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Fellside Hardcover – April 5, 2016

by M. R. Carey (Author)

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In the aftermath of a devastating fire, a prisoner is offered one chance at redemption in this haunting supernatural suspense from the author of USA Today bestseller, The Girl With All the Gifts.

Fellside is a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors. It's not the kind of place you'd want to end up. But it's where Jess Moulson could be spending the rest of her life.

It's a place where even the walls whisper.

And one voice belongs to a little boy with a message for Jess.

Will she listen?

Lose yourself in Fellside, M. R. Carey's chillingly atmospheric tale of addiction, revenge, and redemption.

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Jess Moulson wanders in very dark places in this overwrought contemporary thriller from Carey (The Girl with All the Gifts). She doesn't remember the incident that leads to her trial for the murder of 10-year-old Alex Beech, because she was on heroin when she set afire the photos from her ongoing toxic relationship. She doesn't remember escalating to burning down her entire London apartment in an attempt to kill her boyfriend, but Alex, an upstairs neighbor, died in the blaze. Jess is sentenced to Fellside Prison, where she must wrestle with the question of her own culpability, try not to get tangled in the prison's internal drug business intrigues, and, unexpectedly, find that Alex, or what's left of him, may still have a job for her to do. Carey sustains an interesting concept at a high pitch of suspense until nearly the end, when the book implodes into melodrama as the plot becomes completely implausible. The denouement is the novel's lowest point, but the path to get there is taut, tense, and unusual. (Apr.)\n

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"Fellside is as brilliant as it is dark and devious. M.R. Carey is either deranged or brilliant--or both. Hopefully, both."
―Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Rot &Ruin and Kill Switch on Fellside

"An intense, haunting thriller with heart. You will not want to put this down."

―Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of Daughter of Smoke & Bone on Fellside

"A dark, intriguing read."

―Martina Cole, author of Get Even on Fellside

"This eerie tale is sure to hook crime fiction and horror lovers."

―Library Journal on Fellside

"A twisty crime thriller as well as an exotic ghost story, Carey's second novel is as hard to categorize as it is to put down."

―Barnes and Noble on Fellside

"A fantastic, twist-upon-twist, shape-shifting novel. Gripping, deeply affecting and arrestingly beautiful, it is a haunting tale of raw horror and extraordinary redemption. I adored every page."

―Miranda Dickinson, Sunday Times bestselling author on Fellside

"The author of The Girl With All The Gifts delivers another gripping story."
―The Columbus Dispatch on Fellside

"Dark [and] suspenseful."

―Booklist on Fellside

"[A] grand piece of storytelling."

―Sunday Express on Fellside

"I read Fellside in a couple of days . . . I was absolutely nuts about it."―Book Riot on Fellside

Publisher : Orbit; 1st Edition (April 5, 2016)
Language : English
Hardcover : 496 pages
ISBN-10 : 0316300284
ISBN-13 : 978-0316300285
Item Weight : 1.5 pounds
Dimensions : 6.25 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,103,056 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,765 in Ghost Thrillers
- #3,601 in Women's Adventure Fiction (Books)
- #4,420 in Ghost Fiction

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Dyrk Ashton

Great creepy yarn worthy of the best Greek tragedies

Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2016

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Amazing new effort by Michael Carey. I loved The Girl with All the Gifts and couldn't wait to get started on Fellside. Carey has a real knack for a creating a wide variety of "voices" and POV, and Fellside is very different from Girl in that respect. The narrative and writing style fit the story perfectly (form follows function). Though it was a while before I could really find myself absorbed, and the build has a gradual curve, the effort is well worth it. Grim, flat (not in a bad way), in the beginning, with nearly no characters to actually "like" or root for, there's a thread of impending... something, that drew me further and further into what becomes an almost psychedelic nightmare of characters' bad choices following good following bad and so on, then I DID begin to care about the characters very much, becoming a story of hope that climaxes in a most bizarre but incredibly satisfying manner. And I must say, Fellside has some of the most beautiful closing lines I have ever read. Highly recommended.

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Like many others

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2017

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Like many others, I bought this book after reading the amazing "Girl With All The Gifts", and unfortunately I have to say it is not as good. The story is all over the place, it doesn't seem to know where it wants to go. Does it want to be a "whodunit" story, in which the protagonist slowly pieces together what happened the night that changed her life? Kind of, but not really, because it turns out that's not the final objective. Is it supposed to be about the supernatural, maybe something along the lines of "The Lovely Bones"? Yes in some way it is, but "the other side" is such an incomprehensible jumble that it's difficult to relate to anything happening there. Is it a prison movie, with crooked guards, nasty inmates, prison dynamics, etc? That part too, and it's just not nice to read. Basically, imagine a book with only freaky characters, none of them likeable, or even remotely normal or relatable. I know that by now it sounds like the book is terrible, but it's not. Just don't go in expecting another "Girl With All The Gifts".

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Barbara A. Carlson

Excellent book

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2017

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This is an engrossing story of personal redemption in a woman who can perform astral projection to the "other side". The theme is played out with the main character as well as others. The author gives us a new take on what happens after you die with astral projection woven through the story line. We also see a rather gritty view of life from the point of view of a former drug addict in a women's prison. The characters feel like real people and the horrors of prison are clear but not excessively graphic.

Well-written, this story pulled me along and I didn't want to put it down. I read it way too late into the night and neglected my chores to read this book. It was well worth wearing things from the back of my closet. Time well spent.

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Heather L. Westerberg

Mostly successful supernatural suspense

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2016

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Contains very minor spoilers:

Like many other reviewers, Fellside, for me, is a bit hard to describe. I liked it more than I disliked it though, which is the reason for 4 stars.

The basic premise is that Jess, a heroin addict, accidentally kills a boy in a fire. She winds up in jail, where her life intertwines with the inmates in unexpected ways.

I would not classify this book as horror at all, as I never really felt that anything truly frightening was going on. I would say it's more of a suspense novel with some supernatural elements. Unlike others, I did not actually view the "twist" with any surprise, having figured it out fairly early in the novel (the author leaves plenty of clues).

The writing is solid, and overall the book moves at a decent pace. It does slow down in a few areas and could have used some slight editing, but it wasn't anything too hard to get past. The tone is completely different from The Girl With All The Gifts, which I didn't view as a bad thing, but if you're looking for more of that style of novel, you will probably be disappointed.

Overall, I liked this book and look forward to more from this author. Only the slightly slow pacing in some areas caused me to knock it down to 4 stars.

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king toot

gripping, though the setting and general ambience is unrelentlessly depressing

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2016

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gripping, hard to put down, though the setting and general ambience is mercilessly depressing. The writing avoids cliche and avoids calling attention to itself; even in describing supernatural experiences ... it does so without bogging down. The main character is a person of exceptionally good will so you do come to sympathize with her, even though at first I was afraid that she, being a junkie, would not be able to hold my attention... (I am kinda tired of junkies). All the characterizations are vivid and convincing, even though there are a couple who seem to be nothing but evil... even those ones had enough facets not to get stale. The ending is a surprise and makes me hope there will be a sequel.

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J. Carter

Swing and a Miss

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2017

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This book gained my interest due to the strength of The Girl With All The Gifts, which was a great read. Sadly this story isn't nearly as good. Unlikable protagonist in a watered down ghost story in which red herrings abound in an attempt to make up for a lackluster plot. Too many points of view from characters we care nothing about just to explain their motivations. I almost gave up immediately (don't start a plot in which the character is on trial or in jail....every dungeon master knows this), but kept going out of respect for the writer in hopes it would get better. Don't bother, it doesn't.

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Zuky the BookBum

Not what I was expecting...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 15, 2018

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After reading The Hungries series by M. R. Carey, I pushed Fellside to the top of my TBR list because I absolutely loved that duology and has high hopes for this novel too. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite live up to expectations, and I’ve seen plenty of others say they felt the same thing about this.

From the synopsis, I thought this book was going to be a creepy paranormal tale of a prison haunted by spirits but it’s not that at all. Without giving too much away, this is a story about one woman’s grief and finding peace within herself through the means of a spirit she sees.

This whole book is set within a prison, so there is a mix of classic prison characters in this book, like the distant but friendly cell mate, the top-dog prison inmate who runs everything from the inside, the corrupt prison officer and the psychiatrist. There was really nothing new when it came to the characters in this book. They were all deeply flawed and had incredible background building but that’s as far as my admiration for them goes. I feel disconnected to all of them on some level.

The plot of this book follows our main character Jess, who has been accused of murder. She is haunted by the vision of the little boy she accidentally killed by setting fire to her apartment and is desperately sure she is not guilty of what she has been accused. I found the story in this one a little bland, despite the high page count. There was plenty going on but none of it was really that interesting to me. If it hadn’t been for the fact that I read this as part of 25 in 5, I definitely wouldn’t have finished this book in the space of a day.

I did like some of the imagery in this novel. When Jess steps into the sleep world, the place where this spirit lives, I loved the way M. R. Carey described it! You know that scene in (original) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where they go into the TV and there’s all those tiny little particles up in the air? It was just like that only slightly creepier. Plus, I say this book didn’t creep me out but there was one moment at the start of the book where Jess is bed-bound and she feels a presence behind the head of her bed that definitely did give me goosebumps, but that’s as far as it went for me.

I did also enjoy the way that this book comes together at the end. There are a lot of stories that run alongside each other in this novel and it was interesting to see how they all concluded. That’s one thing Carey did very well at in this story, and that was tying up all the loose ends. This turned out to be a very emotional book in the end, which I wasn’t expecting at all!

Overall this book was just a ‘meh’ book for me. I just don’t think I click with fiction set in prisons as I’ve neither really enjoyed ‘Orange is the New Black’ or another book I read based in a prison recently ‘The Captives’. If you’re looking for a slow, gently disturbing read that’s full to the brim with characters and emotion, this may very well work for you!

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RaiH

Good, but not quite compelling enough

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 29, 2018

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Spoilers ahead: Part prison thriller, part supernatural mystery. I was drawn to this book by the supernatural element. Having read The Girl With All The Gifts, I was hopeful the character development would be equally good. Sadly this wasn't always the case. The main character, Jess and her ghost guide were sympathetic characters and I was drawn mostly to her story and the mystery she promised to solve surrounding 'Alex' the boy form the ghost took. Her personal story as more evidence comes to light about her own case is well written and I really wanted everything to work out for her. At times I felt like I was reading two stories, which at times left me wondering how it was all tied together, but not in a good way. The prison scenes and the drug ring involved often dragged and none of the characters involved were particularly compelling. I kept reading just in order to get to the next Jess chapter. Finally Jess becomes involved, or rather her refusal to be involved and it's this that's the catalyst for the (long) finale. The ending wasn't exactly satisfying. Loose ends get tied up, sure, but though I wasn't expecting a bed of roses happy ending, I was disappointed with the outcome to Jess's story. It left me feeling cold that her character arc pretty much came to nothing. The slither of happiness was given to a character whose own story was briefly told that was originally meant as a warning, mentioned, vaguely interesting, but didn't give the emotional pull that perhaps the author was going for. It confused rather than pleasantly surprised me that a character I didn't care for, who had little more than a bit part would get such an ending. The plot twists are written well and will surprise you, if not always in a good way. Still, I was hooked, but mainly for Jess, not for anything else. Honestly, I wish now I'd rented the book rather than bought it. I'd rather give 2.5 but the rating system won't let me give half a star. It's definitely half and half.

Cavo1989

Worth a read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 15, 2019

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I love M.R Carey his characters are those that make you think about them
long after you have finished the book. The story starts out as a tragedy of a life gone wrong through substance misuse you really feel for Moulson and also feel angry at her.
I didn’t expect it to turn into a supernatural thriller but it does and what else would you get from an M.R Carey book?.
I find that M.R Carey’s endings are rushed a little and it’s a bit like he is so involved with the plot he doesn’t think about how to end it. However I truly enjoyed it even though there are some flaws in the application of medicine and medical law (IV tramadol straight into a vein without a cannula hmm I think not!!). However it’s a good read and I was sorry the book ended.

NJL1974

Unusual, but not necessarily in a good way...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 12, 2016

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Magic Realism in a Women's prison. As weird as it sounds. Carey is clearly a writer of rare talent, but the combination of spirits wandering in dreams and a prison full of well-worn characters straight out of 'Bad Girls' was a step too far for me. Unlike other negative reviewers, I managed to make it to the end (although I couldn't claim to have read every word - it felt very long), but the plot was very predictable and the main character just too self-absorbed and pathetic to appeal.

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Richard Barber

Great story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 19, 2020

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Mike Carey is a good writer. Solid, professional, a guy who knows how to tell a good tale. He wrote "The Girl with all the Gifts" so he has pedigree .
But this, this is something else. Fellside is class. It is a lesson in writing with the heart.
I'm not sure whether you'd consider this to be a ghost story wrapped inside a crime tale, or a crime story with a ghost. It doesn't really matter, and most ghost stories are heavy on the whodunit anyway. What sets Fellside apart is the emotion of the writing, the honesty r bravery of the story.

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