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4.17 AVERAGE
4.17 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Karin Slaughter has written 2 series of crime novels, the "Grant County" series, staring police chief Jeffrey Toliver, detective Lena Adams, and medical examiner Sara Linton. After 6 books, she started the "Will Trent" series, focusing more on the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) investigator Will Trent, with Grant County characters appearing pretty regularly.
In this book, there's a prison riot, and the GBI step in to investigate the murder that occurs during the chaos. While there, interviewing inmates, they uncover a potential cover up in Grant County (a prisoner claims innocence, and will only pass on the information he knows if they investigate his case), which pushes them back into the potentially murky doings of Toliver, Adams, and Linton.
In the Grant County books, Toliver has to balance the saintly Linton with the... rule shaver(?) Adams. Usually Slaughter leaves it to the reader to decide on which side they fall. I won't lie, I'm more of an Adams fan. She's a hot mess much of the time, but she's... a more recognisable human being than the saintly Linton. In this book, however, Slaughter tries hard to paint Adams in a bad light (she presented as incompetent, stupid, or crooked), which infuriated me no end.
If you can get over how she's treated, you'll probably like the book more than I did.
In this book, there's a prison riot, and the GBI step in to investigate the murder that occurs during the chaos. While there, interviewing inmates, they uncover a potential cover up in Grant County (a prisoner claims innocence, and will only pass on the information he knows if they investigate his case), which pushes them back into the potentially murky doings of Toliver, Adams, and Linton.
In the Grant County books, Toliver has to balance the saintly Linton with the... rule shaver(?) Adams. Usually Slaughter leaves it to the reader to decide on which side they fall. I won't lie, I'm more of an Adams fan. She's a hot mess much of the time, but she's... a more recognisable human being than the saintly Linton. In this book, however, Slaughter tries hard to paint Adams in a bad light (she presented as incompetent, stupid, or crooked), which infuriated me no end.
If you can get over how she's treated, you'll probably like the book more than I did.
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-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:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
There were too many characters and I couldn’t keep up. I think if I had read the will Trent books before this one it might have been easier to keep up with everyone.
dark
mysterious
tense