Pig Island
a taut, tense and terrifying thriller from bestselling author Mo Hayder
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Fans of Stephen King, Stuart MacBride and Karin Slaughter will devour this warped and brutally bloodthirsty thriller from bestselling and prize-winning author Mo Hayder. Guaranteed to mess with your mind, you'll be on the edge of your seat from start to finish...
'Mo Hayder has a profound ability to shock and surprise her readers, and Pig Island surpasses anything she has written before. She's the bravest writer I know' -- Karin Slaughter
'The goriest thriller writer this side of the pond' -- Mirror
'No matter how much you might despise yourself for getting sucked into such places, she is brilliant at making you read on' -- Daily Telegraph
'Engrossing and a definite page turner' -- ***** Reader review
'Keeps you gripped' -- ***** Reader review
'Awesome writing' -- ***** Reader review
'Gripping from the start' -- ***** Reader review
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SEE EVIL
Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes. But what he sees when he visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish island forces him to question everything he thought he knew.
HEAR EVIL
Why have the islanders been accused of Satanism? What has happened to their leader? And why will no one discuss the strange creature seen wandering the lonely beaches of Pig Island?
READ EVIL
In PIG ISLAND, Mo Hayder dares you to face your fears head on and to look at what lurks beneath the surface of everyday normality. Because people are perfectly capable of doing unspeakable things to each other...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Hayder's profoundly creepy and creepily convincing thriller, hard-bitten journalist Joe Oakes arrives on the west coast of Scotland to visit a reclusive cult on remote Pig Island. Oakes hopes to investigate a supposed half-animal, half-human creature distantly glimpsed in a tourist's film and settle his long-held grudge against the cult's founder, charismatic crackpot Malachi Dove, who has long since withdrawn to his barricaded compound on Pig Island. In the ensuing mayhem, Oakes wins the confidence of Dove's mysterious daughter and learns the hard way that the investigative skills on which he prides himself are flimsy at best. Though gruesome enough to satisfy even the most hardcore horror fan, this rigorously imagined novel is also full of apt (if bleak) detail and graced with a perfect plot twist at story's end. Hayder (The Devil of Nanking) offers both a riveting story and a nuanced, distinctly modern look at secrecy and publicity, belief and skepticism, normal and taboo, (in)sight and blindness.
Customer Reviews
Disappointed with the ending
Yeah I am so mixed on this book
At one point I liked the plot be a bit lets just say unique
I was really disappointed by the ending without mentioning what happened
It was just disappointing saw it coming from midway through the book
I was hoping for a better ending and the last few pages came
And I started saying yep it's gonna be the bad ending I was dreading
Still worth a read but the ending was expected
Also I found at points the book tends to drift
For example this isn't from the book it's just an example
It will go like so and so wakes up the warm sun is shining down the blue skies
Are Clear a warm breeze
A page later so and so climbs out of bed
It kind of drags on at some points
The flicking back and fourth between characters also annoyed me
Seemed like the author was trying to stretch out the book
Kinda like she wrote it only had 150 pages and thought
Well I'll throw in a few extra chapters focussing on other characters
Just to stretch out the book to 300 or so pages
The characters were well
I struggled to feel any like towards them especially his wife
Don't know why but she irritated me the whole group of characters did
The only one I liked was Sovereign not sure why but I liked her
The rest just couldn't feel for them at all
Over all it wasn't horrible but disappointing
I like the book as I said at parts the story line was good
And I enjoyed the book at parts other parts dragged on
Yeah but to put it bluntly
Overall the ending crashed and burned