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beckyyreadss's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
This series always manages to baffle me, and I was wondering how he can keep going on with the trials and crimes in New York. But he always does.
This book has multiple point of view, but it mainly follows Eddie Flynn who was once a con man, an ex-lawyer who had a lot of interesting cases during this series. This case is the most chaotic yet. The Sandman killings have been solved, Daniel Miller has murdered fourteen people before he vanished and his wife, Carrie now faces trial as his accomplice. The FBI, the District Attorney, the media and everyone in America believes she knew and helped cover up her husband’s crimes. Eddie will never take a case unless his client is innocent. Now he just needs to prove to a jury and the entire world that Carrie is another victim of the Sandmans. She didn’t know her husband’s dark side and she has had no part in the murders. But so far, Eddie and his team are the only ones who believe her. Then there is Gabriel Lake he is a former FBI agent, before someone tried to kill him. Now he is an investigator with a vendetta against the Sandman. He believes he is the only one who can catch him, because he believes that everything the FBI know about serial killers is wrong. The Sandman is forced to come out of hiding to save her from a life sentence. He will kill to protect her, and everyone involved in the case is a target.
During this series, I have never got tired of the courtroom chapters and seeing Eddie Flynn kick ass as a lawyer, in TV shows and movies we are always fighting the defence attorney because we know that they are guilty but reading it from the side that they are innocent is so fascinating. The storyline is intriguing and the characters on the team are easy to love, I especially loved seeing more of Denise in this book and her just questioning if her boss is normal for what he is asking her to do. My favourite chapter in these books is when everything makes sense, when all the pieces of the game plan has fell into place and all the players are in the game. I always want Eddie to succeed, and I want him to stop losing female friends/ love interests.
As Eddie says everyone has a tell. I think I've gotten used to Steve’s style of writing and how these stories go that I guessed who was lying and who was being played quite quickly. There is one thing I would say that I didn’t like personally, a book peeve of mine, is small chapters. However, for once it worked. Especially as the tension was building and then changed to somewhere else. This was the second time this series had multiple POVs which just made it better and I loved it.
I didn’t lose interest in this book like I did with the first couple of books at the start of the series but I wasn’t as shocked as I was with Thirteen or as frustrated as I was with Devil’s Advocate. I cannot wait to see what Eddie Flynn faces next.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Kidnapping, Blood, and Murder
Moderate: Animal death, Addiction, and Animal cruelty
Minor: Vomit, Stalking, Gun violence, and Fire/Fire injury
alisonannk's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Torture
Moderate: Death of parent, Cursing, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Stalking and Vomit
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