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Hunted was absolutely blood curdling, brutal and action packed, I was quite taken aback when I realised this thriller was part bloodbath rampage but once over the initial shock I really enjoyed what was a fast paced and suspenseful read.


The story is set in the desolate sunburned Australian Outback, After having returned from a road trip camping in the Northern Territory outback just over a week ago I feel so relieved I read this book after my trip and not before! Think an action packed Wolf Creek and youll understand where Im coming from!!

The story features fifty something Frank who owns a roadhouse that sits hours from the nearest town and on a remote highway.
He's been sent his granddaughter Allie to stay with him for a short time but when an injured young woman turns up at the roadhouse and collapses out of her car, coated in blood and mud the violence begins and nobody is safe.
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The scenes are so vivid and this book would make the most creepiest, messed up movie! Billed as 'Deliverance' meets 'Wolf Creek' meets 'Battle Royale'.
. . it's not fit to lick any of their boots I'm afraid, It's a turgid 'outback' story where protagonists fall foul of the evil locals,

This is a nasty, squalid book, . . but that's not the reason for just thestar, That is what you expect with a title like that and a cover that has dripping blood on it,

But you also expect tension and scares, . . and for me there was none of that, For a few reasons really,
The story itself was dull and badly written,
There were only thankfullypages of 'story', So no chance of any depth or scenebuilding whatsoever,
The structure of the narrative, It starts with a girl driving a truck and we are informed it is 'NOW', We also get a scene in an outback diner featuring an ageing loser and his granddaughter, It then

flips to 'THEN', . . and we see how she gets to the position of driving away,

The story as it is flits between 'then' and 'now', but there is absolutely no tension as you know how 'then' turns out, . . and honestly it's not that interesting or surprising, Absolutely nothing happens that isn't signposted way in advance, You know who will live and who is just fodder, What is worse is you just do not care, None of the characters whatsoever are any more than a cardboard cutout of characters we've met before in other movies and novels, . . who are far more rounded and deep, There was one death that mildly very mildly annoyed me,

And that was it,

It was boring, Predictable. Onedimensional. Unoriginal. It had one good point, It was short.

A really bad book, For all the wrong reasons, Hated it. Avoid. Not very flattering for Australia, For a moment I had the feeling that there are lots of dry deserted fields with villages of psychopaths, But it is a high tension book, Fear and anxiety are escalating, The writing is immature, but it is adequate for an action movie scenario, The ending is satisfying. You know those movies where you spend the first half getting angrier and angrier at the villains, and the second half watching with glee as those same villains are shot, stabbed, blown up and bludgeoned with a variety of weighty objects This is one of those, but in book form.
Consequently, the anger lasts longer, but so does the catharsis,

Frank runs a petrol station in the middle of nowhere, When a young woman arrives, bleeding from a shredded leg and barely conscious, he and his troubled granddaughter barely have time to wonder who she is and how she got here before a group of armed and almost comically threatening smalltown thugs arrive looking for her.
What follows is a tense and claustrophobic standoff, sprinkled with flashbacks that slowly reveal the young woman's past,

THE HUNTED is written more like a movie than a book, with frequent smash cuts and a surprisingly large cast of characters, many of whom have backstories revealed only at the last minute often in dramatic confessions to other players.
But it captures the Australian outback in a way films usually don't and perhaps can't with vivid prose, rich sensations and a distinctive air of menace, The dialogue rings true, and the sudden bloodshed is always satisfying often troublingly so, One wonders, though, if rural readers will be offended by how easily their city counterparts are convinced by the central premise, Χαριτωμένο,απλά. Ευχάριστο και γρήγορο αλλά ουδόλως αξιοσημείωτο.
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The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser,.

Frank is a service station owner on a littleused highway who just wants a quiet life, His granddaughter has just come to stay to fix her attitude but they don't talk a lot, When a badly injured young woman arrives at the service station with several cars in pursuit, Frank and a few unsuspecting customers are thrust into a sudden lifeordeath standoff.
But who are this group of people who will yup to any lengths for revenge And what do they want Other than no survivors, . .

Woooowwwwww. This is one excellent piece of writing! It won't be for everyone because of the detailed violence and crude language, BUT. If you don't mind that, then definitely pick this one up, I can't believe I almost returned this to the library without reading because I had too many books at home it would have been such a shame to have missed this one! It's an intense, fast and actionpacked read it has a 'Wolf Creek' or 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' feel to it which I wasn't really expecting at all to be honest, but worked so well.
The story alternates between the current standoff, and then the events involving Maggie that led to the standoff, The suspense and tension makes for one compelling storyline, I look forward to the sequel featuring Maggie, she is one hell of a badass woman,
Highly recommend this novel to those that can appreciate a dark thriller/horror type of story, A new Australian author with his debut novel and fast paced outback thriller, A grandfather runs a service station in the middle of nowhere, when his granddaughter is sent to live with him, Complicating his quiet life further, the passing traffic brings people who stop for petrol and food, Then one day, a harbinger of trouble appears in the form of a injured young woman at his door, This is a menacing and fast paced action tale, that builds up into a dark crescendo, that some may find overtly violent, It's a tense and electrifying read, particularly if you like a dark crime tinge, A sequel is indicated and the adventure of a new hero will be interesting to unfold, So astar read. Maggie is the Hunted, the intended prey of violent men who she has upset badly and are now out for revenge, That is until she stumbles into Frank's run down roadhouse on a lonely stretch of highway in the Australian outback, Now Frank, his granddaughter Allie and customers are all the Hunted,

This is one for those who like their thrillers dark, graphic and menacing, More violent than books I normally read and definitely not one for the faint hearted, but utterly compelling, The waves of suspense just keep on coming as the tension ramps up and up to boiling point, A high octane rollercoaster of a novel, brilliantly written with strong characters to cheer for, Just don't read it before going to sleep, like I did,

With thanks to HarperCollins Australia and Netgalley for a copy to read Ούτε μια μέρα δεν μου πήρε να τελειώσω το συγκεκριμένο βιβλίο,

Από την στιγμή που διάβασα τον πρόλογο,
μου τράβηξε το ενδιαφέρον και κατάλαβα αμέσως ότι θα διαβάσω κάτι ξεχωριστό, κάτι το τελειως διαφορετικό.
Γρήγορη πλοκή, χωρίς περιττές περιγραφές σε βάζει κατευθείαν στο κλίμα του τι επρόκειτο να ακολουθήσει χώρίς όμως να είσαι τελείως σίγουρος με το τι έχει να κάνει.
Η αγωνία, το κυνήγι, η επιβίωση και η αδρεναλίνη παίζουν τον πρώτο ρόλο.

Ένας παππούς ιδιοκτήτης ενός σταθμού εξυπηρέτησης αυτοκινήτων που φιλοξενεί την εγγονή του και η εμφάνιση μιας γυναίκας άσχημα τραυματισμένης είναι μόνο η αρχή της ιστορίας.
Οι περιγραφές του τοπίου της απέραντης έρημης έκτασης της Αυστραλίας σε κάνουν από την αρχή να αισθάνεσαι ότι βρίσκεσαι πραγματικά εκεί. Οι κεντρικοί ήρωες του βιβλίου είναι τόσο καλά δοσμένοι που νιώθεις ότι τους βλέπεις μπροστά σου.
Εξαιρετικές σκηνές δράσης και ένα κινηματογραφικό τέλος που πραγματικά σε καθηλώνει.

Τα Θηράματα είναι ένα εκπληκτικο θρίλερ με αίμα, πολύ αίμα, που διαβάζεται με μια ανάσα. Where does the adventure end, . .
and the nightmare begin

Frank owns a service station on a littleused highway, His granddaughter, Allie, is sent to stay with him for the summer, but they don't talk a lot,

Simon is a dreamer and an idealist, in thrall to the romance of the open road and desperately in search of something,

Maggie is the woman who will bring them together, someone whose own personal journey will visit unimaginable terror on them all, . .

'With echoes of Deliverance and Battle Royale, the Australian outbackset The Hunted is a truly terrifying, breathlessly exciting novel.
It gutpunches you in the first few pages and doesn't let you recover until the final, thrilling climax, An extraordinary book. ' M. W. CRAVEN

What readers are saying:

'A high octane rollercoaster of a novel, brilliantly written with strong characters to cheer for.
Just don't read it before going to sleep like I did, '

'This type of horror/action thriller isn't my usual thing but boy, did I love this book, '

'This entire book was just pure, fastpaced tension and I loved every insane page of it, '

'I'd say it's a hard book to put down, but a couple of times I found the suspense heightened enough that I needed a break.
That's how good it was, '

'Even the squeamish would find it difficult to put this book down for very long, '.