Review: Rags And Bones looks evil in the eye
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2013
Ian Woodhead's books are true horror - horrifying things happen on every page, and it's not about happy endings or hope for the future. It's all about scaring the life out of the reader or at least giving you a bad night trying to sleep! Rags and Bones, in my opinion, is Woodhead's best book yet. It's full of horror, no doubt about that, and it doesn't let you go from start to finish.I could give you all kinds of creepy storyline info, but the reason this book is so good is that the reader will find themselves thinking (always a good thing!) about the future of our world. About how our world deals with evil and power and greed and then, conversely, how we control those things or at least survive them.I hate to use a cliche when describing such a fine book, but Rags and Bones is woven, taking this  thread and this one and twisting them this way and that way. Then Woodhead would add a slice of impending doom and tie that in and remember that horrible man in chapter one who you figured was just some guy, one of those throwaway characters? He's woven in there and when you find him you can follow him back right to the beginning of it all. You'll also find yourself saying (probably out loud, like I did) "No! He really didn't go  that far!!" Yeah, Woodhead always goes that far and farther. His books are unique because of his dark, pushing, persistent outlook which shows a world made filthy by people and people made filthy by the world. It's a bleak, scary world inside an Ian Woodhead book, but you'll enjoy your time there. Sometimes a bit of wickedness can be a pleasure.