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V for Violet | Alison Rattle

2 posts | 3 read

Battersea, 1961. London is just beginning to enter the swinging sixties. The world is changing - but not for sixteen-year-old Violet. She was born at the exact moment Winston Churchill announced Victory in Europe - an auspicious start, but now she's just stuck in her family's fish and chip shop dreaming of greatness. And it doesn't look like fame and fortune are going to come calling anytime soon. Then she meets Beau. Beau's a rocker - a motorcycle boy who arrives in an explosion of passion and rebellion. He blows up Violet's grey little life, and she can't believe her luck. But things don't go her way for long. Joseph, her long-lost brother, comes home. Then young girls start going missing, and turning up murdered. And then Violet's best friend disappears too. Suddenly life is horrifyingly much more interesting. Violet can't believe its coincidence that Joseph turns up just as girls start getting murdered. He's weird, and she feels sure he's hiding something. He's got a secret, and Violet's got a dreadful feeling it might be the worst kind of secret of all . . .

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thebookdiviner

V for Violet | Alison Rattle

so-so

1. Don't read the blurb - it spoils too much of the story & really affected my enjoyment
2. I liked that I was reading about a character that wasn't very likeable - she's so angry & she reminded me of me at her age
3. All my feminist hackles are raised by the quite disgusting sexism & victim blaming in the book, but it felt more historically accurate by not shying away from it
4. The romance is a bit insta-lovey but it wasn't the focus of the book

thebookdiviner #bookreview 8y

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Missusb

V for Violet | Alison Rattle

pick

Violet's voice is steady and unwaveringly brave. The murder mystery is suspenseful and scary, and the 1960s setting is evocative and atmospheric. I quite liked this book, quite a lot.