lackof_shelf_control 's review for:

The Summer Children by Dot Hutchison

3.0

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I LOVED the first book in this series. It was truly haunting and has stayed with me like i just read it yesterday. The second book was good and had some of the similar elements to the first. This book, the third in the series, didn’t have the same vibe to it. This book felt more like it was about the agent’s life and less about the horrible crimes. The crimes against the children felt like the subplot and in both the first two books it was the opposite- the crime was the focal point and the agents were the subplot. Although i enjoyed learning backstory on Mercedes, it didn’t have me on the edge of my seat because of how spread out the horrific parts were. Will i read the fourth book ? Yes, but I’m not too hopeful after this one. It’s not a bad book i just had different expectations based on the previous books in the series.