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rubie_reads's review against another edition
WoW! WoW! WoW!
I read this book in two days. Its that good!
Definitely not what I thought this was going to be!
But in such a good way!
Yes this story it dark, twisted with some major trigger warnings...
But damn if this didn't suck me right in and had me up all night reading!
Lili has a way that had me totally hooked to these pages.
And honestly I don't know how to best describe this book. Just read it!
If you don't mind strong language, sex and some darkness!
It's a wild ride, gripping, messed up, controlling and it's sad as hell... But this was one I couldn't put down!
I can't Thank Level 4 Press enough for this advanced ebook!
NetGalley thank you
And Lili Saint Germain you're writing was great!
I read this book in two days. Its that good!
Definitely not what I thought this was going to be!
But in such a good way!
Yes this story it dark, twisted with some major trigger warnings...
But damn if this didn't suck me right in and had me up all night reading!
Lili has a way that had me totally hooked to these pages.
And honestly I don't know how to best describe this book. Just read it!
If you don't mind strong language, sex and some darkness!
It's a wild ride, gripping, messed up, controlling and it's sad as hell... But this was one I couldn't put down!
I can't Thank Level 4 Press enough for this advanced ebook!
NetGalley thank you
And Lili Saint Germain you're writing was great!
srivalli's review against another edition
4.0
4.3 Stars
One Liner: Twisted as hell. Not for the fainthearted.
TW:
Small towns may look perfect from the outside but are full of secrets no one wants to reveal. Nine years ago, a dead body was found in the well on Leo’s property. The killer is never caught. Soon, Leo and Cassie, two teenagers in love, get separated when Leo ends up in an accident. The event puts him in prison and away from the only girl he has ever loved.
Cassie has lost everything that night but continues to exist with neither hope nor any desire to make her life better. Leo comes back to the town and is on parole when another girl goes missing.
Cassie's stepdad is the town’s sheriff and is determined to keep Leo away from Cassie in one way or another. After what seems like an eternity, Cassie realizes that she needs to take control of her life. That means she has to find the missing girl and solve the past case.
But what does it do to her? Where will her quest for truth lead her?
The book is 360 pages long and goes by super quick. I finished it two days (appx. 3+ hours). The chapters are short and rush by. The narration slows down around 20-40% and picks up pace again.
The POV shifts between Cassie and Leo most of the time, with another third POV towards the end. The storyline goes back and forth a little, but it’s all neatly planned. There’s no confusion anywhere.
Events are revealed one after another, and we realize things aren’t what they are. The characters get darker and more twisted, except for (not saying). Most of them are bad. That’s it. No redeeming arc or even a single likable attribute.
The dark mood sustains throughout. There is no respite or a breather at any point. The story keeps pushing worse stuff as we turn the pages.
Cassie has a great arc and is the major narrator of the book. She starts as a hopeless alcoholic. Her actual personality comes out only towards the end, and we see what Cassie is capable of.
Coming to the rest of the story, there were a few things left loose. That dimmed the story’s appeal a wee bit. That shouldn’t stop you from picking this one, though.
To sum up, The Field of Wrongdoing is twisted, messed up, dark, and even suffocating at times. This one is no causal read.
Thank you, NetGalley and Level 4 Press, for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions expressed are my own.
#TheFieldofWrongdoing #NetGalley
One Liner: Twisted as hell. Not for the fainthearted.
TW:
Spoiler
Rape, Attempted suicide, animal death, incest.Small towns may look perfect from the outside but are full of secrets no one wants to reveal. Nine years ago, a dead body was found in the well on Leo’s property. The killer is never caught. Soon, Leo and Cassie, two teenagers in love, get separated when Leo ends up in an accident. The event puts him in prison and away from the only girl he has ever loved.
Cassie has lost everything that night but continues to exist with neither hope nor any desire to make her life better. Leo comes back to the town and is on parole when another girl goes missing.
Cassie's stepdad is the town’s sheriff and is determined to keep Leo away from Cassie in one way or another. After what seems like an eternity, Cassie realizes that she needs to take control of her life. That means she has to find the missing girl and solve the past case.
But what does it do to her? Where will her quest for truth lead her?
The book is 360 pages long and goes by super quick. I finished it two days (appx. 3+ hours). The chapters are short and rush by. The narration slows down around 20-40% and picks up pace again.
The POV shifts between Cassie and Leo most of the time, with another third POV towards the end. The storyline goes back and forth a little, but it’s all neatly planned. There’s no confusion anywhere.
Events are revealed one after another, and we realize things aren’t what they are. The characters get darker and more twisted, except for (not saying). Most of them are bad. That’s it. No redeeming arc or even a single likable attribute.
The dark mood sustains throughout. There is no respite or a breather at any point. The story keeps pushing worse stuff as we turn the pages.
Cassie has a great arc and is the major narrator of the book. She starts as a hopeless alcoholic. Her actual personality comes out only towards the end, and we see what Cassie is capable of.
Coming to the rest of the story, there were a few things left loose. That dimmed the story’s appeal a wee bit. That shouldn’t stop you from picking this one, though.
To sum up, The Field of Wrongdoing is twisted, messed up, dark, and even suffocating at times. This one is no causal read.
Thank you, NetGalley and Level 4 Press, for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions expressed are my own.
#TheFieldofWrongdoing #NetGalley
ddemille29's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
eleellis's review against another edition
4.0
The Field of Wrongdoing by Lili St. Germain is a darkly graphic standalone crime thriller taking place over a period of years and is based in Gun Creek, a small town in northern Nevada. The novel is told by different alternating narrators and a handful of flashbacks.
Some readers may be dissuaded from reading the novel when learning of the graphic nature of the novel, in both violence and sexual depictions, however, the descriptions, while quite raw and explicit, are not grossly exploitive or purely done for juvenile titillation. Such depictions are clearly for the purpose of propelling this violent and destructive story forward and in a way to create emotive responses from the reader.
The story opens nine years in the past when Leo and Cassie are late teenagers in love, with the two of them spending time in Leo’s home, a refurbished Conex container. Leo’s drug-addicted mother lives in a nearby dilapidated trailer, with both of them being squatters on public land. After Leo discovers a corpse in a nearby well (which includes a dark Coen Brothers-esque opening), suspicion of murder falls upon Leo. The suspicion grows even after he is sent to prison for an unrelated crime and incident that causes Leo and Cassie to separate.
The novel then moves years forward and finds Leo released from prison and returning to his Conex container. Soon, a young teenage girl becomes missing and Leo, still a suspect of the corpse found in his well, again falls under suspicion.
For reasons other than just the search for the missing girl, Leo has also found himself under the close and vengeful watch of the sheriff, a man with secrets of his own, and who also happens to be the stepfather to Leo’s former girlfriend, Cassie.
Almost every character in The Field of Wrongdoing possesses secrets that keep the reader guessing how the story will end and who did what and why.
The writing in this novel is spare enough to still create descriptive mental imagery while not being overwhelmingly wordy, which is found too often in today’s current fiction. In the stark language used in the novel, just as with the graphic scenes, the writer is quite adept at when to intricately describe a scene in contrast to being very limited in the wording in others – in other words, she knows exactly when less is more and when more is needed.
Lili St. Germain also creates characters with depth and different layers, oftentimes being contradictory to the more discernable attributes of characters which allows the characters to be more three-dimensional rather than paper-thin.
The Field of Wrongdoing is highly recommended to those fond of dark thrillers and authors such as Mo Hayder, Jussi Adler Olsen, and the writing duo Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom.
The Field of Wrongdoing is set for release on October 12, 2021.
Netgalley provided an ARC of this novel for the promise of a fair review.
This review was originally published at MysteryandSuspense.com.
chelseabrianna's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
reading_with_2_book_lovers's review against another edition
5.0
"You’re not Gun Shy, are you?"
holy hell! what did I just read?
In true Lili Saint Germain style you don't know what to expect with one of her books and she didn't disappoint this time.
First off this is not a Romance or even a Dark Romance book thisis a Psychological Thriller that will keep you guessing right till the last page!
"It's not every morning you drink dead girl juice"
Cassie, Leo and Damon are amazing main characters with the secondary characters really having meaning and depth into this story.
"Going mad doesn't happen all at once, it's a process"
this is a must read Saint Germain book!
"This is not a fairytale and there is no happy ending, no prince charming to ride in on his horse and save me. It's just me and my monster, just us in our house built out of bones and lies"
holy hell! what did I just read?
In true Lili Saint Germain style you don't know what to expect with one of her books and she didn't disappoint this time.
First off this is not a Romance or even a Dark Romance book thisis a Psychological Thriller that will keep you guessing right till the last page!
"It's not every morning you drink dead girl juice"
Cassie, Leo and Damon are amazing main characters with the secondary characters really having meaning and depth into this story.
"Going mad doesn't happen all at once, it's a process"
this is a must read Saint Germain book!
"This is not a fairytale and there is no happy ending, no prince charming to ride in on his horse and save me. It's just me and my monster, just us in our house built out of bones and lies"
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