Advantages: Entertaining with a good twist to the end Disadvantages: None really
...their opinion were better and Hybrid was one of those so I took the plunge.
When I got the book I was a bit worried about the cover as if I had seen this on a bookshelf I would have assumed it was a horror story and left it well alone however the reviewer and the blurb on the back suggested something different so I switched all the lights on in the house (just incase) and started to read. It was only after I finished the book that I noticed it does ... ...the case I would say it is at the mild end of the horror spectrum.
The Plot
The plot evolves around one single character, a once famous writer Christopher Ward whose career is very much in decline. He leads a solitary life in a rather large house struggling with periods of writers block as he struggles to write his latest novel. Increasingly he seeks to find comfort in alcohol and the occasional sexual encounter with a prostitute other than that ...
atticusuk 01.05.2006
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Advantages: A nice read Disadvantages: None of note
...delight therefore when I discovered Hybrid lurking on the pages of Amazon.co.uk and the realisation that I had not actually read it. Hybrid is a very clever piece of writing from Hutson in that it contains a story within a story, I sometimes forgot I was reading about a struggling author so engrossing was the story about Sean Doyle and his Counter Terrorist work, I actually found myself caring far more for Doyle’s character than for that of Christopher ... ...taken up with the story within the story but then as the manuscript is finished it switches to the author and his struggles to find out how and why the story was being written. Hutson himself says in his acknowledgements that this was a tough book to write, and one can only imagine the skill needed to sew the two stories together so plausibly, hats off to Hutson for that.
“There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows ...
stuleg 19.10.2004
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