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A review by cindy_f
Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay
4.0
Every Last Fear is an excellent debut, and shouldn’t be missed.
I won’t get too much into the synopsis but I’m not sure how to give it justice without a brief one. I liked this mystery thriller. It’s really a story about two tragedies that happen to the Pine family. Matt is a NYU student who gets news that his family died in Mexico of an apparent gas leak. He then breaks the news to his other brother Danny, who is serving a life sentence at a Penitentiary for murdering his girlfriend. We briefly get the police interrogation of his confession that landed him in prison, but in real life, a forced confession can be thrown out if he had a good lawyer. But this was a huge case, as we also get snippets of a crime documentary that was made.
We get POVs from Matt and FBI Agent Keller in present time. We also hear from Matt’s family members Evan, Olivia, and Maggie in the “before” timeline. It’s pretty fast-paced and thrilling as the alternating chapters feed us little bits of drama and twists. It’s very suspenseful and a real page-turner without any major unrealistic plot lines. Well, maybe one- a weird tornado warning in the middle of a funeral. I guess it’s the Midwest, tornados happen but I found it an unusual distraction.
I won’t get too much into the synopsis but I’m not sure how to give it justice without a brief one. I liked this mystery thriller. It’s really a story about two tragedies that happen to the Pine family. Matt is a NYU student who gets news that his family died in Mexico of an apparent gas leak. He then breaks the news to his other brother Danny, who is serving a life sentence at a Penitentiary for murdering his girlfriend. We briefly get the police interrogation of his confession that landed him in prison, but in real life, a forced confession can be thrown out if he had a good lawyer. But this was a huge case, as we also get snippets of a crime documentary that was made.
We get POVs from Matt and FBI Agent Keller in present time. We also hear from Matt’s family members Evan, Olivia, and Maggie in the “before” timeline. It’s pretty fast-paced and thrilling as the alternating chapters feed us little bits of drama and twists. It’s very suspenseful and a real page-turner without any major unrealistic plot lines. Well, maybe one- a weird tornado warning in the middle of a funeral. I guess it’s the Midwest, tornados happen but I found it an unusual distraction.