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Tuesday Falling
A relentless thriller that will grip you by the throat and refuse to let go.
You’ve never met anyone like Tuesday. She has suffered extreme cruelty at the hands of men, and so has taken it upon herself to seek vengeance. She wants to protect and help others like her, to ease their suffering. A force to be reckoned with, she lives beneath the streets of London in the hidden network of forgotten tunnels that honeycomb the city – and this is her preferred hunting ground.
When Tuesday is connected to a series of brutal attacks on gang members, DCI Loss takes on the investigation. A burned-out detective still suffering the devastating effects of the unsolved murder of his daughter three years earlier, the case starts to hit close to home. Because soon Loss will discover that Tuesday could hold the key to uncovering the truth about what happened to his daughter…
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First published March 5, 2015
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November 14, 2016
The weak. That’s me. Five foot fuck- all and all dressed in black, like i’ve got nothing better to do with my time than watch “The Matrix”, and make pretty pictures on my arm with a blade. A pretty girl, pretty fucked up.
Ripe for the plucking.
Come on then, boys.
Pluck me.
Goodness, gracious me. This one grabbed me by the jugular and would not let go.
Tuesday is just a tiny waif of a goth girl, or better still a goth ghost. She lives and manoeuvres in London's underground, hidden in a network of old subway lines, sewers and tunnels. She is also very tech savy. She knows her underground world, thoroughly,and completely. Where to go, where to get everything she needs, how to get away and where to hide. It is her labyrinth.
Three years ago Tuesday suffered an enormous loss. She was badly hurt, broken inside and out, battered beyond repair. Three years, hiding underground, three years healing and three years training her mind and body. Three years developing her plan. The time is now.
Six boys have just got on the tube, ranging in age from thirteen to sixteen, with their drop-crotch trousers and gangsta attitude. It takes them a couple minutes before they spot me, goth girl, sitting all alone. Easy pickings. They exchange a couple of low fives and the one in front approaches me, wants to know if I am up for some fun as he shoves his right hand down his trousers and jiggles the goods. But me, well I can’t be fucked anymore. I turn round to face them, pull the knife out of my bag and stab trouser boy in the throat.
Who is she? DI Loss wants to know as he is looking at the CCTV from the tube. It may be a recording, as opposed to a live link but there is no disguising the blood. His DS is not looking at what her boss is, she has seen it already. There is blood everywhere, all over the bodies of six teenage boys. They know it is not the girl’s blood because they just bloody well watched her walk out of the tube. Is that…………...was she smiling?
Tuesday may well be in hiding but she has no intention of hiding her long planned revenge. No she wants everyone to see, especially the authorities. They can watch her do what they have been unable to accomplish. Revenge and not just for herself either. For every young girl or boy like herself who have been victimized by the drug gangs that have taken over housing estates all over London. Raping, brutalizing and pillaging, all the while capturing everything on film and using it to vilify their victims on social media..
Well come on then boys, two can play at this game.
This story is so fresh and exciting and unlike anything I have read before in this genre. Tuesday, our goth girl is one tough as nails heroine/villainess - whatever, that you just can’t help cheering for. And you are going to love her weapons of choice, all plucked from yesteryear, from another time and place. And even though your sane,and rational brain knows that this vigilante bloodletting is wrong, your reader’s mind also knows all about the atrocious crimes this criminal element has perpetrated.
So come on down to Tuesday’s labyrinth. Trust me you cannot look away.
Ripe for the plucking.
Come on then, boys.
Pluck me.
Goodness, gracious me. This one grabbed me by the jugular and would not let go.
Tuesday is just a tiny waif of a goth girl, or better still a goth ghost. She lives and manoeuvres in London's underground, hidden in a network of old subway lines, sewers and tunnels. She is also very tech savy. She knows her underground world, thoroughly,and completely. Where to go, where to get everything she needs, how to get away and where to hide. It is her labyrinth.
Three years ago Tuesday suffered an enormous loss. She was badly hurt, broken inside and out, battered beyond repair. Three years, hiding underground, three years healing and three years training her mind and body. Three years developing her plan. The time is now.
Six boys have just got on the tube, ranging in age from thirteen to sixteen, with their drop-crotch trousers and gangsta attitude. It takes them a couple minutes before they spot me, goth girl, sitting all alone. Easy pickings. They exchange a couple of low fives and the one in front approaches me, wants to know if I am up for some fun as he shoves his right hand down his trousers and jiggles the goods. But me, well I can’t be fucked anymore. I turn round to face them, pull the knife out of my bag and stab trouser boy in the throat.
Who is she? DI Loss wants to know as he is looking at the CCTV from the tube. It may be a recording, as opposed to a live link but there is no disguising the blood. His DS is not looking at what her boss is, she has seen it already. There is blood everywhere, all over the bodies of six teenage boys. They know it is not the girl’s blood because they just bloody well watched her walk out of the tube. Is that…………...was she smiling?
Tuesday may well be in hiding but she has no intention of hiding her long planned revenge. No she wants everyone to see, especially the authorities. They can watch her do what they have been unable to accomplish. Revenge and not just for herself either. For every young girl or boy like herself who have been victimized by the drug gangs that have taken over housing estates all over London. Raping, brutalizing and pillaging, all the while capturing everything on film and using it to vilify their victims on social media..
Well come on then boys, two can play at this game.
This story is so fresh and exciting and unlike anything I have read before in this genre. Tuesday, our goth girl is one tough as nails heroine/villainess - whatever, that you just can’t help cheering for. And you are going to love her weapons of choice, all plucked from yesteryear, from another time and place. And even though your sane,and rational brain knows that this vigilante bloodletting is wrong, your reader’s mind also knows all about the atrocious crimes this criminal element has perpetrated.
So come on down to Tuesday’s labyrinth. Trust me you cannot look away.
April 15, 2025
Re-Read! 15/4/2025. In my process of book sorting I keep getting sidetracked by finding books I read years ago and then getting into them again. Honestly this review opinion from 2016 still holds. This is an awesome read. Officially one of my favourite contemporary books of all time.
Oh wow! What a total surprise this book is. Absolutely fantastically brilliant and definitely one of the best books I’ve read in 2016. This one really intrigued me on every level and really touched on some new plot ideas that are so original. I absolutely freaking loved it.
So basic plot for you. We meet a "ghost" of a young woman who makes the hidden tunnels under London her base and home, she is super technology savvy and uses it to help victims of horrific crime where she steps into heroine vigilante mode with the greatest of ease. She is a human force to be reckoned with and if you are one of the bad guys you are going to regret every crossing her path. The way she uses the web, especially those areas of it where most of us don't go or even know about to help others and create total havoc in London is so well researched and presented. I was VERY impressed by the content in this novel.
It is uber thrilling from page one, I was sucked in and it did not let me go, I just kept reading until the end and am ever hopeful that there MAY be a follow on book. She is playing games with the police, the crime lords and the criminals and has some very clever tactics and techniques for instigating her schemes to achieve vindication for the victims that she so passionately helps. Her character is tough, gritty, smart, brave, broken and so darn likeable. How did she get to be this way? That is a huge part of the story and one I won't spoil for you here.
A fast paced plot that is a smooth as silk, chapter upon chapter of awesome writing that will really take your breath away. This book OWNED ME and will stand out as a favourite forever. If this is ever made into a TV mini-series or movie I am so there. Absolutely awesome. The author I give huge praise to as for a debut novel this is up there with some top authors that hog the best seller list.
As she slashes and slices her way through London's most undesirable, despicable criminals you will be cheering her on whilst feeling slightly concerned that you are condoning her vigilante violence. Well at least I did a bit. There are brilliant plot lines that all intertwine as it picks up gear to what is a fantastic finish that totally spun my head and took my breath away. My house could have blown away in a tornado at that point and I would not have noticed.
Exceptional writing, brilliantly developed characters, a plot that is to die for (pun intended), a message that hits home and one darn ripper of a book. Do not miss this one, put it on your to-read list or better yet go grab it now and settle in for one hell of a ride with a young woman called Tuesday. I wish all books had this level of readability and strength to absorb the reader into the book.
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Oh wow! What a total surprise this book is. Absolutely fantastically brilliant and definitely one of the best books I’ve read in 2016. This one really intrigued me on every level and really touched on some new plot ideas that are so original. I absolutely freaking loved it.
So basic plot for you. We meet a "ghost" of a young woman who makes the hidden tunnels under London her base and home, she is super technology savvy and uses it to help victims of horrific crime where she steps into heroine vigilante mode with the greatest of ease. She is a human force to be reckoned with and if you are one of the bad guys you are going to regret every crossing her path. The way she uses the web, especially those areas of it where most of us don't go or even know about to help others and create total havoc in London is so well researched and presented. I was VERY impressed by the content in this novel.
It is uber thrilling from page one, I was sucked in and it did not let me go, I just kept reading until the end and am ever hopeful that there MAY be a follow on book. She is playing games with the police, the crime lords and the criminals and has some very clever tactics and techniques for instigating her schemes to achieve vindication for the victims that she so passionately helps. Her character is tough, gritty, smart, brave, broken and so darn likeable. How did she get to be this way? That is a huge part of the story and one I won't spoil for you here.
A fast paced plot that is a smooth as silk, chapter upon chapter of awesome writing that will really take your breath away. This book OWNED ME and will stand out as a favourite forever. If this is ever made into a TV mini-series or movie I am so there. Absolutely awesome. The author I give huge praise to as for a debut novel this is up there with some top authors that hog the best seller list.
As she slashes and slices her way through London's most undesirable, despicable criminals you will be cheering her on whilst feeling slightly concerned that you are condoning her vigilante violence. Well at least I did a bit. There are brilliant plot lines that all intertwine as it picks up gear to what is a fantastic finish that totally spun my head and took my breath away. My house could have blown away in a tornado at that point and I would not have noticed.
Exceptional writing, brilliantly developed characters, a plot that is to die for (pun intended), a message that hits home and one darn ripper of a book. Do not miss this one, put it on your to-read list or better yet go grab it now and settle in for one hell of a ride with a young woman called Tuesday. I wish all books had this level of readability and strength to absorb the reader into the book.
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I hope you enjoyed it, if you did I’d be delighted if you leave me a “like” and I love to read your comments. If you’d like to connect you can follow me or please send me a friend request.
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March 2, 2016
An impossible to put down thriller of a read about victims and revenge, and what happens when the tables are turned, making it so incredibly satisfying to read.
Absolutely brilliant!
Fast paced and easy to follow, so has a bit of a feel of Young Adult fiction to it, but not being a huge fan of YA, I still loved this, and would say it can be enjoyed by those who love adult thrillers too.
Although there is heavy subject matter covered, there was also a hint of dark humour too, so I felt the overall storyline had a good balance of serious topics mixed with humour and excitement to keep you entertained throughout.
I highly recommend this to fans of thrillers, and if you loved Normal, by Graeme Cameron, I would definitely recommend this, as it has a similar mix of dark thriller and humour to it.
Absolutely brilliant!
Fast paced and easy to follow, so has a bit of a feel of Young Adult fiction to it, but not being a huge fan of YA, I still loved this, and would say it can be enjoyed by those who love adult thrillers too.
Although there is heavy subject matter covered, there was also a hint of dark humour too, so I felt the overall storyline had a good balance of serious topics mixed with humour and excitement to keep you entertained throughout.
I highly recommend this to fans of thrillers, and if you loved Normal, by Graeme Cameron, I would definitely recommend this, as it has a similar mix of dark thriller and humour to it.
May 18, 2015
‘These brothers aren’t really living, they’re simply decomposing in slow motion.”
Metropolitan police detectives Loss and Stone can barely believe what's going on, when a gang of rapists and drug pushers is taken down - effortlessly and in seconds - by a tiny wisp of a Goth girl, who films the encounter and posts the footage to social media. Her name is Tuesday.
In the days that follow, Tuesday emerges from the shadows like a wraith, strikes with the deadly accuracy of a cobra, and then vanishes in the manner of a magician’s assistant.
She is the most enormous fun!
Within hours of the first attack Tuesday and her antics are trending around London, giving hope to victims of drug dealers and gang rapists, sending fear into the heart of London’s underworld, and making some powerful men very angry indeed. Half the city wants to erect a statue to Tuesday, a sizable chunk wants her safely in police custody and the rest want her to die a slow and painful death.
A high-speed, action-littered, techno-sprinkled battle commences, regularly punctuated by scenes of high tension, in a three-dimensional London, the like of which we’ve rarely seen before, because Tuesday lives in the tunnels, sewers and cellars of the world beneath.
In an overcrowded marketplace, this debut author, S Williams, has managed to achieve something remarkable. He or she (I don’t know) has combined a likeable, engaging, awe-inspiring main character, a fascinating sense of place, some serious social themes and a healthy dose of real, kick-ass humour.
Tuesday Falling is quirky, original and as darkly funny as a pantomime villain. I recommend it hugely.
Metropolitan police detectives Loss and Stone can barely believe what's going on, when a gang of rapists and drug pushers is taken down - effortlessly and in seconds - by a tiny wisp of a Goth girl, who films the encounter and posts the footage to social media. Her name is Tuesday.
In the days that follow, Tuesday emerges from the shadows like a wraith, strikes with the deadly accuracy of a cobra, and then vanishes in the manner of a magician’s assistant.
She is the most enormous fun!
Within hours of the first attack Tuesday and her antics are trending around London, giving hope to victims of drug dealers and gang rapists, sending fear into the heart of London’s underworld, and making some powerful men very angry indeed. Half the city wants to erect a statue to Tuesday, a sizable chunk wants her safely in police custody and the rest want her to die a slow and painful death.
A high-speed, action-littered, techno-sprinkled battle commences, regularly punctuated by scenes of high tension, in a three-dimensional London, the like of which we’ve rarely seen before, because Tuesday lives in the tunnels, sewers and cellars of the world beneath.
In an overcrowded marketplace, this debut author, S Williams, has managed to achieve something remarkable. He or she (I don’t know) has combined a likeable, engaging, awe-inspiring main character, a fascinating sense of place, some serious social themes and a healthy dose of real, kick-ass humour.
Tuesday Falling is quirky, original and as darkly funny as a pantomime villain. I recommend it hugely.
June 3, 2015
I can't begin to explain how much I loved this book. Firstly it grabbed me by the throat on the first page and did not let go until the last page. This is a brilliantly, clever and witty book which would appeal to anyone with a sense of humour. The main character Tuesday makes Lisbeth Salander seem like a techno-phobe. This book is like the love child of Kill Bill and Kick Ass and I absolutely loved it. If you like dark humour and enjoyed Normal by Graeme Cameron, then I am pretty confident that you will love this too.
March 15, 2017
So...I've got a stack of books I've been adding to for years in a "some day" pile. This year, I decided that every 5th read would be a random selection from that pile in an effort to make a little space on my shelves & my kindle.
I got this a couple of years ago so I'm really late to the party but now I see what all the hoopla was about. While I try to shape my thoughts into something vaguely coherent, just know this was brilliant. Read it in a day because I could not put it down. Where, oh where is book #2?
Review to follow.
I got this a couple of years ago so I'm really late to the party but now I see what all the hoopla was about. While I try to shape my thoughts into something vaguely coherent, just know this was brilliant. Read it in a day because I could not put it down. Where, oh where is book #2?
Review to follow.
February 25, 2016
WOW!
I need to come down from this book. What an exceptional story and brilliant writing.
Tuesday is living in the hidden underground and tunnels that hide beneath the streets of London. She is not your average girl sleeping rough, though! She is seeking vengeance against the likes of men that have contributed to her horrible past.
I don't want to give any spoilers - you can read the synopsis.
All I can say is - READ THIS BOOK! Fast paced, brutal, page-turning, and an amazing storyline.
It blew me away. I can't recommend this book enough!!
I need to come down from this book. What an exceptional story and brilliant writing.
Tuesday is living in the hidden underground and tunnels that hide beneath the streets of London. She is not your average girl sleeping rough, though! She is seeking vengeance against the likes of men that have contributed to her horrible past.
I don't want to give any spoilers - you can read the synopsis.
All I can say is - READ THIS BOOK! Fast paced, brutal, page-turning, and an amazing storyline.
It blew me away. I can't recommend this book enough!!
March 8, 2016
Thank you to Net Galley, the publishers and the author for an advanced copy, and what a book.
So of my favourite authors praise this book.
An awe-inspiring main character…I recommend it hugely!’ SHARON BOLTON
‘I could not put it down. Totally loved it. Excellent writing, brilliant story’ ANGELA MARSONS
A relentless thriller that will grip you by the throat and refuse to let go! Perfect for fans of SILENT SCREAM by Angela Marsons, and THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO.
You’ve never met anyone like Tuesday. She has suffered extreme cruelty at the hands of men, and so has taken it upon herself to seek vengeance. She wants to protect and help others like her, to ease their suffering. A force to be reckoned with, she lives beneath the streets of London in the hidden network of forgotten tunnels that honeycomb the city – and this is her preferred hunting ground.
When Tuesday is connected to a series of brutal attacks on gang members, DI Loss takes on the investigation. A burned-out detective still suffering the devastating effects of the unsolved murder of his daughter three years earlier, the case starts to hit close to home. Because soon Loss will discover that Tuesday could hold the key to uncovering the truth about what happened to his daughter…
Tuesday is a young girl who has had a tough life. Instead of acting as a victim, she decides to take justice into her own hands. She lays on a macabre theatre to catch the attention of the only policeman she knows she can trust: DS Loss and DS Stone.
Fantastic characters, very clever story, very fast paced, and keeps you guessing all the way you cannot but like this great character Tuesday, and also the great relationship with Loss and Stone.
A great debut book, this author could go places.
So of my favourite authors praise this book.
An awe-inspiring main character…I recommend it hugely!’ SHARON BOLTON
‘I could not put it down. Totally loved it. Excellent writing, brilliant story’ ANGELA MARSONS
A relentless thriller that will grip you by the throat and refuse to let go! Perfect for fans of SILENT SCREAM by Angela Marsons, and THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO.
You’ve never met anyone like Tuesday. She has suffered extreme cruelty at the hands of men, and so has taken it upon herself to seek vengeance. She wants to protect and help others like her, to ease their suffering. A force to be reckoned with, she lives beneath the streets of London in the hidden network of forgotten tunnels that honeycomb the city – and this is her preferred hunting ground.
When Tuesday is connected to a series of brutal attacks on gang members, DI Loss takes on the investigation. A burned-out detective still suffering the devastating effects of the unsolved murder of his daughter three years earlier, the case starts to hit close to home. Because soon Loss will discover that Tuesday could hold the key to uncovering the truth about what happened to his daughter…
Tuesday is a young girl who has had a tough life. Instead of acting as a victim, she decides to take justice into her own hands. She lays on a macabre theatre to catch the attention of the only policeman she knows she can trust: DS Loss and DS Stone.
Fantastic characters, very clever story, very fast paced, and keeps you guessing all the way you cannot but like this great character Tuesday, and also the great relationship with Loss and Stone.
A great debut book, this author could go places.
February 9, 2023
If you haven't met Tuesday, you really should.
Tuesday lives in the London Underground and turns the overground upside down.
You won't be able to put this book down, short snappy chapters that leave you screaming for more.
Well researched, loved the underground secrets, the unused stations and hidden rivers. This book really gives you an insight into the London that's there but unseen.
Well-formed characters and a nail-biting story line.
Five stars.
At the time of posting this book is available on Kindle Unlimited.
Tuesday lives in the London Underground and turns the overground upside down.
You won't be able to put this book down, short snappy chapters that leave you screaming for more.
Well researched, loved the underground secrets, the unused stations and hidden rivers. This book really gives you an insight into the London that's there but unseen.
Well-formed characters and a nail-biting story line.
Five stars.
At the time of posting this book is available on Kindle Unlimited.
March 29, 2016
At first, this book felt like it should have been a YA book. The main character, Tuesday, is a young girl who has suffered extreme pain and loss. The author has given this girl a voice that is very realistic with the lingo and profanity and snarky comments. This irritated me at first, but maybe I just got used to it the more I read. Tuesday lives in the underground of London, which gives her access to many things, including the ability to disappear quickly. Until the end of the book, I didn't have much sympathy for Tuesday, but I admired her for surviving brutal circumstances.
DI Loss and DS Stone make quite a team. They seem more like equals than supervisor and subordinate. I sometimes wished that Loss had a more common name. It didn't feel natural to read "loss" as a proper name. Background on Loss and Stone was too brief. I would have liked to know more about them.
I enjoyed the book, but I didn't love it. Halfway through, I began to consider stopping. What kept me going was the need to find out what happened with DI Loss's daughter and how she connected with Tuesday. The pace picked up during the final 20%, and the basis of the entire book was a shock. I'm not sure it's really believable.
DI Loss and DS Stone make quite a team. They seem more like equals than supervisor and subordinate. I sometimes wished that Loss had a more common name. It didn't feel natural to read "loss" as a proper name. Background on Loss and Stone was too brief. I would have liked to know more about them.
I enjoyed the book, but I didn't love it. Halfway through, I began to consider stopping. What kept me going was the need to find out what happened with DI Loss's daughter and how she connected with Tuesday. The pace picked up during the final 20%, and the basis of the entire book was a shock. I'm not sure it's really believable.
October 19, 2015
Trashy, violent, and brilliant.
Can't wait to read more.
Can't wait to read more.
December 29, 2015
It was as an undergraduate visiting friends in New York City & riding the subway as the train zipped past an abandoned station & I started fantasing what it would be like to live in one, paying no rent & invisible to surface dwellers. In Tuesday Falling the principal character has managed something like that in London & a lot more. The below-ground vaults & tunnels of metropolitan London have become a common feature in contemporary crime fiction. A. J. Waite used the sewers - in the 18th century they were real London rivers - as a setting in The Evil Beneath, & in Now You See Me & A Dark & Twisted Tide, Sharon Bolton displays her mastery of Victorian industrial archaelogy. She gives a five-star rating to Tuesday Falling & no one could be a better judge, because she is not only expert on the geography, but especially because Tuesday herself exemplifies perfectly what Bolton’s Lacey Flint might have become had she not been able to join the police & had instead been forced to continue her hidden life underground. Tuesday has not only found abandoned London Underground stations & tunnels a secure refuge, but the huge warren beneath the surface provides an intruder capable of dealing with locks access to blocks of luxury flats, department stores & museums, the last a fruitful source of antique & exotic weapons she loves to employ against the ungodly, particularly pimps, rapists, drug dealers, the pawns for the crime kingpin who controls them & whose lair Tuesday infiltrates.
That Tuesday favours museum pieces to inflict mayhem on contemporary malefactors is beautifully counterintuitive because she has mastered all the high-tech tools of advanced civilisation: CCTV, social media, WiFi, digital display & control, even a clever use of DNA, & utilises them to spy on the bad-hats & sow confusion amongst them. Tuesday accomplishes her role as both private avenger & public benefactor, particularly for rape victims, in the guise of a semi-anorexic goth girl, tho’ her stunts could push a Vin Diesel to the limit.
I expect Tuesday’s enormous public following in the story, as well as the fascination her character has for us readers of crime fiction, lies in our dissatisfaction with the failure of our society to maintain even minimal standards of civilised behaviour. I just read an account of a passenger in the Underground being beaten & severely injured whilst the other passengers ignored what was occurring. If you’ve followed the news from Rotherham & other places, you may begin to suspect that PC stands for Politically Correct, not Police Constable. Some of the coppers in Tuesday Falling are so bent that you might think PC really means Pretzel Contortionist!
As a work of fiction, Tuesday Falling belongs just on the edge of realistic but leaning towards the fantastic. So far as I know, all of the technical devices in the book are currently operating major urban information, communications, security & transport systems. But as a punter whose laptop keeps losing the WiFi @ the local coffee house, I had trouble imagining they would all work together so well when needed so that Tuesday could seize total control of a London Underground station with her ipad, particularly whilst simultaneously kick-boxing an elite hit-man despatched by a crime lord to take her out. As for the subterranean London geography - as Sharon Bolton gave this book five stars, I believe S. Williams’s every word.
In short - Tuesday Falling is an absolute stitch! Love it!
That Tuesday favours museum pieces to inflict mayhem on contemporary malefactors is beautifully counterintuitive because she has mastered all the high-tech tools of advanced civilisation: CCTV, social media, WiFi, digital display & control, even a clever use of DNA, & utilises them to spy on the bad-hats & sow confusion amongst them. Tuesday accomplishes her role as both private avenger & public benefactor, particularly for rape victims, in the guise of a semi-anorexic goth girl, tho’ her stunts could push a Vin Diesel to the limit.
I expect Tuesday’s enormous public following in the story, as well as the fascination her character has for us readers of crime fiction, lies in our dissatisfaction with the failure of our society to maintain even minimal standards of civilised behaviour. I just read an account of a passenger in the Underground being beaten & severely injured whilst the other passengers ignored what was occurring. If you’ve followed the news from Rotherham & other places, you may begin to suspect that PC stands for Politically Correct, not Police Constable. Some of the coppers in Tuesday Falling are so bent that you might think PC really means Pretzel Contortionist!
As a work of fiction, Tuesday Falling belongs just on the edge of realistic but leaning towards the fantastic. So far as I know, all of the technical devices in the book are currently operating major urban information, communications, security & transport systems. But as a punter whose laptop keeps losing the WiFi @ the local coffee house, I had trouble imagining they would all work together so well when needed so that Tuesday could seize total control of a London Underground station with her ipad, particularly whilst simultaneously kick-boxing an elite hit-man despatched by a crime lord to take her out. As for the subterranean London geography - as Sharon Bolton gave this book five stars, I believe S. Williams’s every word.
In short - Tuesday Falling is an absolute stitch! Love it!
May 27, 2015
Tuesday Falling is a marvel of a read, crime fiction with a techno twist, a heroine that puts Lisbeth Salandar to shame and a piece of storytelling genius that will have you up on your feet cheering as if you were at a rock concert.
It is a revenge thriller. It is also book full of social commentary done in a way that challenges the mind. There are thrills and spills, dark violence (hence I imagine why it is marketed as an adult book despite the young adult main protagonist) but also an awful lot of humour to offset those things both ironic and simply laugh out loud hilarious.
"Tuesday" is quite simply brilliant. She has power - and I don't mean just the power she wields in the story but the power to engage the reader in an ongoing moral argument. When the law can't or won't stop the bad guys just what IS a girl supposed to do? And these guys are bad. I'd rather have dinner with Hannibal Lector than be within 100 miles of any one of them. She also has another kind of power - a real sense that redemption is possible no matter what you go through..
I don't want to give any plot details away really - not more than I have to - but suffice to say from the very first pages (that scene on the Tube is one of the best openers I have seen in a novel for years) the whole thing is completely gripping and does not let up at all. Not once. I laughed, cried, cheered and held my breath at different times during the story, a book that causes a true adrenalin rush. It is also completely authentic, much as we would like to deny it, the world that Tuesday has been harmed by is all too real. This book will make you think and it SHOULD make you think - how the most vulnerable in our society are viewed and treated is one of the biggest issues we face today. In "Tuesday Falling" the author manages to say a lot about it whilst entertaining you utterly and never once falling into the trap of preaching about it. It is simply THERE ingrained into the DNA of the drama unfolding.
It may be a thriller (gosh it really is!) but the author manages to bring a deep emotional resonance to the narrative that is haunting and deeply moving. Not only through Tuesday who is oh so broken despite her power, but with the rest of the cast of characters including our police presence, brought to life by DI Loss. A man who has seen the darker side of life, who has suffered a tremendous tragedy, one that ties him to Tuesday in ways he does not yet understand. His "sidekick" Stone brings the light relief whilst also being a brilliantly intriguing character in her own right. Really, despite all the action, this novel is character driven to the extreme - a beautiful depth to every single one of them, across the board.
There is a different London to be found here as well - Tuesday haunts the tunnels underneath the place that we know, she lives in an entirely different and gorgeously depicted world that the author builds slowly but surely as we follow along with her tale. The historical aspects are stunning, the city that Tuesday inhabits is almost a character in its own right - a really fascinating backdrop for a fascinating novel.
I really must say a HUGE thank you to Kate Stephenson from Harper Collins Killer Reads for sneakily popping this one in the post to me - she knows me too well, I loved it with a passion and without Kate it would probably have passed me by.
Overall then I guess you could say I liked this one. Just a bit. Highly HIGHLY recommended.
Happy Reading Folks!
It is a revenge thriller. It is also book full of social commentary done in a way that challenges the mind. There are thrills and spills, dark violence (hence I imagine why it is marketed as an adult book despite the young adult main protagonist) but also an awful lot of humour to offset those things both ironic and simply laugh out loud hilarious.
"Tuesday" is quite simply brilliant. She has power - and I don't mean just the power she wields in the story but the power to engage the reader in an ongoing moral argument. When the law can't or won't stop the bad guys just what IS a girl supposed to do? And these guys are bad. I'd rather have dinner with Hannibal Lector than be within 100 miles of any one of them. She also has another kind of power - a real sense that redemption is possible no matter what you go through..
I don't want to give any plot details away really - not more than I have to - but suffice to say from the very first pages (that scene on the Tube is one of the best openers I have seen in a novel for years) the whole thing is completely gripping and does not let up at all. Not once. I laughed, cried, cheered and held my breath at different times during the story, a book that causes a true adrenalin rush. It is also completely authentic, much as we would like to deny it, the world that Tuesday has been harmed by is all too real. This book will make you think and it SHOULD make you think - how the most vulnerable in our society are viewed and treated is one of the biggest issues we face today. In "Tuesday Falling" the author manages to say a lot about it whilst entertaining you utterly and never once falling into the trap of preaching about it. It is simply THERE ingrained into the DNA of the drama unfolding.
It may be a thriller (gosh it really is!) but the author manages to bring a deep emotional resonance to the narrative that is haunting and deeply moving. Not only through Tuesday who is oh so broken despite her power, but with the rest of the cast of characters including our police presence, brought to life by DI Loss. A man who has seen the darker side of life, who has suffered a tremendous tragedy, one that ties him to Tuesday in ways he does not yet understand. His "sidekick" Stone brings the light relief whilst also being a brilliantly intriguing character in her own right. Really, despite all the action, this novel is character driven to the extreme - a beautiful depth to every single one of them, across the board.
There is a different London to be found here as well - Tuesday haunts the tunnels underneath the place that we know, she lives in an entirely different and gorgeously depicted world that the author builds slowly but surely as we follow along with her tale. The historical aspects are stunning, the city that Tuesday inhabits is almost a character in its own right - a really fascinating backdrop for a fascinating novel.
I really must say a HUGE thank you to Kate Stephenson from Harper Collins Killer Reads for sneakily popping this one in the post to me - she knows me too well, I loved it with a passion and without Kate it would probably have passed me by.
Overall then I guess you could say I liked this one. Just a bit. Highly HIGHLY recommended.
Happy Reading Folks!
February 25, 2016
Loved this story and couldn't put it down.
Apparently if we "Rave, review and recruit" we will hear more from Tuesday, well I am raving!!! :)
Apparently if we "Rave, review and recruit" we will hear more from Tuesday, well I am raving!!! :)
February 7, 2016
Well Holy-Bloody-Hell!! What a book! I had come across this book on various book clubs/groups I am a member of and decided to give it a go. At 99p (and still is by the way) there would be nothing lost if I did not actually like it. So glad I took a chance and bagged this beauty as I tell you what…it is a definite must read!
Tuesday is not your typical protagonist. She is an anti hero who you find yourself immediately drawn to. A broken soul with a kick-ass drive for retribution, you cannot help but cheer her on! She stands up for the lost, vulnerable victims –like Lilly-Rose– and dishes out her own form of justice where the system has failed. In my mind, I pictured her as a cross between Harley Quinn (look her up if you are not a comic book fan lol) and Alice from Resident Evil. Her weapons of choice are not conventional either and the author has a page where you can check them out! Click here for Tuesday’s Weapons
A few of the other characters who struck a chord with me, were DS Loss and DS Stone. They are tasked with solving the murders and bringing Tuesday in. You can tell, however, they too are torn between helping Tuesday and stopping her rampage. Not the best predicament for coppers to find themselves in!
The chapters are short and easy to read. Each one packed with a twist or revelation. The text is not overtly descriptive either…you get exactly what you need to visualise the story in your mind. Love that!
The gang members within this story are easily despised…cocky, trumped up lowlifes — those who make the law abiding members of society angry and fearful at the same time. But when Tuesday unleashes her wrath…well I may have punched the air and screamed “Hell Yeah” a few times! Do I condone vigilantism? Nope…but I won’t lie..I did smirk/grin a few times when Tuesday was meting out her punishments!
And towards the end…well there was a bit of an emotional roller-coaster going on..no spoilers…but I did have a lump in my throat! So if you want a kick-ass, in-your-face read which will literally grab you by the shoulders and scream in your face…YOU NEED TO READ THIS BOOK!
I highly recommend you grab yourself a copy of this book as you will not be disappointed! And S. Williams…I cannot wait to interview you for my blog!! One of my favourite reads of 2016!
Tuesday is not your typical protagonist. She is an anti hero who you find yourself immediately drawn to. A broken soul with a kick-ass drive for retribution, you cannot help but cheer her on! She stands up for the lost, vulnerable victims –like Lilly-Rose– and dishes out her own form of justice where the system has failed. In my mind, I pictured her as a cross between Harley Quinn (look her up if you are not a comic book fan lol) and Alice from Resident Evil. Her weapons of choice are not conventional either and the author has a page where you can check them out! Click here for Tuesday’s Weapons
A few of the other characters who struck a chord with me, were DS Loss and DS Stone. They are tasked with solving the murders and bringing Tuesday in. You can tell, however, they too are torn between helping Tuesday and stopping her rampage. Not the best predicament for coppers to find themselves in!
The chapters are short and easy to read. Each one packed with a twist or revelation. The text is not overtly descriptive either…you get exactly what you need to visualise the story in your mind. Love that!
The gang members within this story are easily despised…cocky, trumped up lowlifes — those who make the law abiding members of society angry and fearful at the same time. But when Tuesday unleashes her wrath…well I may have punched the air and screamed “Hell Yeah” a few times! Do I condone vigilantism? Nope…but I won’t lie..I did smirk/grin a few times when Tuesday was meting out her punishments!
And towards the end…well there was a bit of an emotional roller-coaster going on..no spoilers…but I did have a lump in my throat! So if you want a kick-ass, in-your-face read which will literally grab you by the shoulders and scream in your face…YOU NEED TO READ THIS BOOK!
I highly recommend you grab yourself a copy of this book as you will not be disappointed! And S. Williams…I cannot wait to interview you for my blog!! One of my favourite reads of 2016!
November 28, 2018
At first, before the fun started to wear a bit thin, this was fun - a genuine page-turner, with Tuesday as the younger even tougher even thinner even smarter sister of Lisbeth Salander, the famous dragon tattoo cyberpunk supersleuth. And as if to draw attention to this central unoriginality, the blurb on the back has the temerity to blare YOU’VE NEVER MET ANYONE LIKE TUESDAY in big letters. Readers will be yelling Oh yes we have, LISBETH SALANDER you lying blurber.
But I do give S. Williams credit for creating a detailed and convincing world for miniLisbeth aka Tuesday to inhabit : underground London. No, not the famous subway train network - the complex chaos of what’s underneath that. Hundreds of tunnels that were built for one purpose and abandoned; thousands of doors leading to stairs no one uses anymore; ghost stations. And nobody really knowing the whole picture. Except our 17 year old wunderkind Tuesday.
She has twice the cyber skills of the person you thought was the world’s greatest hacker. She could break into your personal cyberworld and clone your tablet (I think that’s the right phrase) before she’s fully awake. No one is safe. We are all her puppets. So, a pretty good hero. Naturally, she’s only doing this life-underground freak because she’s A HIGHLY DAMAGED INDIVIDUAL.
Then after she starts killing the rapists in come the cops. We follow two of them. Mr Plod and Ms Plod. And my goodness, they really do plod, with trying meant-to-be-heavy-handed-police-humour in every line of dialogue.
“What the hell was that, anyway?” Loss is referring to the music that was playing in the lift.
“Fuck knows. ‘Price Tag’? ‘Anarchy in the UK’? Everything sounds the same on panpipes.”
That kind of thing. And naturally, this Detective Inspector Loss is also A HIGHLY DAMAGED INDIVIDUAL because all the main coppers in tough crime novels are.
Then the villains – the ones who get speaking parts. The ones who think they run the “gangsterscape” (not my word!) that is London. You’ve seen these guys in every lock stock & smoking barrel since Bob Hoskins in The Long Good Friday.
Caleb’s eyes have gone from urbane businessman to lock-down psycho ward.
All these tough tough tales live in a world sealed off from normality and inevitably find themselves referring to each other – “it’s all a bit Resident Evil” or “it’s a Mission Impossible thing” they say.
As for the plot, it goes in exactly the way all these crime thrillers go. And before that. Remember in every Robin Hood film Robin has to have a fight with the Sheriff of Nottingham. There are thirty merry men a-tussling with fifty unmerry sheriff stooges and in all this melee it could be that one random merry man stabs the Sheriff through the left ventricle, but that will never happen because it is a law of the universe that the big hero and the big villain have to go head to head. So, same goes for Tuesday.
Some of the stuff in here might be ripped from today’s headlines but a lot of it is as traditional as a Grimm’s Fairy Tale (and would it be rude for me to say just as believable).
But all in all, pretty sprightly. 2.5 stars.
But I do give S. Williams credit for creating a detailed and convincing world for miniLisbeth aka Tuesday to inhabit : underground London. No, not the famous subway train network - the complex chaos of what’s underneath that. Hundreds of tunnels that were built for one purpose and abandoned; thousands of doors leading to stairs no one uses anymore; ghost stations. And nobody really knowing the whole picture. Except our 17 year old wunderkind Tuesday.
She has twice the cyber skills of the person you thought was the world’s greatest hacker. She could break into your personal cyberworld and clone your tablet (I think that’s the right phrase) before she’s fully awake. No one is safe. We are all her puppets. So, a pretty good hero. Naturally, she’s only doing this life-underground freak because she’s A HIGHLY DAMAGED INDIVIDUAL.
Then after she starts killing the rapists in come the cops. We follow two of them. Mr Plod and Ms Plod. And my goodness, they really do plod, with trying meant-to-be-heavy-handed-police-humour in every line of dialogue.
“What the hell was that, anyway?” Loss is referring to the music that was playing in the lift.
“Fuck knows. ‘Price Tag’? ‘Anarchy in the UK’? Everything sounds the same on panpipes.”
That kind of thing. And naturally, this Detective Inspector Loss is also A HIGHLY DAMAGED INDIVIDUAL because all the main coppers in tough crime novels are.
Then the villains – the ones who get speaking parts. The ones who think they run the “gangsterscape” (not my word!) that is London. You’ve seen these guys in every lock stock & smoking barrel since Bob Hoskins in The Long Good Friday.
Caleb’s eyes have gone from urbane businessman to lock-down psycho ward.
All these tough tough tales live in a world sealed off from normality and inevitably find themselves referring to each other – “it’s all a bit Resident Evil” or “it’s a Mission Impossible thing” they say.
As for the plot, it goes in exactly the way all these crime thrillers go. And before that. Remember in every Robin Hood film Robin has to have a fight with the Sheriff of Nottingham. There are thirty merry men a-tussling with fifty unmerry sheriff stooges and in all this melee it could be that one random merry man stabs the Sheriff through the left ventricle, but that will never happen because it is a law of the universe that the big hero and the big villain have to go head to head. So, same goes for Tuesday.
Some of the stuff in here might be ripped from today’s headlines but a lot of it is as traditional as a Grimm’s Fairy Tale (and would it be rude for me to say just as believable).
But all in all, pretty sprightly. 2.5 stars.
July 8, 2018
Tuesday is 17 years old and she lives below the streets in tunnels around London. Tuesday has attitude by the shed load and this thriller sees her deal with the bad guys in her quest to right some wrongs and to help others.
I really, really enjoyed this novel. I found it very engaging and it was great to enter another world. Woven into this story was the concept of the possibility of a society living underground in London whom the ordinary population living above the surface are blissfully unaware. The reader then enters another world where the usual rules of our society no longer apply. But Tuesday regularly comes above the surface and boy, does she kick some arse! There is no messing with Tuesday, she clearly has a wonderful skill set and can get the job done. Tuesday Falling is not a sweet, sugary, girly, cup cakes and perfume novel, this girl has attitude. I found it an outstanding read as I could escape into another world, rather than more of the same.
Chasing after Tuesday to keep her actions within the law, are DCI Loss and DI Stone. As DI Stone says “What we have here is some whacked-out ninja super emo, roaming the streets, killing bad guys, and fucking with our heads.” There is some dark humour spread around this novel too, for example poking fun at smartphone users.
Characterization is spot on, not only with Tuesday but also with DCI Loss, DI Stone and Five. I found Tuesday Falling to be a thrilling story and a pleasure to read. It was very entertaining and fun to read. It was so refreshingly different to other British crime thrillers. The writing style was very adult and this whole book gave me such a buzz. Tuesday Falling is a debut novel but the writing quality is top of the class. The plot is very good indeed and I liked the ending. Tuesday Falling is one of my best reads this year and gets the top score of 5 stars from me.
I really, really enjoyed this novel. I found it very engaging and it was great to enter another world. Woven into this story was the concept of the possibility of a society living underground in London whom the ordinary population living above the surface are blissfully unaware. The reader then enters another world where the usual rules of our society no longer apply. But Tuesday regularly comes above the surface and boy, does she kick some arse! There is no messing with Tuesday, she clearly has a wonderful skill set and can get the job done. Tuesday Falling is not a sweet, sugary, girly, cup cakes and perfume novel, this girl has attitude. I found it an outstanding read as I could escape into another world, rather than more of the same.
Chasing after Tuesday to keep her actions within the law, are DCI Loss and DI Stone. As DI Stone says “What we have here is some whacked-out ninja super emo, roaming the streets, killing bad guys, and fucking with our heads.” There is some dark humour spread around this novel too, for example poking fun at smartphone users.
Characterization is spot on, not only with Tuesday but also with DCI Loss, DI Stone and Five. I found Tuesday Falling to be a thrilling story and a pleasure to read. It was very entertaining and fun to read. It was so refreshingly different to other British crime thrillers. The writing style was very adult and this whole book gave me such a buzz. Tuesday Falling is a debut novel but the writing quality is top of the class. The plot is very good indeed and I liked the ending. Tuesday Falling is one of my best reads this year and gets the top score of 5 stars from me.
February 26, 2016
Předem varuji, že toto není recenze, ta teprve přijde a nahradí tento text.
Po dočtení mám jasno. Dívka, která si říkala Tuesday má všechny předpoklady k tomu stát se obrovským bestsellerem. Žánrově se jedná o čistý thriller, byť zde existuje policejní (procedurální) složka příběhu. Hlavní hrdinka vám bude připomínat Lisbeth Salanderovou, a ty dvě mají spolu tolik společného, že mi nikdo nevymluví, že se S. Williams inspiroval u slavného švédského kolegy.
Obě žijí stranou od lidí (Tuesday, pravda, hluboko pod povrchem Londýna).
Obě jsou expertky na počítače.
Obě mají temnou, drásavou minulost.
Obě se chtějí pomstít.
Jsou tu sice jemné nuance - rozdíly, ale celkově můžeme říct, že Tuesday je Lisbeth z londýnského metra. Byl bych ale nerad, aby to bylo vnímané negativně. Díky této postavě se autorovi totiž povedlo vykreslit příběh, který mě prostě bavil. A dost.
V kostce se dá říct tolik (abych se vyhnul spoilerům), že tam, kde ruka zákona nečiní, musí činit ruka spravedlnosti. A to je myslím motto celé knihy. Ten příběh je vykreslený velmi zručně a dlouho ho z hlavy nedostanu.
S. Williams má skvělý dar vyprávět a zaujmout čtenáře. Pravda, trošku si pomáhá krátkými kapitolami (což je osvědčený trik), ale i v těch delších je vidět, že dokáže čtenáře udržet v příběhu. Jeho styl je velmi přirozený. Čte se to jaksi samo, těch více než třista stránek vám uteče dřív, než přijede první metro.
Dívka, která si říkala Tuesday je poctivý thriller z prostředí, které mě velmi bavilo poznávat. Nevím, co je na tom pravdy (a doufám, že hodně!), ale až příště pojedu do Londýna a budu v metru, pořádně si to tam prohlédnu. Ta kniha je sugestivní a skvělá.
Po dočtení mám jasno. Dívka, která si říkala Tuesday má všechny předpoklady k tomu stát se obrovským bestsellerem. Žánrově se jedná o čistý thriller, byť zde existuje policejní (procedurální) složka příběhu. Hlavní hrdinka vám bude připomínat Lisbeth Salanderovou, a ty dvě mají spolu tolik společného, že mi nikdo nevymluví, že se S. Williams inspiroval u slavného švédského kolegy.
Obě žijí stranou od lidí (Tuesday, pravda, hluboko pod povrchem Londýna).
Obě jsou expertky na počítače.
Obě mají temnou, drásavou minulost.
Obě se chtějí pomstít.
Jsou tu sice jemné nuance - rozdíly, ale celkově můžeme říct, že Tuesday je Lisbeth z londýnského metra. Byl bych ale nerad, aby to bylo vnímané negativně. Díky této postavě se autorovi totiž povedlo vykreslit příběh, který mě prostě bavil. A dost.
V kostce se dá říct tolik (abych se vyhnul spoilerům), že tam, kde ruka zákona nečiní, musí činit ruka spravedlnosti. A to je myslím motto celé knihy. Ten příběh je vykreslený velmi zručně a dlouho ho z hlavy nedostanu.
S. Williams má skvělý dar vyprávět a zaujmout čtenáře. Pravda, trošku si pomáhá krátkými kapitolami (což je osvědčený trik), ale i v těch delších je vidět, že dokáže čtenáře udržet v příběhu. Jeho styl je velmi přirozený. Čte se to jaksi samo, těch více než třista stránek vám uteče dřív, než přijede první metro.
Dívka, která si říkala Tuesday je poctivý thriller z prostředí, které mě velmi bavilo poznávat. Nevím, co je na tom pravdy (a doufám, že hodně!), ale až příště pojedu do Londýna a budu v metru, pořádně si to tam prohlédnu. Ta kniha je sugestivní a skvělá.
February 19, 2016
This book grabs hold of you on the first page and never lets go. Seventeen year old Tuesday has a plan. A plan that's been three years in the making, and one that as a reader you hope she can pull off.
Tuesday looks like a goth, someone who the gangs think will be easy prey. How wrong they are. She shows them that true strength comes from wisdom, planning and resourcefulness. Not snorting/injecting drugs or raping girls for fun. She shows these gangs that actions have consequences and that punishments need to fit the crime.
I liked the structure of this book. The short chapters kept the plot moving at speed and I also liked how some chapters were Tuesday's POV. I loved her sarcastic wit and found myself agreeing with her opinions of the low-lives she hunted. The information she shares about London, the underground and homelessness were also very interesting.
There is a lot of swearing and detailed descriptions of violence in this book. Considering the events in the story I thought the swearing came across as a natural response. The violence was needed so that Tuesday could explain how and why she was doing what she was doing. I was on Tuesday's 'side' throughout the book and I hope there is more to come from her.
This is one of the best suspense/thrillers I've read and one of my top reads of 2016. An outstanding read.
Tuesday looks like a goth, someone who the gangs think will be easy prey. How wrong they are. She shows them that true strength comes from wisdom, planning and resourcefulness. Not snorting/injecting drugs or raping girls for fun. She shows these gangs that actions have consequences and that punishments need to fit the crime.
I liked the structure of this book. The short chapters kept the plot moving at speed and I also liked how some chapters were Tuesday's POV. I loved her sarcastic wit and found myself agreeing with her opinions of the low-lives she hunted. The information she shares about London, the underground and homelessness were also very interesting.
There is a lot of swearing and detailed descriptions of violence in this book. Considering the events in the story I thought the swearing came across as a natural response. The violence was needed so that Tuesday could explain how and why she was doing what she was doing. I was on Tuesday's 'side' throughout the book and I hope there is more to come from her.
This is one of the best suspense/thrillers I've read and one of my top reads of 2016. An outstanding read.
August 14, 2015
Fresh, unique and exciting would be just three of the words I would use to describe this wholly original debut crime thriller. Set underground, over-ground (not Womble-ing free) in London, this thriller combines the technological savvy age and cut and thrust of the teeming life of the metropolis, whilst bringing to the reader’s attention the historical underbelly of this great city. I adored the delicious and surprising detail of the life below the city streets, that Peter Ackroyd, would be envious of, and the interesting and archaic weapons that Tuesday uses to accomplish her mission. The characterisation was also absolutely top-notch with Tuesday revealing herself as a glorious amalgamation of Lisbeth Salander and Katniss Everdene, with her outward appearance of strength undercut by a heart-rending sense of frailty. Likewise, D.I. Loss and his female police partner, D. S. Stone made for a terrific partnership with his damaged and world weary persona, working in absolute balance with her streetwise nouse and natural humour. The story was clever, full of tricks and totally engrossing. Loved it. Loved it. Loved it.
January 1, 2016
Who is Tuesday? Why is she doing this? The two questions that hit me after the first chapter. As I went further into the book, I found out more about Tuesday and how and why she does what she does. Slowly the police trying to locate her are finding out too.
It's not just a story about a vigilante extraordinaire (I saw a bit of Daredevil in her) but it's an brief education about hidden London which was enlightening!
The book is addictive, I just wanted to keep reading to find out what happens next!!! Explosive ending too! Can't wait to read more by the author!
Thank you to Netgalley and HarperCollins for this advanced copy.
It's not just a story about a vigilante extraordinaire (I saw a bit of Daredevil in her) but it's an brief education about hidden London which was enlightening!
The book is addictive, I just wanted to keep reading to find out what happens next!!! Explosive ending too! Can't wait to read more by the author!
Thank you to Netgalley and HarperCollins for this advanced copy.
January 27, 2016
Tuesday is the chosen name for a seventeen year old girl who has been living in the disused underground tunnels of London for three years. All that time she's been plotting revenge. It'll spoil the story if I tell you why, but it's not simply personal vengeance she's after. From her warren of tunnels, Tuesday systematically kills or maims the members of gangs who exploit and rape youngsters. She's hot stuff with the technology, too. Much of her life is run on the dark web. She is connected, in a manner he has yet to discover, to one of the team of detectives on her case.
This is one of the most thrilling, fast-action stories I've read for some time. It takes a while to unravel the connections and to discover why this young woman lives a life hell-bent on killing. When we find what she's suffered at the hands of her ultimate targets, it's easy to sympathise. The only reservation I have is the name of the 'burned-out detective' with a murdered daughter. DI Loss - it's just too much. I even looked it up in my local phone book and it's not listed as a surname. Spoils it a bit. However, having vented my little peeve, I'm giving this a well-deserved five stars. It’s bursting with action, danger and thrills. It's a cracking good read.
This is one of the most thrilling, fast-action stories I've read for some time. It takes a while to unravel the connections and to discover why this young woman lives a life hell-bent on killing. When we find what she's suffered at the hands of her ultimate targets, it's easy to sympathise. The only reservation I have is the name of the 'burned-out detective' with a murdered daughter. DI Loss - it's just too much. I even looked it up in my local phone book and it's not listed as a surname. Spoils it a bit. However, having vented my little peeve, I'm giving this a well-deserved five stars. It’s bursting with action, danger and thrills. It's a cracking good read.
May 20, 2016
I enjoyed much about this book. Mainly the main character and her will of vigilanteism. Tuesday, you go girl! The lingo took a moment to catch me at first and I found myself rereading at times when I'd come back to the book. I really thought going into it that it was going to be a five star for me as people I tend to agree with in ratings and interests rated it very high. However, there was just something missing for me personally, though I can't quite put my finger on it.
I definitely would recommend this book to others though and felt that it was a strong debut novel.
Upping this to four stars. It's sat with me awhile the way o rated it. I like it enough to remember it and something missing doesn't quite take away a full star and a half.
I definitely would recommend this book to others though and felt that it was a strong debut novel.
Upping this to four stars. It's sat with me awhile the way o rated it. I like it enough to remember it and something missing doesn't quite take away a full star and a half.
May 2, 2015
I read a lot of books in this job, probably too many - there came a point about ten years ago when I realised how jaded I was becoming, and how few books I would have read to the end if I didn’t have to.
and then once in a while, something comes along that is genuinely fresh and sparky and alive and utterly, breathtakingly compelling and I find I’ve run out of adjectives…
and have to resort to tautologies and repetitions
This is really, really good. Superbly good. Amazingly good. I started reading it yesterday evening and stayed up way beyond bedtime to read it. I *loved* Tuesday. And Loss. And Strong (and so glad she was one of us - not your ‘us’ perhaps, but my, ‘us’, and done tactfully and intelligently by a man when so many lesbian women written by men are paper-thin cyphers)
in TUESDAY FALLING, S Williams has achieved that miracle of modern publishing - a genuinely fresh, inspiring, enlivening voice, wrapped around a genuinely engaging, utterly compelling new character. Tuesday is the girl we’d all like to be but have neither the nerve, nor the competence. She’s the ultimate avenging angel and we cheer her on with every bloody act of violence. Loss and Strong are the perfect back-up team and we can trust them not to do anything stupidly ‘just’ at the end while the underlying narrative is so plausible, it seems likely we’ll read it in tomorrow’s papers. Inevitably there will be comparisons with Lisbet Salander but Tuesday is more real, more compelling, more wounded and more savage - while the social commentary cuts closer to the bone and is made with a lighter touch.
Altogether, this is a genuine delight, a fresh new voice for a jaded world. Read it. And face the world differently.
and then once in a while, something comes along that is genuinely fresh and sparky and alive and utterly, breathtakingly compelling and I find I’ve run out of adjectives…
and have to resort to tautologies and repetitions
This is really, really good. Superbly good. Amazingly good. I started reading it yesterday evening and stayed up way beyond bedtime to read it. I *loved* Tuesday. And Loss. And Strong (and so glad she was one of us - not your ‘us’ perhaps, but my, ‘us’, and done tactfully and intelligently by a man when so many lesbian women written by men are paper-thin cyphers)
in TUESDAY FALLING, S Williams has achieved that miracle of modern publishing - a genuinely fresh, inspiring, enlivening voice, wrapped around a genuinely engaging, utterly compelling new character. Tuesday is the girl we’d all like to be but have neither the nerve, nor the competence. She’s the ultimate avenging angel and we cheer her on with every bloody act of violence. Loss and Strong are the perfect back-up team and we can trust them not to do anything stupidly ‘just’ at the end while the underlying narrative is so plausible, it seems likely we’ll read it in tomorrow’s papers. Inevitably there will be comparisons with Lisbet Salander but Tuesday is more real, more compelling, more wounded and more savage - while the social commentary cuts closer to the bone and is made with a lighter touch.
Altogether, this is a genuine delight, a fresh new voice for a jaded world. Read it. And face the world differently.
February 23, 2016
Brutal yet strangely endearing - Tuesday is a teenage girl hell bent on revenge on the drug dealers, rapists and gangs of London. Ensconced in the forgotten tunnels of the Underground, Tuesday has been plotting her revenge. An inventive killer and a technical genius, no-one gets in her way.
DI Loss is investigating this "ghost" girl whilst dealing with his own personal tragedy. What is his link to Tuesday?
A fantastic debut novel and I sincerely hope there will be more!!
DI Loss is investigating this "ghost" girl whilst dealing with his own personal tragedy. What is his link to Tuesday?
A fantastic debut novel and I sincerely hope there will be more!!
July 15, 2015
Love this book,love how she keeps the cops on there toes and her wit n humour,sad to find out what she is going through and her reasons for doing what shes does.I won this book via first reads goodreads.
February 22, 2016
A really great action packed read! Full review on www.bibliophilebookclub.com
April 27, 2015
Publication Date: 16th April 2015
Publisher: Killer Reads
ISBN: 978-0008132750
Source: Netgalley
Rating: 5/5
Synopsis:
A relentless thriller that will grip you by the throat. Perfect for fans of SILENT SCREAM, by Angela Marsons, and THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO.
You’ve never met anyone like Tuesday. She has suffered extreme cruelty at the hands of men, and so has taken it upon herself to seek vengeance. She wants to protect and help others like her, to ease their suffering. A force to be reckoned with, she lives beneath the streets of London in the hidden network of forgotten tunnels that honeycomb the city – and this is her preferred hunting ground.
When Tuesday is connected to a series of brutal attacks on gang members, DI Loss takes on the investigation. A burned-out detective still suffering the devastating effects of the unsolved murder of his daughter three years earlier, the case starts to hit close to home. Because soon Loss will discover that Tuesday could hold the key to uncovering the truth about what happened to his daughter…
Review:
Thanks to S. Williams, Killer reads and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of Tuesday Falling, in return for an honest review.
When I saw a tweet about this book, I couldn't resist requesting it on NetGalley and crossing my fingers that I'd be approved. I felt there was something special about this book, so was very pleased to receive a review copy.
Tuesday Falling is basically a book about seeking vengeance. The mysterious Tuesday fights back against the sadistic scum that attack women and children all over the city and will not rest until she has her revenge.
Tuesday is a fantastically complex character who you can't help but root for. She's feisty and fearsome, bringing to mind the Black Canary (any Arrow fans out there?) and the girl from Kick-Ass, two fabulous female superheroes. But Tuesday is more than a superhero.
This book contains a fair amount of violence, as you'd expect, and the odd bit of swearing, but both work in its favour. Tuesday Falling doesn't really fall into just one genre, it has elements of Young Adult, crime, thriller, action and adventure. I think readers of all these genres would enjoy this book.
Debut author S. Williams has written an outstanding novel that grabbed my attention from the outset. I was engrossed and couldn't put it down until I reached the conclusion...and what an ending. Brilliant!
I cannot recommend this book highly enough and will be looking out for the next o offering from S. Williams.
Publisher: Killer Reads
ISBN: 978-0008132750
Source: Netgalley
Rating: 5/5
Synopsis:
A relentless thriller that will grip you by the throat. Perfect for fans of SILENT SCREAM, by Angela Marsons, and THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO.
You’ve never met anyone like Tuesday. She has suffered extreme cruelty at the hands of men, and so has taken it upon herself to seek vengeance. She wants to protect and help others like her, to ease their suffering. A force to be reckoned with, she lives beneath the streets of London in the hidden network of forgotten tunnels that honeycomb the city – and this is her preferred hunting ground.
When Tuesday is connected to a series of brutal attacks on gang members, DI Loss takes on the investigation. A burned-out detective still suffering the devastating effects of the unsolved murder of his daughter three years earlier, the case starts to hit close to home. Because soon Loss will discover that Tuesday could hold the key to uncovering the truth about what happened to his daughter…
Review:
Thanks to S. Williams, Killer reads and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of Tuesday Falling, in return for an honest review.
When I saw a tweet about this book, I couldn't resist requesting it on NetGalley and crossing my fingers that I'd be approved. I felt there was something special about this book, so was very pleased to receive a review copy.
Tuesday Falling is basically a book about seeking vengeance. The mysterious Tuesday fights back against the sadistic scum that attack women and children all over the city and will not rest until she has her revenge.
Tuesday is a fantastically complex character who you can't help but root for. She's feisty and fearsome, bringing to mind the Black Canary (any Arrow fans out there?) and the girl from Kick-Ass, two fabulous female superheroes. But Tuesday is more than a superhero.
This book contains a fair amount of violence, as you'd expect, and the odd bit of swearing, but both work in its favour. Tuesday Falling doesn't really fall into just one genre, it has elements of Young Adult, crime, thriller, action and adventure. I think readers of all these genres would enjoy this book.
Debut author S. Williams has written an outstanding novel that grabbed my attention from the outset. I was engrossed and couldn't put it down until I reached the conclusion...and what an ending. Brilliant!
I cannot recommend this book highly enough and will be looking out for the next o offering from S. Williams.
April 15, 2015
This is the authors debut novel and I've got to say after reading Tuesday Falling I am looking forward to reading more by this author.
The story to start with felt more like a book that a young adult audience would like but as the book went on I think young adults and adults a like will really enjoy it.
The storyline in itself is very intriguing as the question on everyone's lips including the reader is who exactly is Tuesday and why has she taken it upon herself to become some sort of vigilante and taken matters into her own hands. As the story unravels we get to find out more about her past and the shocking events that have made Tuesday into the person she is. In the book the author goes into great detail of London's underground which gives the readers a great insight into what it is like down there. I really liked the characters Tuesday and DCI Loss and was full of empathy for both of them.
I especially like how the book ended and I'm hoping that we will be seeing more of a couple of characters from this book.
Over all a really great debut novel with a storyline that will have you gripped from the beginning.
Many thanks to HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction/Blue Door and Netgalley for an Advanced Readers Copy of this book.
The story to start with felt more like a book that a young adult audience would like but as the book went on I think young adults and adults a like will really enjoy it.
The storyline in itself is very intriguing as the question on everyone's lips including the reader is who exactly is Tuesday and why has she taken it upon herself to become some sort of vigilante and taken matters into her own hands. As the story unravels we get to find out more about her past and the shocking events that have made Tuesday into the person she is. In the book the author goes into great detail of London's underground which gives the readers a great insight into what it is like down there. I really liked the characters Tuesday and DCI Loss and was full of empathy for both of them.
I especially like how the book ended and I'm hoping that we will be seeing more of a couple of characters from this book.
Over all a really great debut novel with a storyline that will have you gripped from the beginning.
Many thanks to HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction/Blue Door and Netgalley for an Advanced Readers Copy of this book.
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