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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
This whole series is great and I adore the characters (except the ones you're meant to hate!) but this one was slightly less enjoyable than the first two. I still gobbled it up and I'll definitely finish the series though!
Plugging along through the back catalogue. Many minor annoyances with the character development, but the author does know how to keep a thriller moving! Extra half star for an ending that I didn't anticipate.
Wait.... what? The ending - what are we supposed to think? The whole book felt un- edited, like a proof.
Slaughter's books are gruesome. I want to not read the them, but I can't stop myself. I want to see what happens. But the character development is ... off. Sara & Jeffery - on or off? Everything with Lena - why? Sara's family - WTH is going on there. Can you say dysfunction?
This book feels unfinished.
Slaughter's books are gruesome. I want to not read the them, but I can't stop myself. I want to see what happens. But the character development is ... off. Sara & Jeffery - on or off? Everything with Lena - why? Sara's family - WTH is going on there. Can you say dysfunction?
This book feels unfinished.
Because I've "read ahead" in the series and know a bit about major events to come, this feels like the first book where Slaughter shows us where she's heading with these characters and this series. Another very dark book, filled with despair and moments where characters seem headed off the the rails.
Great plotting (one of Karin Slaughter's strengths) and lots of surprises and shocking descriptions. The ending is stunning. But reading about these characters---especially Lena--just makes me weary. She's portrayed totally realistically. We don't expect things to just turn out OK--they can't. Still, 500 pages of human failings and idiotic mistakes is a lot to take. From now on, I'm reading these one at a time.
Great plotting (one of Karin Slaughter's strengths) and lots of surprises and shocking descriptions. The ending is stunning. But reading about these characters---especially Lena--just makes me weary. She's portrayed totally realistically. We don't expect things to just turn out OK--they can't. Still, 500 pages of human failings and idiotic mistakes is a lot to take. From now on, I'm reading these one at a time.
Slaughter seems to be a little too comfortable with torture porn. If the Grant County series continues on the route, I'll have to pass.
Another fantastic entry in The Grant County series! Lena is now off the force and working for campus security when a round of deaths happen at the university. Slaughter sites such faceted characters that you never can truly love or hate any of them. You will be shocked several times through and appreciate every gasp. Read on my friends.
A not very good idea, terribly told.
Yet another author who makes me wonder how people get published.
Yet another author who makes me wonder how people get published.
I still enjoyed the writing style of this one but I just couldn’t connect to the story. Lena’s character just annoys me. I know the premise is that she’s still trying to come to grips with her trauma but I just found it so difficult to believe that she would become someone willing to be with the male character that she does. I found myself wishing she’d be killed and that I wouldn’t have to read any more about her, never a good sign. So plus 2 stars for writing. Minus 3 stars for the story.