From the opening pages of "Unforgivable" you are thrown into this hard hitting, gritty and true to life story full force.

An lone attacker enters a yearly multicultural market/Souk in Cardiff and starts throwing IED's and then continues to set off a rucksack bomb. Death, panic and commotion ensues. Shortly after an explosion rips apart a mosque, while in a courtroom across the city a group of Asians are on trial for the vicious assault and murder of a young white male. The details of the murder are horrendous and quite upsetting - quite understandable that there is now unrest in the city due to this crime.

The author Mike Thomas describes the vibrant Souk in such detail as to make you believe you are actually there, smelling the spices and the food cooking and listening to all the different languages chattering about.

DC Will MacReady and his colleagues are tasked with finding the attacker - whilst still trying to prove himself after a horrific event the previous year. However, he feels sidelined when he's asked to investigate a vicious knife attack on a young woman. I haven't read the first in the MacReady series but there's enough in the book for it to be read and understood as a standalone.

I wasn't aware there were so many different departments across the police force and the author is well informed at all the different jobs that these officers do. There was a lot of sarcasm and negativity between the officers at times, but under pressure like they were here, I imagine this would be normal.

Action packed tension filled with emotion and intrigue this book is a brilliant read. Combining a police procedural with a powerful thriller storyline - I highly recommend "Unforgivable" and I would happily read more by Mike Thomas again.

Agree, Noakesy, but it does give you descriptions and color of the plant, over all a good read. Thank you Kristen.

I am the author of the book ... I just want to say to whom ever gets my book ... That while reading the book your mind will be set free so that you become healthy and free and your feet be placed in a lifestyle you have been waiting for thank you all

Celebrity vegan chef Emmy Wu .... This is really me !

Carnt nock the book its wounderfull but i ordered a completely diffrent copy to what was sent diffrent pictures sounds and colours.

3.5 stars - but I'm rounding up to 4 because I liked more than I disliked.

My first impression of this book, before I even picked it up was this: oh no. Firstly, Netgalley is pretty useless at telling you when a book is part way through a series, so I didn't initially realise this was the EIGHTH book in a series, secondly this is over 500 pages. I often find mystery thrillers over 400 pages are dragged out and could really be around 300 pages long with some good editing. But... I was pleasantly surprised.

This is my first taste of the David Raker series, as mentioned above, but it was so easy going into this one with no background information about him as a character. The book got straight on with the storyline of The Lost Man and didn't dwell too often on his life or characters he had a past with. I think when you get so deep into a series as to have 8 books, the new ones you come out with do need to be as close to a standalone as possible.

As for the 500+ page issue, I do think there could have been some bits cut out to make it a little shorter. There was quite a bit of repetition of what had happened just previously, like at the beginning of a new TV episode where is does a short re-cap. I also found some of the conversation tedious and skimmed them. There was a lot of...

"And so then what happened?" I asked. He didn't move.

"Tell me what happened," I pushed to get an answer, but he kept his head down and didn't say anything.

"Are you going to tell me what happened?" I wanted to force an answer out of him but I didn't want to rush him. This time he moved slightly to look at me, but still he didn't say anything.

... which, as you can imagine, gets a bit annoying when you come across several conversations like this. Other than these few little issues with the writing, I thought the rest of it was very good and that Weaver is a talented writer!

When it comes to the story, my feelings are really conflicted. What initially drew me to this book was the idea that a man is missing himself - he has no memory of where he comes from or of who he is - so he hires a PI to "find" him. What we get from that is a twisty, journey into the history of this man's life and how that led him to be washed up on UK shores.

Admittedly, this is one hell of a ride. It's fast paced and exciting, but it's also quite convoluted and towards the end where the big reveals are coming thick and fast, it gets a little ridiculous.

I liked this one but I couldn't quite believe it, and so couldn't get myself into it as much as I would have liked to. It starts off very chilling and intriguing but it gradually gets into "let's make this as crazy as we can".

Empowering, relate-able and insightful. A must read for those planning to leave the nest as soon as they can. Sometimes hearing that things will go wrong and that is okay from someone other than parents helps put things into perspective. Telling the hard truths about needing to eat more than a bag of nacho cheese chips for dinner, meaning not letting the money you spent on fresh produce going to waste. A funny reassurance that it is okay to contact mum or dad, or even Wiki-how despite your best efforts to act as "adult" as possible. That "adulting" is trying and failing and trying again, looking out for yourself, and doing those things like picking up your mountain of clothes off the floor once a week.

Lovable book, perfectly written to provide comfort in that transitioning from teenager to adult is not the ending of the world, and that you're not as clueless about this as you once thought.

I have to say that a bit of it shocked me. I mean the author fights bears and wolves, lives in horrid conditions, goes through God knows what and some of it is quite gritty, like grinding your teeth gritty, but his laid back style of writing and the humor he injects just seemed to smooth it all over and make for a really out of the box kind of read. In the end I really felt like this was someone who i'd want to hang out with a bit, especially if Hank (his awesome dog) was there too! It was a wild but entertaining read.

The start of the series, and does it start running! Love her characters and how they deal with life. Lots of fun and adventures. Can't wait to read the whole series.

Love her books! Full of adventures, "out there" characters, "new" inventions and suspense, drama, romance, fun. Even my husband likes them!

Plenty to like in here and some really terrific characters, some terrific scenes. Especially the Anarchists kidnap planning meeting which gave me some major giggles.