Queenie: The gripping, epic historical crime novel from the No 1 Sunday Times bestselling author

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Tbh I always liked Queenie in the other books but at times just what she ‘overlooked’ re her boys behaviours especially Vinnie didn’t endear me to her quite so much this time a gripping novel that brings the east end to life, with many brilliant characters abound...it also gives insight into the lives that were lived in those times during the war after the war, the teddy boy era and into today and it worked so well...and you have to feel for queenie what she had to fight for and bring her boys up with the man she married who couldnt or wouldnt find a proper job I liked this and it was compulsively readable but it’s not my favourite in the series. It was good to learn more about the origins of the Butlers and if you like a gritty crime or family saga then this one will be for you! I think I’m perhaps a bit tired of the same characters doing the same things throughout multiple books. I’m a fan of Chambers though and will definitely keep reading her novels! ⁣

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My characters are memorable and I grew up in an area where I knew a lot of villains and I moved in those circles.“ This is actually a difficult review for me because there were some parts of this book that I loved, and some parts that I didn't. I've been reading more books of genres that aren't in my comfort zone recently and I'm just unsure of this. Initially I felt like the writing style was a bit simplistic, but I warmed to it and soon came to understand it as a reflection of the protagonist. We meet Queenie as a young girl, living in the East End, evacuated during the War. All the other characters are there too, Viv and Albie. Life was tough so Queenie had to be tough. I'm a big fan of Kimberley Chambers. I've read all her books so when I learned she was writing this book, I couldn't wait to read it. The story tells us what Queenies life was like before we met her in The Trap. Her life has not been an easy one. You will need to read the book to find out the reasons why. The storyline is believable and the characters are dysfunctional but lovable. There is humor and sadness in the Butlers lives. This book can be read as a standalone, but I'm sure, if you haven't already read The Butker series, you will after reading this marvellous book. I highly recommend it.Queenie is not always likable, she swears like a sailor and is not always a paragon of virtue, but one can commiserate with her considering her early life. Kimberley is a lady with a very witty sense of humour that makes its marks in her fantastic books. Her books leave you gripped and up all night reading them (truly you can’t put them down until the end!)

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It is so hard to go into it without spoiling anything and we do not do spoilers. We get to see Queenie as a child, a teen and adulthood. Events that lead to shaping her as a person and seeing why family is absolutely everything to Queenie, particularly her boys and her sister. At times she is hard to understand, I coldn't fathom some of her choices/actions. Others you get it, you get why she is the way she is and who she becomes.Brilliantly delivers a story of violence, treachery and family ties… Easy to read and hard to put down” - News of the World Chambers' first novel, Billie Jo, was published by Random House’s Preface imprint in 2008. Chambers published another five books with Preface before moving to HarperCollins with her novel in 2012. [12] Chambers still writes all her books by hand. [13] All the other characters aside one of the ones who I was most intrigued to read about was a young Vinny Butler. We knew some of the reasons and events that made him the man he was in the later books but one reason why a prequel being written after a series has been completed works so well is that it makes us understand the characters more. I found myself thinking about scenes from the series after reading something in this book and thinking, 'well that’s why that happened' or 'oh that makes perfect sense now'. Vinny has always been a fascinating and enigmatic character and I have to admit I was gripped to some parts of his story here in Queenie. The plot centres around the start of WWII, and how the children were affected, how people felt losing loved ones, and how some kids who were taken to people out of the cities where the war was.