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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
No cannot read this. It feels off and just really irritates me. I cannot rate this as I didn’t finish this book because I couldn’t get into it and it didn’t grip me. I didn’t like how it started I also didn’t feel connected or in anyway interested. It just fell flat and stale
A good read. Even after figuring out who the killer was with 150 pages to go, there were quite a few interesting twists at the end.
The newspapers call him the cremator, he kills women in violent ways and then burns the bodies, it has been getting marginal press because he has been killing prostitutes up to this but the third victim, that they know of, is the daughter of a powerful man and things start to get messy for the investigators. They also have a witness who is unreliable and dealing with her own demons. Advocate Kate Conlan is trying to deal with all this and the investigation, but the killer seems to have a strange interest in her.
It's an interesting read with characters that really came to life for me and I'm curious where things will go from here with the series.
It's an interesting read with characters that really came to life for me and I'm curious where things will go from here with the series.
This wasn't a bad bit of thriller work - when women show up stabbed, mutilated, and then doused in gasoline and burned, the only witness is put into the care of a Witness/Victim's rights woman, Kate. Kate, who has suffered a familial loss years ago, and is trying to get past it, doesn't normally work with kids (and of course, the witness is a kid).
So, who is the killer? Can Kate withstand the FBI agent arriving (who is a man she sought comfort with during her familial collapse)? Can the police figure it out before more people are killed? Well, in true thriller style, the tension gets jacked up a notch at a time, and the characters - though often walking stereotypes (the dark angst-ridden FBI profiler, the tough-rough-around-the-edges detective, the hard-ass victims rights advocate) - are interesting enough to keep you going. I'll be heading onward to 'Dust to Dust' soon.
The only caveat with this one was the reading voice - the woman doing the reading didn't have a great deal of versatility with the reading of male voices, and some of them came across like cartoons. This was especially bad when in the voice of the killer during the climactic scene, but it didn't completely intrude or throw me off.
So, who is the killer? Can Kate withstand the FBI agent arriving (who is a man she sought comfort with during her familial collapse)? Can the police figure it out before more people are killed? Well, in true thriller style, the tension gets jacked up a notch at a time, and the characters - though often walking stereotypes (the dark angst-ridden FBI profiler, the tough-rough-around-the-edges detective, the hard-ass victims rights advocate) - are interesting enough to keep you going. I'll be heading onward to 'Dust to Dust' soon.
The only caveat with this one was the reading voice - the woman doing the reading didn't have a great deal of versatility with the reading of male voices, and some of them came across like cartoons. This was especially bad when in the voice of the killer during the climactic scene, but it didn't completely intrude or throw me off.