Reviews: Troll (8)
“A thrilling dark page turner”
(Paperback)
Juggling a life in Dubai and England, Fortune finds himself mainly with his work, separating him more and more from his family. Though when Fortune hears his daughter, Sophie is missing, and he'll do all he can to find her. When the police rule her as a suicide, case closed, her father will stop at nothing, running through all leads that may have been overlooked. Perhaps the troll on his daughters blog? Or the boyfriend who never showed up? Or maybe secrets, long forgotten have come back to haunt them?
With more twists and turns, this dark and dangerous novel will leave you hanging on to every word. Through the chapters flicking between Sophie's point of view and Fortune's it allows a further insight into the horrors at play. After all, it's all a game to a troll.
“Sad at times but excellent at the same time”
(Paperback)
The beginning of this story will mess with your mind and keep you guessing what will happen next.
Fortune is a father in despair it's been weeks and the police still haven't found his daughter.The police are scaling back the investigation looking for Sophie and Fortune is very upset as it seems his daughter has disappeared of the face of earth.
Fortune's first thought was that perhaps Sophie has gone on holiday. Run off with a new boyfriend. Fortune needs to establish where his daughter has gone. Maybe a clue has been found a note has been placed on Sophie's desk saying WHY SHOULD I TAKE ANY MORE? Sadly it appears that Sophie had a history of suicide attempts.
The fact is she has disappeared and nobody knows were she went. Fortune thought about all the times his wife had been there for Sophie. His wife had believed in their daughter far more than Fortune had. With the unexpected disappearance of their daughter Fortune rather hoped that this would bring him and his wife together, but instead with sadness this was something that would finally drive them apart.
What is very clear in this sad story is that Fortune was a father who was filled with guilt for his failure in being a good father.
The author has delivered perfectly the destruction that online trolls viciously harass online. Could Sophie's disappearance be linked to an unknown predator?
With monsters who live online I highly recommend Troll
“Perplexing”
(Paperback)
I stumbled across this book a couple of years ago and it was one of the first crime books I read to heavily feature social media. I remember the writing as being digestible and easy to soar through and I believe at the time this book took only around a day!
So this book definitely gets some points for being an interesting, easy read. But I am afraid I have to deduct some points too. The ending was bewildering and felt disjointed from the rest of the book, and I remember characterizing the villain's motivations as weak. Nothing bothers me more than a villain without a cause, haha!
All in all the fact that I can still remember this book years onward is a promising sign and shows that the plot was unique enough to be memorable amongst hundreds of forgettable crime fics. That is of course in spite of my hangups over the ending. I have to award this book three stars, just because it wasn't believable enough to go down in literature.
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Troll
Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction, Crime, Thrillers & True Crime, Crime & Thrillers
D. B. Thorne (author)
Paperback Published on: 01/06/2017
Price: £12.99

