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Don't Lie to Me
by Willow Rose
This was a fast read, but was just too unbelievable.
Eva Rae is supposed to be an experienced FBI agent but acts like she has no experience and doesn’t know police protocols. She goes busting into one of the suspect’s homes without a warrant and just apologizes afterward, but is allowed to keep doing whatever she wants. She goes around asking questions and inserting herself into the investigation even before she’s asked to consult. She doesn't behave like a seasoned law enforcement agent.
She’s also a terrible parent. She’s going through a divorce and has moved her kids across the country to start over. Her ex-husband was the primary caretaker so there’s some leeway there because she wasn’t as involved with the day to day running of her children’s lives, but she knows absolutely nothing about them. Even when they tell her things she can’t be bothered to remember because she’s so focused on the crimes instead. There’s a killer out there targeting children of divorce and half the time she doesn’t know where her own children are. She gets mad at her daughter for getting in a stranger's car but doesn't take any responsibility herself for forgetting about her daughter's event and not answering the multiple calls and texts from her child. There were a lot of times I wanted to reach through the book and shake her.
The killer was a surprise, but that was more because there was nothing in the story that would have led us to them. There were clues that led us to some of the other suspects, but nothing that pointed to the actual killer. We were given a description of a suspect as well as the car they drove, but those were kind of clues in a void because we weren't given a description of the killer when they were introduced to us in the story, nor were we given any hint about what kind of car they drove. It just seemed like an easy way out for the author.
There were also some twists that played a big role in the story that weren’t directly related to the crimes and a budding relationship between Eva Rae and an old flame. There were just a lot of things thrown into the story. Too much.
Eva Rae is supposed to be an experienced FBI agent but acts like she has no experience and doesn’t know police protocols. She goes busting into one of the suspect’s homes without a warrant and just apologizes afterward, but is allowed to keep doing whatever she wants. She goes around asking questions and inserting herself into the investigation even before she’s asked to consult. She doesn't behave like a seasoned law enforcement agent.
She’s also a terrible parent. She’s going through a divorce and has moved her kids across the country to start over. Her ex-husband was the primary caretaker so there’s some leeway there because she wasn’t as involved with the day to day running of her children’s lives, but she knows absolutely nothing about them. Even when they tell her things she can’t be bothered to remember because she’s so focused on the crimes instead. There’s a killer out there targeting children of divorce and half the time she doesn’t know where her own children are. She gets mad at her daughter for getting in a stranger's car but doesn't take any responsibility herself for forgetting about her daughter's event and not answering the multiple calls and texts from her child. There were a lot of times I wanted to reach through the book and shake her.
The killer was a surprise, but that was more because there was nothing in the story that would have led us to them. There were clues that led us to some of the other suspects, but nothing that pointed to the actual killer. We were given a description of a suspect as well as the car they drove, but those were kind of clues in a void because we weren't given a description of the killer when they were introduced to us in the story, nor were we given any hint about what kind of car they drove. It just seemed like an easy way out for the author.
There were also some twists that played a big role in the story that weren’t directly related to the crimes and a budding relationship between Eva Rae and an old flame. There were just a lot of things thrown into the story. Too much.