Review for A Knife's Edge by Eliot Parker
A Knife's Edge by
Series: A Ronan McCullough Novel
Publication: Headline Books
Publication Date: Oct 12, 2018
Format: Pdf
Price: $0.99
Pages: 320
Amazon Link: Click Here
Rating on:
- Trigger Warnings & Disturbances: 7/10
- Erotic / Sexual content: Nil
- Gore & Dismemberment: 8/10
If you found yourself between a rock and a hard place, what would you do? If your loved ones were in immense danger and only you could save them, at a cost, would you?
After Ronan found his mutual friend Sarah Gilmore's body, violated beyond belief, inside a crash cab hatchback trunk following two other murders – it was the start for a chain of uncountable gruesome murders. As the Sergeant of the Charleston Police department, he had to work with his snappy senior to deal with this case. As Ronan dug further, it ended up becoming personal, affecting his immediate loved ones. But in the end, it wasn’t only about Sarah Gilmore: what would Ronan's next step be?
With an analytical personality and clairvoyance sharp as a knife, Ronan McCullough was the man of Eliot Parker's A Knife's Edge. With a diverse personality from being a responsible officer, a hushed-up lover, to a father-like figure, Ronan was a realistic character that rose from being suspended to a hero. As a stand-alone read, A Knife's Edge was A Ronan McCullough Novel, which consists of 56 chapters. Clocking in as a 320-pager, this series of unfortunate events unfolded itself in Charleston, West Virginia. As a read under the genres of the medical thriller, corporate fiction, and LGBTQ, Parker didn’t fail to satiate your thirst as a hard-boiled, detective noir.
Written at a slow but steady pace, you might encounter constant changes between the POV, which some might find difficult to focus on, yet it didn’t create any hindrances to the flow of this story. Parker's plot-driven read was quite extensive and explicitly descriptive, leaving less room for your imagination to wander out of track. As an LGBTQ read, Parker focused on the social stigma associated with gay people and stiffen sexual rights. He questioned and reasoned about people's trust issues and the limitations of trust. You might question the thickness of this plot as the narrative mystery was a question: it wasn’t difficult to guess the criminal. This wasn’t a read that would make your adrenaline accelerate at a fast rate, but there were genuinely shocking moments embedded.
Parker knew what he was doing when he stirred up situation after situation where Ronan started suspecting everything he knew so far. With the support of credible characters, your journey with Ronan would spark as you being a key eyewitness to his investigations. Filled with a closet full of characters, you might find it difficult to follow each character: hence, its highly recommendable to include a character introduction at the start. Characters were introduced gradually, yet some didn’t play significant roles leading them to be an unnecessary addition. The conclusion had a perfect spin-off to this story. There were grammatical and punctuation errors to a certain rate that required a proofread session.
A Knife's Edge had a sharp voice which screamed its doom-laden pronouncements that wasn't for a faint-hearted.
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