Book Review

Basic Details:

Book Title: Confronting The Hostile

Subtitle: (The Hostile #4)

Author: Joy Mutter

Genre: paranormal crime thriller

Part of a series? Yes

Order in series: 4

Best read after earlier books in series? Possibly, can be read on its own.

Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36000758-confronting-the-hostile

Overall score:

I scored this book 5/5

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️

Short Summary of the book:

This book tells the story two evil tiles. When they are in a human’s hands, they force him to do their bidding in a murder game. Their previous owners/victims escaped by jumping off a parking garage. John picked up one of the tiles dropped by one of the girls and now has to do its bidding. He looks for a solution to free himself of its grasp.

What I liked about the book:

I particularly liked how the detectives fought to come out as winners and how the previous victims tried to help too.

What I didn’t like about the book:

I loved the entire book.

My favourite bits in the book:

I loved where the book had an open ending. There is definitely an opening there for more books to follow.

My least favourite bits in the book:

I liked the entire book.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

I understand there are earlier books in this series and the author left an open route to more to follow.

What books could this be compared to and why?

This book had an interesting theory of inanimate objects being used as weapons in paranormal warfare.

Recommendation:

In summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:

Children No

Young Adult Maybe

Adult Yes

If you like Paranormal detectives this book may be the book for you.

I look forward to reading more books by this author.

Book Description by Author:

A retired Irish superintendent and his former colleague, a handsome DCI from Liverpool, attempt to rid themselves and the world of their lethal tile masters. Will they succeed in reclaiming their freedom, or will the bizarre killing games continue? Confronting The Hostile is the fourth book in The Hostile series of unusual paranormal crime thrillers.

About the Author:

Author of Random Bullets, 4 books in The Hostile series, Her demonic Angel, Living with Postcards, Potholes and Magic Carpets, The Mug Trilogy, and The Trouble With Liam.

Joy Mutter started writing books in 2007 but waited until 2015 to publish six of them on Amazon. Three more books followed in 2016. All thirteen books are available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle editions. Nine books also have audiobook versions on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes.

Joy was born in Jersey in the Channel Islands and lived there for 18 years. After gaining a Graphic Design Degree at Coventry University, she lived and worked in Kent as a professional graphic designer for 20 years. She moved from Kent to Oldham in 2012 and has been writing, designing, and publishing her books full-time ever since.

Her first 3 books are third-person autobiographies and form The Mug Trilogy. Books in this series are A Slice of the Seventies, The Lying Scotsman, and Straws. Potholes and Magic Carpets is a contemporary character-led novel. Living with Postcards is her first non-fiction book.

Random Bullets is a crime thriller with a paranormal twist. In early 2016, Joy was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 on the subject of disinheritance for the Analysis programme. Disinheritance is a main theme in Random Bullets. It also figures in her autobiographical Mug Trilogy.

Her demonic Angel was published in early 2016 in Kindle, paperback, and audiobook. It contains fourteen of Joy Mutter's short stories, written in various genres.

In 2016, Joy published an unusual paranormal crime thriller, called The Hostile, followed by book 2, Holiday for The Hostile. In 2017, she wrote and published The Hostile Game, Confronting The Hostile, and The Hostile Series Box Set, containing all four books in The Hostile series. Each book in The Hostile series is available as Kindle, paperback, and audiobook editions.

Her latest book was published in October 2018. It is a psychological crime thriller called The Trouble With Liam. She is currently writing the next books in this series of thrillers, called The Trouble With Russell and The Trouble With Trouble.