Plague Times Trilogy: A Lovely Way to Burn (Paperback)

from atticusfinch1048

A Lovely Way To Burn - An Interesting Take on a Crime Thriller A Lovely Way To Burn by Louise Welsh is the first book in what she has dubbed The Plague Times and is an excellent dystopian crime thriller. This has been one of the most absorbing, reads of the year, that could easily become one of t...

from jkdavies

I enjoyed the writing, Louise Welsh always manages to create a slightly unnerving off-kilter atmosphere, and the juxtaposition of Stevie, a shopping channel presenter, and the worlds decent into dystopia as a deadly virus hits was interesting. Stevie has a superficially glamorous surgeon boyfrien...

from RidgewayGirl

When Stevie's boyfriend doesn't show up, she figures he stood her up. It had been a casual relationship anyway and she assumed he'd lost interest. She still goes by his apartment to pick up the things she'd left there, and discovers his body. A pandemic is sweeping across Britain, but Stevie is c...

from Cassandra2020

A Lovely Way to Burn by Louise Welsh - GoodThis wasn't quite as I expected. I knew it was a 'plague' book, what I hadn't realised was it is also a crime novel.The setting is London, no definitive date, but now-ish. People are coming down with an illness: 'the sweats'. They are dying like flies. F...

from CarltonC

Stevie (Stephanie) Flint is a mostly believable protagonist in a near-future biological plague story set in and around London. Stevie catches the the plague, the "sweats", early and survives, whereas her friends and acquaintances all succumb to it. However, once well, Stevie is pursuing the kille...