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tense
fast-paced
This’ll be my last book by Terri Blackstock.
To be fair, it was a good run. She’d been one of my favorite authors for years. Even when the faith based messages were a bit too on the nose (and I’m a Christian), she still managed to write a captivating suspense thriller, and that made up for it.
That said, I didn’t enjoy Aftermath as much as I thought I would. Frankly, although the premise was pretty decent, it wasn’t really much of a thriller as it was a whodunit. I figured out the twist pretty quickly, and once it was revealed I ultimately wished it’d been done a different way.
The most disappointing aspect of this book was the Taylor storyline. She added nothing to the story except for the fact that she was a victim of the bombing, but it felt as though her PTSD/trauma/mental illness was handled in almost a cartoonish way. That she suddenly resolved to murder Dustin in order to get revenge and the only thing that stopped her from doing so was the adverse effects from her new medication fell super flat. It also kind of felt like a bad stereotype, in that people who suffer from intrusive thoughts will go 0-100 and suddenly want to murder someone as a result.
From a story standpoint, it overall didn’t feel very suspenseful or have that typical thriller feel that Blackstock usually employs in her stories. Wouldn’t recommend.
To be fair, it was a good run. She’d been one of my favorite authors for years. Even when the faith based messages were a bit too on the nose (and I’m a Christian), she still managed to write a captivating suspense thriller, and that made up for it.
That said, I didn’t enjoy Aftermath as much as I thought I would. Frankly, although the premise was pretty decent, it wasn’t really much of a thriller as it was a whodunit. I figured out the twist pretty quickly, and once it was revealed I ultimately wished it’d been done a different way.
The most disappointing aspect of this book was the Taylor storyline. She added nothing to the story except for the fact that she was a victim of the bombing, but it felt as though her PTSD/trauma/mental illness was handled in almost a cartoonish way. That she suddenly resolved to murder Dustin in order to get revenge and the only thing that stopped her from doing so was the adverse effects from her new medication fell super flat. It also kind of felt like a bad stereotype, in that people who suffer from intrusive thoughts will go 0-100 and suddenly want to murder someone as a result.
From a story standpoint, it overall didn’t feel very suspenseful or have that typical thriller feel that Blackstock usually employs in her stories. Wouldn’t recommend.