Opening the pages to Unforgivable you are thrown straight into the action, and oh boy is there plenty of action to keep you gripped.
When a bomb is set off in a busy souk there’s pure devastation, utter chaos and sadly very believable scenes. Another explosion is then set off in a Mosque, causing more devastation and to the police, to everyone really it looks like a terror attack and the hunt is on to find the killer. Reading these scenes my heart was in my mouth, I could have been in the middle of the destruction, witnessing it all for real.
There are a few different threads to Unforgivable, so not only is Will Macready on the hunt for the attacker, he has another case to crack as well. Sadly though due to the attacks on the souk and mosque it seems this case may take a bit of a back seat and may not be quite as straight forward as first thought.
We also find out about Will’s incredibly complicated personal life which was where I thought I would struggle a bit with not having read the first book, but Thomas has done a good job of slowly giving you a bit of back story. It’s not over powering and I don’t believe it will be repetitive from book one, sometimes I find there is so much info from previous books it can take over a new story but not with Unforgivable, I got enough to make sense but not enough to feel like I know the whole story of book one and I really want to read it now.
Unforgivable is a fast paced thriller, it’s gritty, dark, utterly consuming and incredibly believable. I’ll definitely recommend this book and I’ll be looking forward to reading more from Mike Thomas soon.
When a bomb is set off in a busy souk there’s pure devastation, utter chaos and sadly very believable scenes. Another explosion is then set off in a Mosque, causing more devastation and to the police, to everyone really it looks like a terror attack and the hunt is on to find the killer. Reading these scenes my heart was in my mouth, I could have been in the middle of the destruction, witnessing it all for real.
There are a few different threads to Unforgivable, so not only is Will Macready on the hunt for the attacker, he has another case to crack as well. Sadly though due to the attacks on the souk and mosque it seems this case may take a bit of a back seat and may not be quite as straight forward as first thought.
We also find out about Will’s incredibly complicated personal life which was where I thought I would struggle a bit with not having read the first book, but Thomas has done a good job of slowly giving you a bit of back story. It’s not over powering and I don’t believe it will be repetitive from book one, sometimes I find there is so much info from previous books it can take over a new story but not with Unforgivable, I got enough to make sense but not enough to feel like I know the whole story of book one and I really want to read it now.
Unforgivable is a fast paced thriller, it’s gritty, dark, utterly consuming and incredibly believable. I’ll definitely recommend this book and I’ll be looking forward to reading more from Mike Thomas soon.