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A review by deepwinterodd
Dead Scared by Sharon Bolton
2.0
I... am confused.
What happened to Lacey between [b:If Snow Hadn't Fallen|17137551|If Snow Hadn't Fallen (Lacey Flint, #1.5)|S.J. Bolton|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1356026216s/17137551.jpg|23539543] and this book? What happened to everything that happened in [b:Now You See Me|9783200|Now You See Me (Lacey Flint, #1)|S.J. Bolton|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1407439658s/9783200.jpg|14673027]? What happened to that entire world and this series?
Lacey is still Lacey in this book, and that's the story's redeeming characteristic. She's still tough, cynical, smart and distrustful, only she's now apparently in full-on love with Mark Joesbury, which is why I am writing this review from a relaxing position in the middle of a road, what with their romance being even less believable and more ridiculous this time around. He is now apparently in love with her too and making shmoopy noises in his hotel room while she is undercover.
Oh how their romance makes me long for the days of [b:Romeo and Juliet|18135|Romeo and Juliet|William Shakespeare|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327872146s/18135.jpg|3349450].
Anyway, that nonsense is going on while Lacey is undercover at Cambridge, investigating a rash of suicides, which, if you've been paying attention, is perilously close to the events referenced in the plot of [b:The Likeness|1914973|The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)|Tana French|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348934952s/1914973.jpg|6504351] only much, much ickier.
The truth of what's happening to these girls who kill themselves is painfully obvious around the 75th page, and while there's a smattering of the lovely onion-like plotting from the first two books, it all devolves into Lacey's love life and then gratuitous torturing of the protagonist.
Also: OY, the plotholes.
So many of them, no explanation for, ending COMPLETELY ridiculous and leading to my current prone position in a road, and also totally unsatisfying.
Two stars because the gaslighting sections are creepy and functional. But dassit.
What happened to Lacey between [b:If Snow Hadn't Fallen|17137551|If Snow Hadn't Fallen (Lacey Flint, #1.5)|S.J. Bolton|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1356026216s/17137551.jpg|23539543] and this book? What happened to everything that happened in [b:Now You See Me|9783200|Now You See Me (Lacey Flint, #1)|S.J. Bolton|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1407439658s/9783200.jpg|14673027]? What happened to that entire world and this series?
Lacey is still Lacey in this book, and that's the story's redeeming characteristic. She's still tough, cynical, smart and distrustful, only she's now apparently in full-on love with Mark Joesbury, which is why I am writing this review from a relaxing position in the middle of a road, what with their romance being even less believable and more ridiculous this time around. He is now apparently in love with her too and making shmoopy noises in his hotel room while she is undercover.
Oh how their romance makes me long for the days of [b:Romeo and Juliet|18135|Romeo and Juliet|William Shakespeare|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327872146s/18135.jpg|3349450].
Anyway, that nonsense is going on while Lacey is undercover at Cambridge, investigating a rash of suicides, which, if you've been paying attention, is perilously close to the events referenced in the plot of [b:The Likeness|1914973|The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)|Tana French|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348934952s/1914973.jpg|6504351] only much, much ickier.
The truth of what's happening to these girls who kill themselves is painfully obvious around the 75th page, and while there's a smattering of the lovely onion-like plotting from the first two books, it all devolves into Lacey's love life and then gratuitous torturing of the protagonist.
Also: OY, the plotholes.
So many of them, no explanation for, ending COMPLETELY ridiculous and leading to my current prone position in a road, and also totally unsatisfying.
Two stars because the gaslighting sections are creepy and functional. But dassit.