The Big Ugly edition by Jake Hinkson Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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Ellie Bennett is an ex-corrections officer who has just served a year inside Eastgate Penitentiary for assaulting a prisoner. She’s only been out for a day when she accepts a strange job offer from the head of a Christian political advocacy group. He wants her to track down a missing ex-con named Alexis. Although no one knows where Alexis has gone, it seems like everyone in Arkansas is looking for her—from a rich televangelist running for Congress to the governor’s dirty tricks man. When Bennett finds the troubled young woman, she has to decide whether to hand her over to the highest bidder or help her escape from the most powerful men in the state.
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“Keep an eye on Jake Hinkson. He's taking the notion of the sacred and the profane to an entirely new level in noir.”
—Lou Boxer, co-founder of NoirCon
“The Big Ugly is a jolt to complacency, a spur to the psyche -- a novel that starts simply enough, but expands and suddenly consumes the reader. Jake Hinkson is a master at creating, not characters, but people -- and then putting them through Hell.”
—Steve Weddle, author of Country Hardball
“Jake Hinkson is a thunderhead on the horizon of crime fiction, and you can take The Big Ugly as confirmation that this storm isn't going to blow over any time soon. Batten down the hatches, take shelter and prepare for nasty weather. My favorite kind.”
—Jedidiah Ayres, author of Peckerwood
The Big Ugly edition by Jake Hinkson Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
First, let me say I highly recommend this book. It you love crime books, you'll love it. If you love noir that gets a little creepy every once in a while, you'll love this book. If you just like good writing and a good story -- you'll love The Big Ugly. Also of note is that there is a tough tough touch female first person narrator protagonist who is a very cool character and that is unusual and fun. I'm pretty sure at this point I've read every piece of fiction that Hinkson has published and The Big Ugly is slightly different from his three other novels/novellas. Not exactly better or worse, just a little different. With Hell On Church Street, Posthumous Man, and Saint Homicide, part of the wonderful effect for the reader is that the plot, character and vibe of the books feels so new, so strikingly original and, as well, the desires of the characters are just so strong and the stakes if they failed so high and vividly set up that the pages just seem to burn to a crisp one by one. With The Big Ugly, while it is a wonderful, compelling story full of fascinating characters, the pace is more leisurely and measured, there is more space between plot points, more room for the reader to breath, sigh, relax and enjoy ones self. I loved it.Product details
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The Big Ugly edition by Jake Hinkson Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
Not as good as I expected, but it kept me reading. all the way to the end. Some nice surprises.
I have liked everything Jake has written..I burned through all of them in a couple weeks. Great way to spend a rainy,snowy weekend. Check him out you won't be sorry
Hinkson has quickly become a must read author for me. I get whatever he publishes pretty soon after publication and get to reading pretty quickly after. In his latest novel Hinkson crafts more of a classic hardboiled novel. The Big Ugly has a bit of a throwback feel to it and is enjoyable as hell from the jump and never lets up.
THE BIG UGLY is further proof that Jake Hinkson is an artist worth getting to know now more than ever. The protagonist of TBU, Ellie Bennett, has recently been freed from Eastgate Penitentiary, a women's prison where she was serving time assaulting a prisoner while being a CO there. Her trials and tribulations will take you on a turbo charged adventure from the Govenor's Office all the way to the gutter. Not for the weak of heart. Hinkson delivers. His books further illustrate why he is truly a master of the Noir/Hardboiled genre. You may be down and out, but faith or the will to live keeps you going. There is no retreat. There is no surrender. There is only forward movement even if it is downward!
This is the second book I have read by Jake Hinkson (the other being Hell On Church Street) and now I can definitely say Hinkson has earned himself a life long fan. One of my favorite things about reading is that moment when everything just clicks and the story comes together in a way you know your reading a good book. The Big Ugly is one of those books that the story pulls you in immediately and it only takes about 10 pages to realize you are reading a great book. I was captivated and mentally embedded into the story almost immediately. Ellie Bennett is a great character. I love characters that defy stereotypes and I like underdog characters and Ellie has the spirit of both of those characters. I liked the ending which I will say I didn't see coming. I will also say that I hope he ended it the way he did because Ellie is going to be a recurring character in future Hinkson books. Also I received Hinkson's new book of short stories called The Deepening Shade I will definitely read in 2015
Mixed review Hinkson writes satisfying prose; I enjoyed reading this—but the story doesn't go anywhere Big Ugly is more potential than payoff, and there's no development whatsoever for any of the numerous characters the whole plot simply resolves itself on a dime, as though Hinkson had suddenly grown bored with his whole setup and decided to end it all as quickly as possible—and I really don't know why because, as I say, there really is solid potential here. I never felt I could "see" this protagonist, much less trust what she was thinking or feeling, beyond just some basic level of frustration and her palpable bitterness. Hinkson didn't give me enough time or sufficient details to get to know what makes any of the other characters tick, so I didn't in fact trust this novel's abrupt resolution it seemed to me that at least one of the antagonists might have been "only pretending" at the end and that, in "real life," at least one of these "baddies" would have come back again for revenge. I also felt that certain of the characters—particularly "Big F"—were mainly written as movie roles they say and do things that would look good up on the big screen, as opposed to doing and saying things that might come from a real human heart. I am likely to read more of Hinkson's work some day, but it's mainly because he's a competent writer, and not because he's a great storyteller. This is a soufflé, not meat-and-potatoes.
Jake Hinson is back with another dose of pure noir. It's so great to see another full length novel by this modern day noir master. Think Harry Whittington. Think Margaret Millar. Think Day Keene, Wade Miller, James M. Cain. Hinkson is the modern equivalent.
Here he sticks to the rural setting of his previous books, but gives us a classic noir structure with a thoroughly modern woman and its core. Ellie Bennet is no victim, no femme fatale. She is, as she so often says during the book, a straight up broad.
A tale of hard luck and sharp revenge, The Big Ugly will sit nicely on the shelf next to the other Big books like The Big Sleep, The Big Heat, The Big Steal and The Big Kill. Fine company indeed, but Hinkson earns it.
First, let me say I highly recommend this book. It you love crime books, you'll love it. If you love noir that gets a little creepy every once in a while, you'll love this book. If you just like good writing and a good story -- you'll love The Big Ugly. Also of note is that there is a tough tough touch female first person narrator protagonist who is a very cool character and that is unusual and fun. I'm pretty sure at this point I've read every piece of fiction that Hinkson has published and The Big Ugly is slightly different from his three other novels/novellas. Not exactly better or worse, just a little different. With Hell On Church Street, Posthumous Man, and Saint Homicide, part of the wonderful effect for the reader is that the plot, character and vibe of the books feels so new, so strikingly original and, as well, the desires of the characters are just so strong and the stakes if they failed so high and vividly set up that the pages just seem to burn to a crisp one by one. With The Big Ugly, while it is a wonderful, compelling story full of fascinating characters, the pace is more leisurely and measured, there is more space between plot points, more room for the reader to breath, sigh, relax and enjoy ones self. I loved it.
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