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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
I enjoy this series, but this book seemed to wrap the series up. I'm curious to see if she releases future books about Harper Connelley.
We finished the series, which has to count for something, I guess?
It feels like each book was written by a different—and successively cheaper—ghostwriter, and I think that's about the kindest way I can think to review this final installment in a series that had so much promise, almost all of it unrealized.
It feels like each book was written by a different—and successively cheaper—ghostwriter, and I think that's about the kindest way I can think to review this final installment in a series that had so much promise, almost all of it unrealized.
I had to follow this series to the bitter end and I'm glad I did because this book is the best out of the four. Alas, apparently there are no more to follow (although I recently read this series, like Sookie, is being turned into a tv show. Count me in.) If you have been iffy to read to the end for any reason, forget it. You need to read this book to resolve all the threads about Harper and Tolliver's backstory that were dangled in the last three books. Without spoilering anything, I'll say that the fate of their long missing sister Cameron is finally resolved.
This story picks up shortly after the events of the third book, a nasty case involving the murder of some boys in North Carolina. Now Harper and Tolliver are back near their childhood home of Texarkana so that Harper can tell a wealthy local family how their patriarch died several years ago. She learns that he was murdered. And that his nurse, buried nearby, died as a complication of child birth. Both items are news to his family. From there, things move quickly. Someone claims to have spotted Harper's sister Cameron at a local mall. Tolliver's deadbeat dad resurfaces fresh out of prison and anxious to reconnect-or maybe try to mooch off of his now adult sons. We finally get to meet Tolliver and Harper's oft mentioned younger sisters. And someone is once again trying to kill Harper and Tolliver. But who it is and how everything relates is a real page-turner that made me read the last 100 pages in one sitting. And, bonus, Harper's psychic friend Manfred makes an appearance.
Andddd, yes Harper and Tolliver get it on a few times and it still hasn't ceased to be a little icky to me (cmon, she still calls him her brother occasionally) but, whatever. I kind of ignore those parts.
Everything I love about Charlaine's writing is here: her talent for describing the minutiae of a character's routine without being dry and pedantic, compelling mystery, and profound empathy for her characters who tend to be Southern and poor. I am seriously vampired out these days (who isn't) so if this is the end of the line for Harper, I hope Charlaine brings out another series soon.
This story picks up shortly after the events of the third book, a nasty case involving the murder of some boys in North Carolina. Now Harper and Tolliver are back near their childhood home of Texarkana so that Harper can tell a wealthy local family how their patriarch died several years ago. She learns that he was murdered. And that his nurse, buried nearby, died as a complication of child birth. Both items are news to his family. From there, things move quickly. Someone claims to have spotted Harper's sister Cameron at a local mall. Tolliver's deadbeat dad resurfaces fresh out of prison and anxious to reconnect-or maybe try to mooch off of his now adult sons. We finally get to meet Tolliver and Harper's oft mentioned younger sisters. And someone is once again trying to kill Harper and Tolliver. But who it is and how everything relates is a real page-turner that made me read the last 100 pages in one sitting. And, bonus, Harper's psychic friend Manfred makes an appearance.
Andddd, yes Harper and Tolliver get it on a few times and it still hasn't ceased to be a little icky to me (cmon, she still calls him her brother occasionally) but, whatever. I kind of ignore those parts.
Everything I love about Charlaine's writing is here: her talent for describing the minutiae of a character's routine without being dry and pedantic, compelling mystery, and profound empathy for her characters who tend to be Southern and poor. I am seriously vampired out these days (who isn't) so if this is the end of the line for Harper, I hope Charlaine brings out another series soon.
This is the final book in the series and what a way to end it!
Obviously, as this is the final book, the story was a fair bit different than the usual Harper Connelly fare. Normally the books begin with an all-encompassing case, which clearly did not happen here. Though the initial case in this story was interwoven throughout, there were other things going on that came to the forefront of the story.
Harper and Tolliver were their usual delightful selves and we finally got to meet the rest of the family - Mark, Matthew, Iona, Hank, Gracie and Mariella - characters that have been mentioned in all of the previous novels, but never introduced.
Anyway! The final chapter of the story and it really did end. All of the loose ends were wrapped up and we finally find out what happened to Cameron! Thank god - as I've been wondering that since book one.
Overall, an awesome end to the series. Charlaine Harris didn't go overboard with this one - four books and done. Not like some of those series that go on for like thirteen books (sorry Sookie).
Check out more of my reviews at http://whatabookbitch.blogspot.ca
Obviously, as this is the final book, the story was a fair bit different than the usual Harper Connelly fare. Normally the books begin with an all-encompassing case, which clearly did not happen here. Though the initial case in this story was interwoven throughout, there were other things going on that came to the forefront of the story.
Harper and Tolliver were their usual delightful selves and we finally got to meet the rest of the family - Mark, Matthew, Iona, Hank, Gracie and Mariella - characters that have been mentioned in all of the previous novels, but never introduced.
Anyway! The final chapter of the story and it really did end. All of the loose ends were wrapped up and we finally find out what happened to Cameron! Thank god - as I've been wondering that since book one.
Overall, an awesome end to the series. Charlaine Harris didn't go overboard with this one - four books and done. Not like some of those series that go on for like thirteen books (sorry Sookie).
Check out more of my reviews at http://whatabookbitch.blogspot.ca
Great story
I have read the previous books 📚in this series, and this one doesn't disappoint. Harper and Tolliver are great protagonists. It also says up a new character for a different series, "Midnight" .
I have read the previous books 📚in this series, and this one doesn't disappoint. Harper and Tolliver are great protagonists. It also says up a new character for a different series, "Midnight" .
I like the Harper Connelly mysteries, and they're good to read if you like Harris' writing style and need something in between the Sookie books (which I totally do). This one felt kind of like an end and also not at the same time, as there was a long-running mystery solved, but it seemed a little too weird and convenient.
3.5 stars. I like this series. This one felt so grim to me, though. Still enjoyed it.