Graham Downs reviewed Blood Mark by JP McLean
Perfect Pacing, Great Twists, Riveting Story
4 stars
That was really good!
The pacing is perfect, the twists are good enough that I almost saw them coming, and the story is riveting.
It's about a woman with strange birthmarks and stranger dreams, and I kept reading to find out what would happen next.
Everything that happens makes perfect sense, and I totally identify with the main character. Everything she does in response to what happens to her is exactly what I can imagine myself doing.
No spoilers, but aother thing I enjoyed about it is that one of the main characters (not the MC) is a prostitute, and the author writes her as a normal human being. So many times in books and TV shows, sex workers are either vilified, or they're portrayed as women desperately trying to feed their children or eke out a living, or they're drug addicts.
This woman is none of those things. She's …
That was really good!
The pacing is perfect, the twists are good enough that I almost saw them coming, and the story is riveting.
It's about a woman with strange birthmarks and stranger dreams, and I kept reading to find out what would happen next.
Everything that happens makes perfect sense, and I totally identify with the main character. Everything she does in response to what happens to her is exactly what I can imagine myself doing.
No spoilers, but aother thing I enjoyed about it is that one of the main characters (not the MC) is a prostitute, and the author writes her as a normal human being. So many times in books and TV shows, sex workers are either vilified, or they're portrayed as women desperately trying to feed their children or eke out a living, or they're drug addicts.
This woman is none of those things. She's not crazy about doing what she does, and she wouldn't mind getting out of the business, but she also treats it as a fairly normal, respectable job. Not that we see too much detail of her "gigs", and it's not as if the book is erotica (far from it), but I appreciated the fact that she's just a regular person who happens to occasionally sleep with men for money, and while it's not her favourite part of her life, she doesn't hate herself for it either. It's refreshing.