Elmet

I genuinely did not, based on the jacket blurb, expect to enjoy this book. What a fantastic surprise.

For me, this novel read like the first season of an amazing new HBO series - dark, with a sense of forboding because you know something bad is going to happen, but you just don't know quite when. A series of well-drawn characters makes you invest early and deeply in the outcome of the tale. And when the bomb explodes, you feel the shockwaves down to your very bones.

I did not want to put this one down. I am absolutely looking forward to this author's next work. Definitely recommended.