the premise intriguing and the plot carries out the promise of the premise! Superbly detailed settings and appropriate dialogue move the story along. Ms. Buekes has a really strong grasp on character development so her characters are vibrant and multi layered. I may have lost some brain cells on this one due to lack of sleep - stayed up way too late to finish!*I received my copy from NetGalley.com in exchange for an honest review.
17 of 21 people found the following review helpful. Transglutiminate (ActivTG) anyone? By Gordon Review of Broken Monster by Lauren BeukesLauren Buekes is a South African author who has learned a lot about the sleazy parts of Detroit.It is a bitterly cold night in the Motor City, Detroit. The upper portion of the body of a young black boy has been found in a sewer tunnel; the lower half is a fused white tailed fawn. Indeed, a Pan like corpse. Death by a nail gun or bolt gun to the back of the head while innocently waiting at a bus stop. Many other bizarre murders follow, while the lives of other broken and ruined people go on. Broken haunted city with broken dreams. There are multiple murders that revolve around five characters. Some of them are homeless, but all unstable to varying degrees. Internet with a wandering pedophile. The streets are covered with Detroit diamonds and trash that is primarily cleaned by the police only when they are securing evidence for a crime investigation.The first half of this story seemed to linger in a confused state. It may have been that the reader has to focus on what appears to be five and sometimes more characters. But I can assure you that once the second half kicks in, and the reads knows for sure just who are the core five characters, this book explodes all over the place with the strange and totally unpredictable. At times it is difficult to tell what is a dream, what is hysteria, who is on drugs and is this reality or one big hallucination.I liked this once it started to pick up because at that point I had become familiar with the role and importance of each character. The descriptions of Detroit are right out of a travel log from hell and I am sure the city’s fathers are not at all pleased. I have read other reviews that label this book as scary and horrifying. I did not find those descriptions accurate. For me it was just plain creepy, but nonetheless, it was a very worthwhile read.I would rate this with 3.5 stars.
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