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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
I really enjoyed this, read it in one sitting and was gripped by it pretty much the whole time. My main issue was one of the main characters. I really didn’t like him and reading the few instances of his thoughts and feelings was honestly insufferable. I might’ve given this 5 stars if not for him, honestly. I hope the next books in the series might offer some more character development.
Overall, a really good read. Short, fast paced and tense; everything you could possibly want from a crime thriller sort of situation.
This one is definitely not a book for the squeamish. There's blood, guts and post mortems all over the shop and some of it is the type of thing that I need to read with my eyes closed.
Underneath all the icky stuff - because of all the icky stuff - there's a pretty good story about killings and rapes in small town Georgia (though Georgia's idea of a small town and mine seem to be different in size, this seemed like a rather large town to me). This is the first in the series and Slaughter (great name for a crime writer I think, she couldn't have gone in for cozies could she?) introduces an interesting cast. I'm interested to see how many of the main characters play a big role in book two because some of them barely make it out of book one. This is, for a large part, a story based in the characters pasts and I think it's told very well. For a first book the clues are obscured rather well. I was racing through pages to get past the squeamish stuff and it did help that I wasn't stopping to think too much about the little details as they came along.
On the whole though it's a good book, the violence is central to the plot and not just thrown in for effect, I'm looking forward to finding out what happens next.
🔅 I loved the storyline, I thought it was completely gripping and really kept me engaged throughout, the writing was fast paced and just all around really interesting.
🔅 I really enjoyed the characters and the central roles that they play to the storyline- I feel this allowed all of the police work to be done in a really clever way.
🔅 I loved how multi-layered this story was and how it focussed on loads of different elements at once- something I don't often find to be the case with thrillers
<b>What didn't work as well for me</b>
🔅 This book is graphic and descriptive and at times it did just feel a little bit much- I would definitely stay away from this one if sexual assault is a triggering topic for you.
🔅 I thought it was quite predictable in terms of who was committing the crimes although the why was definitely something I didn't see coming until much later in the story which really kept the air of suspense.