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A review by karlyo83
Like This, For Ever by Sharon Bolton
4.0
My Rating: 4⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ highly entertaining another great addition!!
Barney Robert’s is 10, he is smart and a little bit weird, but he knows the killer will strike again soon. The victim will be another boy just like him. The body will be drained of blood and left somewhere near the Thames.
London Detectives Dana Tulloch and Mark Joesbury will find no clues. There will be no warning of who is next and no real reason for Barney’s next door neighbour, Lacey Flint to get involved. But no way she can stay away.
Lacey is on leave after a harrowing case struggling with demons of her own and the last thing she needs is to be worried about her kid neighbour, but is she worried about him for the wrong reasons.
So this is my third full length Lacey Flint novel back to back and I am flying through this series with no end in sight. I will say up front… are these novels pieces of artwork, with zero plot holes, zero reason to throw your disbelief into the Thames… absolutely not… but are they entertaining and keep you reading to the very intense end… DEFINITELY!!!
That is what I like about these books, Bolton’s standalone books are meh (well the one I read was) but these are different. They have a grittiness to them that I enjoy. The characters are flawed, and the sexual tension between Lacey and Mark is on fire… I cannot think of a single reason these two shouldn’t get together… except all the reasons that they probably shouldn’t but who cares about those… time to kiss please!!!
Lacey is very flawed, she dives into situations without much regard for her own personal safety, doesn’t think things through, sometimes actively gets in the way of a case… but I like her… I dunno I can’t help it. And in this one she is really going through it. The last case (2nd book) really rattled her and she is questioning if she can even stay on the force.
Lacey isn’t in this book as much… but enough that it still features her. Concerns were raised with me (thank you Leigh) that the kid would be the one fighting/solving the crime, I would like to rest everyone’s mind to ease that, that is not the case… He is very interested in the case and his mates and he make some questionable decisions HOWEVER they are a group of 10 year old boys (and one girl) so lets face it… anyone who has even met a kid knows they are going to get into everything and be curious AND they are always going to make questionable decisions… kids are like that… its the worst
Barney Robert’s is 10, he is smart and a little bit weird, but he knows the killer will strike again soon. The victim will be another boy just like him. The body will be drained of blood and left somewhere near the Thames.
London Detectives Dana Tulloch and Mark Joesbury will find no clues. There will be no warning of who is next and no real reason for Barney’s next door neighbour, Lacey Flint to get involved. But no way she can stay away.
Lacey is on leave after a harrowing case struggling with demons of her own and the last thing she needs is to be worried about her kid neighbour, but is she worried about him for the wrong reasons.
So this is my third full length Lacey Flint novel back to back and I am flying through this series with no end in sight. I will say up front… are these novels pieces of artwork, with zero plot holes, zero reason to throw your disbelief into the Thames… absolutely not… but are they entertaining and keep you reading to the very intense end… DEFINITELY!!!
That is what I like about these books, Bolton’s standalone books are meh (well the one I read was) but these are different. They have a grittiness to them that I enjoy. The characters are flawed, and the sexual tension between Lacey and Mark is on fire… I cannot think of a single reason these two shouldn’t get together… except all the reasons that they probably shouldn’t but who cares about those… time to kiss please!!!
Lacey is very flawed, she dives into situations without much regard for her own personal safety, doesn’t think things through, sometimes actively gets in the way of a case… but I like her… I dunno I can’t help it. And in this one she is really going through it. The last case (2nd book) really rattled her and she is questioning if she can even stay on the force.
Lacey isn’t in this book as much… but enough that it still features her. Concerns were raised with me (thank you Leigh) that the kid would be the one fighting/solving the crime, I would like to rest everyone’s mind to ease that, that is not the case… He is very interested in the case and his mates and he make some questionable decisions HOWEVER they are a group of 10 year old boys (and one girl) so lets face it… anyone who has even met a kid knows they are going to get into everything and be curious AND they are always going to make questionable decisions… kids are like that… its the worst