The main character, Kate, was terrific. I connected with her right from the beginning. I loved how dedicated she was to figuring out the truth behind the mystery. She wanted justice and I admired how hard she fought for that. She didn't necessarily think all of her plans out before she executed them, but I thought that helped keep the book exciting. I loved some of the banter and general dialogue between not only Otty and Joe, but also the words they were putting into their scripts. The snippets that are given hooked me into wanting to watch the programme they were working on. Despite being twins Ron and Reg have two distinct personalities, you can hear and feel the change when each brother takes his turn to write a piece of the story. Reg is quite pretentious and self-assured in the sense he seems to think he and Ron were wrongly arrested (the police cheated and his mates betrayed him) despite their string of crimes and felt their prison sentences were cruelly long. However when put into context they received longer sentences than Dennis Nielson who killed a lot more men in his time than the Krays so it does seem from that point of view they were made an example of. Ron is more apologetic in the sense he felt he got his brother into trouble "when i started getting into bother with the law, Reg was bound to follow me, he had no choice. It was like the law of nature." But Ron also admits that from an early age he had a thing about guys and was likely even keen to kill someone. Towards the end of the book there seems to be some childlike qualities to his personalities. They both definitely think all their actions were justified and despite their insistence that they only hurt the villains I'm sure a lot of innocent people got hurt along the way. I did however feel some sympathy with them reading about their time in prison, watching men who had commited similar or worse times being released when there was no chance of parole or leniency for them because of their name. Her neyse genel olarak kitabı sevdim. Hatta çok sevdim diyebilirim. Bundan sonra daha çok gerilim polisiye okumaya karar verdim. Gerçi kitapta inanılmaz bir gerilim olduğunu söylemek zor ancak katilin kim olduğunu tahmin edememenin ve aralarda şüpheli bir oğlanın düşüncelerini okumanın azıcık da olsa gerginlik yarattığını inkar edemeyeceğim. Bir an Kate'in de başı belaya girecek diye korkmadım değil hani. Twin brothers Ronald "Ronnie" Kray (24 October 1933 – 17 March 1995) and Reginald "Reggie" Kray (24 October 1933 – 1 October 2000) were English gangsters who were the foremost perpetrators of organised crime in the East End of London during the 1950s and 1960s. Ronald, commonly called Ron or Ronnie, most likely suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.[4]

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Elston's writing is top notch in this genre. A solid YA Mystery that keeps you guessing until the very end. I loved the pace of this and the investigatory elements woven throughout. I've heard and seen a lot about the Krays, Reg and Ron, and their older brother, Charlie. I've seen them mentioned in Jessie Keane's books of London's gangland. I had no idea quite what complex men Reg and Ron were. I like sleep a lot. Sure, when I was younger, I used to stay up till the wee hours of the morning to finish a book in one sitting, but those days are pretty much past me. Except when it comes to a book like this one. It's SO rare for me to forego sleep in the name of a good book, but for the past two nights, I have stayed up reading This is Our Story and I haven't regretted a single second of missed sleep. I don't know that I've read a book that kept me on the edge of my seat like this one in ages...maybe ever.

Were the streets of London possibly any safer in that era if you were mugged and went to the Krays instead of the police?

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Honestly the only issue I had with This Is Our Story was the romance, and even that was only minor. It flowed with the storyline well, but it seemed a little cliché. But that's my ONLY complaint. From their own mouths (with help from Fred Dineage), this book is engaging, informative and unapologetic. The writing was also too simple for my tastes. There's nothing fancy about it, Point A to Point B stuff. There’s something with thrillers that just capture my attention and DEMAND to be read in one sitting, it’s not my fault, I swear. :) :) :)

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Otty and Joe’s decision to hide behind humour is further complicated by the arrival at the agency of Scottish hunk Fraser Langham and as inevitable as day following night, you know this will be the start of a messy love triangle. Fraser, initially cast as misogynistic interloper is one of those characters you want to loathe simply for coming between Otty and Joe and although he’s a perfectly acceptable candidate to win Otty’s heart I couldn’t prevent myself from viewing him as I would a pantomime villain, booing and hissing at his latest move to woo Otty. There is some humour for a while in the way Joe and Fraser clash heads, each man vying for Otty’s attention but it is short lived. The Krays will continue to intrigue us and morality seekers will continue to probe the fascination with them.