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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
This one was a page turner! I’ll admit that I got a little confused in the beginning because there are a lot of characters to keep track of. But once I got them all sorted I was taken for a wild ride with this one! Honestly, the twists and secrets just keep coming right up until the very end and there’s no way you’ll see them all coming. Definitely a good suspense read for the fall season!
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4.5 stars. I would like to see more of Jane Munro and the team she worked with...maybe a sequel? Though this type of storyline is not new, I enjoyed the forensics and the psychology in this one. It didn't grab me right away, but it kept me interested once I understood all the players.
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
medium-paced
overall, i really enjoyed it! the story unfolded at a steady pace, and so it was actually easy to get immersed in the story without getting bored with one or two very high-action scenes thrown in. i have to say there were juet too many characters. and although the ending was unexpected, it was so in the grossest way possible, especially with
Spoiler
the mother staying an apologist for her incestuous, abusive, and rapist husband, saying that, oh, but he really loved her!! bruh. i'm glad that jane was judging her because i personally wanted to throw up
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Struggling with her own life altering event, Jane Munro takes on a “cold case” dating back to the 70s. A body is discovered under the a chapel in the area belong to a ski resort. Jane must race against time to try and figure out who the body belonged to and how it got there. Throughout the process of the investigation, multiple characters get introduced. I will say I’m always about a dual POV in books but this book had 6+ POVs. After a while, it got hard to follow and try to piece everything together. As details get introduced, it’s easy to start making speculations about who the killer is. For a moment, I thought it was going to turn into a Pretty Little Liars thing but the twist as to who the killer was worse than that. Never would have guessed. Where the murder and details were solved, there was still a lot of details that were introduced that never get spoken about again. There was no closure. The story just kind of abruptly stopped. Still an overall good book.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual assault
This deserves all the stars, from the moment I started reading I knew this book was for me! I love mysteries that surround cold cases and this was perfect.
“Our lives are written into our bones.”
Forty seven years ago Annalise Jansen attended a party with her friends, on the way home she got into an argument with her friend Mary. Mary regrets leaving her alone, because no one has seen Annalise since that night. The group was thrown into the spotlight and called The Shoreview Six.
Present day a couple construction workers uncover remains under a chapel in the woods at a ski resort. Assigned to the case is Sergeant Jane Munro. Jane is going through a lot, she is 6 months pregnant, and her fiance went missing 6 months ago.
We read as Jane begins to investigate and the bones are positively identified, the friends from the past known as the “Shoreview Six” worry because it threatens to expose a terrible pledge made on an autumn night forty-seven years ago. You begin to see the cracks l, will they still stick together and keep quiet? Or—as the tension between them mounts—will the desire to protect themselves first be too tempting….
Please be aware of of triggers of sexual abuse
“Our lives are written into our bones.”
Forty seven years ago Annalise Jansen attended a party with her friends, on the way home she got into an argument with her friend Mary. Mary regrets leaving her alone, because no one has seen Annalise since that night. The group was thrown into the spotlight and called The Shoreview Six.
Present day a couple construction workers uncover remains under a chapel in the woods at a ski resort. Assigned to the case is Sergeant Jane Munro. Jane is going through a lot, she is 6 months pregnant, and her fiance went missing 6 months ago.
We read as Jane begins to investigate and the bones are positively identified, the friends from the past known as the “Shoreview Six” worry because it threatens to expose a terrible pledge made on an autumn night forty-seven years ago. You begin to see the cracks l, will they still stick together and keep quiet? Or—as the tension between them mounts—will the desire to protect themselves first be too tempting….
Please be aware of of triggers of sexual abuse