Title: Great idea, shame about the book
Review: It's a promising premise: a strong female protagonist on a mission with a dark secret is on the lookout for hunky Scottish men. Nice. Unfortunately Faber's plot build-up is obvious, if not trite. The clunky construction betrays the author thinking aloud to himself: "and this is where I put in the clue about her background"; "if I make her look funnily at him here then readers should catch on to what I've been getting at about X"; etc. This book is about a single idea, which is so under-developed that if your best friend had told it to you over a drink, you would have laughed and sworn that it'd never get published. This is not a triumph - it's just a leaking plot that Faber attempts to cover up with gruesome imagery and heavy-handed suspense.
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