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laceyvickers 's review for:
The Silent Wife
by Karin Slaughter
Clearly, I'm all alone on a deserted island as I write this review, because this 10th installment in Karin Slaughter's Will Trent series was just 'meh' for me. Years back, I read the first few books in Slaughter's Grant County series but I absolutely loathed the majority of the characters, enough so that I gave up and walked away from it altogether. Then, someone came along and recommended the Will Trent series. Thankfully, I went for it and this time with only one exception (Angie), I liked the characters much better. So, when the series started intersecting with Grant County, I just learned to live with it and hoped the crossover storylines would be short lived. But, nope. Slaughter just keeps coming back to Grant County.
That aside, I do think if I was reading this one as a stand alone, I might have a more positive opinion. Slaughter is at her best when she has the characters working as a team, trying to solve a crime and this book did have a good crime story to be investigated.
But, I didn't read this as a stand alone, I read it as part of a series. And sometimes these kinds of series' just run their course. There are only so many relationship woes and traumatic circumstances the same old characters can find themselves in before the stories start to feel dull and completely unrealistic. In the case of The Silent Wife, that is the point it reached for me. I'm not saying I'm giving up on the series (the author mentions at the end that she intends to keep it going) but I'll only pick the next one up with the hope that we are done with Grant County and will get to see more of Faith and Amanda, the two characters I've grown to enjoy even more than Will.
That aside, I do think if I was reading this one as a stand alone, I might have a more positive opinion. Slaughter is at her best when she has the characters working as a team, trying to solve a crime and this book did have a good crime story to be investigated.
But, I didn't read this as a stand alone, I read it as part of a series. And sometimes these kinds of series' just run their course. There are only so many relationship woes and traumatic circumstances the same old characters can find themselves in before the stories start to feel dull and completely unrealistic. In the case of The Silent Wife, that is the point it reached for me. I'm not saying I'm giving up on the series (the author mentions at the end that she intends to keep it going) but I'll only pick the next one up with the hope that we are done with Grant County and will get to see more of Faith and Amanda, the two characters I've grown to enjoy even more than Will.