Love Will Tear Us Apart: (The Stranger Times 3)

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The scene is set for another rollercoaster ride through more strangeness with the Founders and the Folk. There's a lot of characters and a lot of stuff was revealed in book 2, and it does wear the backstory a bit heavily (a common problem with these series: I had to give up on Rivers of London when the alternative seemed to be rereading the whole thing and possibly taking notes).

Hannah has left The Stranger Times for an exclusive retreat exploring the benefits of giving her marriage a second try. With Banecroft distracted, the shock resignation of assistant editor, Hannah Willis, couldn't have come at a worse time. In this book we pick up a short time after the events of Book 2 - and things have taken a bit of a turn at the paper.

The owner of The Stranger Times gave him an opportunity to redeem himself and, although his behaviour was most times bullish and downright anti-social, he has provided an acceptable service to date. Love Will Tear Us Apart is the third instalment of the Stranger Times series, about a Manchester-based newspaper whose staff investigate supernatural events and other oddities.As promised in the blurb this book resolves a few story arcs that have been with us since the beginning of the series and adds a few more besides.

Indeed, as we find Hannah contemplating the oddities about her divorce proceedings, it seems she has a role to play still, thank goodness. The page space could have been used for delving into the subtleties of the characters’ actions, which I could have done with more.

With Banecroft distracted, the shock resignation of assistant editor, Hannah Willis, couldn’t have come at a worse time.

And in this third volume there are mentions (although clearly defined) of events and people from the previous two books. The team at the Stranger Times is undergoing a period of unsettling changes: Hannah Willis, the assistant editor who was carving her own niche at the paper, just resigned abruptly, with no other explanation that she’s considering going back to her cheating husband – and to better gather her thoughts on the matter, she booked a stay at a new-age-oriented, exclusive spa where she will learn how to put her life into perspective. You need to know how the characters have developed and what has led them to this point and to the decisions they are making. Nothing is as it seems and we’re never quite sure who to trust - previously likeable characters are behaving suspiciously, and some who disgusted us at first are becoming strangely sympathetic. He performed all around the world, had several well-received Edinburgh shows and supported acts such as Sarah Millican on tour before hanging up his clowning shoes to concentrate on writing.And as this is the culmination of one of the series’ overarching plot threads, you need to know about Banecroft, his wife and Simon Brush. Hannah has gone back to her husband, Betty the new assistant editor is stranger than your average journo, Grace is up to her ears in an audit, Stella is struggling with her new powers/career/past and Banecroft is . We catch up with the gang, as chaos reigns, and we're introduced to a new assistant editor Rosie, who is a great character. Look, if it will stop you all clucking like tedious hens, as it happens, I have the assistant-editor situation in hand.