Review: Not for the faint of heart, scary, terrifying, extremely intriguing
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2014
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.Hell’s Door is my kind of book. It’s a twisted mix of Hannibal (think the TV series – I find that even more twisted than the movies) and the worst episode of Criminal Minds or Bones you can think of. That’s a good description of what Hell’s Door is all about.Detective Lacy Powers and her partner, John Demmings, are chasing a sadistic killer who goes above and beyond anyone’s wildest imaginations. The two of them go undercover in a perverse subculture, and a nightclub called Hells Door, where they meet their prime suspect, Ramsay Wolfe. However, Ramsay may not be the only one doing the killings, and may not even be the real killer. Evidence is scarce, and Lacy and John have to go to their limits and beyond to catch this killer.Lacy and John are typical detectives – overworked, stressed, barely any time for a life outside the force, haunted by images of the victims, suppressed by guilt for not catching the culprit sooner. John’s marriage is failing, as is typical for detectives, at least so it seems if I have to believe TV and books. Lacy is married to work, obsessed with it, even. There’s underlying sexual tension between the two of them that would be pointless to deny.But that aside, the characters don’t really matter. At least, neither of them matters as much as the serial killer who we often see glimpses of while he/she (but for the sake of this review, I’ll call the killer a ‘he’) does his sadistic work. Some of the scenes are gruesome, others are chilling, and they’re all sadistic, disturbing, and unsettling. The killer is truly a disturbed individual, but when we see glimpses of his behavior, we slowly uncover glimpses of his psyche as well, of his past, of what made him become this sadist.This book definitely isn’t for the faint of heart, but I loved it. It was scary, terrifying, and extremely intriguing. For anyone who loves TV series like Hannibal and Criminal Minds, and who doesn’t mind if things put another step further, this book is an absolute must.