Razorblade Tears

The Sunday Times Thriller of the Month from the Author of BLACKTOP WASTELAND

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Razorblade Tears (2021, Headline Publishing Group)

English language

Published Sept. 28, 2021 by Headline Publishing Group.

ISBN:
9781472286529

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3 stars (1 review)

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3 stars

The exploration of grief and coming to accept their sons for who they were was a really strong aspect of this book and easily the best written. In fact the exploration of the themes of racism and homophobia is some of the best I've seen recently because of how raw and real it felt. Considering how much it's talked about between the characters, it very rarely felt preachy or like the author was lecturing you through the page which is a really good thing.

Plenty of very, very gory violence (like seriously, if you hate gore maybe skip this one) which I just don't really care about positively or negatively, though it did feel it took up more page space than it should have.

I had some issues with the writing, mostly just because there were a lot of unnecessary words and sentences on the page (i.e. over describing inconsequential …

Subjects

  • Fiction, noir
  • Fiction, african american & black, mystery & detective