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The Executioner

Chris Carter

4.24 AVERAGE

isa_books's review against another edition

3.5

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

To be completely honest, I was a little disappointed by this book. As I had enjoyed the suspense and twists of the previous book so much, this was a bit of a let-down. There just wasn't as much suspense, and I didn't really think Mollie's abilities were that realistic, taking me out of the story a bit whenver she came up. Also, the twists were honestly just meh. One of them I saw coming from miles away, the other simply didn't feel like it mattered that much. Lastly, the writing just felt really simple, but that may just be because prior to this I finished an epic fantasy with complex writing.

Anyway, I will very likely pick up the next book in the series regardless, as I am enjoying the general ideas of this series, and I'm hoping the next book will be on the same level as the first.

tisvinyl's review against another edition

5.0

Another fantastic addition to Chris Carters "Robert Hunter" novels. This guy really knows how to create over the top gruesome serial killers. I was going to encourage my Mother to read these but I'm concerned she may move in with us for protection.

kelly2006's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense

amy_reads4's review against another edition

3.0

dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Whilst I absolutely loved book 1 this one wasn’t quite my favourite, I found myself having to force myself to pick it up and skim reading at the end. I do think it may have been a me issue as I had just come from reading high fantasy, I thought this might break it up for me a bit but it just missed on a couple of things for me.

The premise was brilliant, a serial killer who kills his victims with their deepest fears, as someone who suffers with crippling anxiety this might have been one of the reasons it wasn’t my fav 🤣 and the deaths in this were very detailed and gruesome. I also felt like a lot was based on the characters weight, and that people could only be attractive if they were thin (but again I feel that may be a me insecurity creeping in there!)

I do love Robert Hunter and I will go on to read the third book, as I do want to see where the rest of the series goes, the first 2 were so dark that I would expect nothing else from the next two!

bookish20's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

My 6P review: Premise, Plot, People, Place, Prose/Pace, Praise

A ritualistic killer, killing his victims using their inner most fears.

Holy crap. This was brilliant.

I read The Crucufix Killer almost ten years ago and I wondered if I would still enjoy Chris Carter’s books now. Well, I can say, I most certainly did.

I was turning the pages as fast as I could. This was fast paced and really snappy. With short chapters it felt so quick and easy to read.

The plot was excellent, and I cared for the characters.

Not one for the faint hearted though. These crimes were horrific but how Detective Robert Hunter and his team go about finding the killer was so easy to follow, believable and satisfying.

I won’t be waiting another ten years to read the third book in the series.