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Review: Valentine by Tom Savage
I haven't read any of Tom Savage's books before. I picked this book up at a book sale because it looked intriguing. I didn't realize I was going to be in for such a treat! Savage is a master at placing red herrings and developing a fabulous psychological thriller.
While in college, four girls play a prank that will later come back to haunt them. Unfortunately, their unpleasant joke was unknowingly aimed at a guy who was not quite right in the head. He get expelled, kills his parents and ends up in prison. While in prison he has 12 years to plot his revenge against the women who he blames for ruining his life.
This book will take you into the midn of a psychotic intellectual who gets his revenge through hard work, preseverance and brilliance. You won't want to put the book down! I do admit that the very end of the story was a bit too pat. I think it would have presented a much more interesting dillemma if things had played out a little differently, but you will have to read it yourself to see what I mean.
I am usually pretty good at figuring out the whodunit in books, but this book surprised me in the end and I am ready to go back and read it again to search for the clues I missed the first time.
