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A review by ccopeland28
Killer Instinct by S.E. Green
3.0
This book has a very interesting concept - a teenage girl who believes that serial killers are born not made. She believes this because she has grown up with an inborn "itch" to kill. She has managed to keep it under control until now. Since she is now feeling the overwhelming need to act on her “Killer Instincts” she has decided to take it in a vigilante direction and channels her hate to those who deserve retribution for their unpunished crimes. So we tag along with Lane as she sits in the local court room - under the premise of being interested in become a lawyer – and this is where she finds her victims – those that are found not guilty of crimes she is sure they actually committed.
Lane is still a teenager and so we also see her trying to be a “regular” girl in high school and interacting with her family. Coincidentally, Lane’s parents are both in the FBI and working on a case involving a serial killer who has been killing one woman every September for the last 14 years. Even more coincidentally, this year the serial killer struck in Lane’s hometown and she is all about tracking down the killer to delve out her own kind of justice.
This book has a lot of unbelievable elements to it that I frequently see in YA books. I don’t want to go off on a rant here, but WHERE ARE THE FREAKING PARENTS of these teenagers?????? Aside from that there are a lot of things that are contrived in order to make the whole story play out.
What I did like is that it is a quick read, there are a lot of red herrings thrown about, and there is a twist at the end that had crossed my mind, but didn’t give it away.
Lane is still a teenager and so we also see her trying to be a “regular” girl in high school and interacting with her family. Coincidentally, Lane’s parents are both in the FBI and working on a case involving a serial killer who has been killing one woman every September for the last 14 years. Even more coincidentally, this year the serial killer struck in Lane’s hometown and she is all about tracking down the killer to delve out her own kind of justice.
This book has a lot of unbelievable elements to it that I frequently see in YA books. I don’t want to go off on a rant here, but WHERE ARE THE FREAKING PARENTS of these teenagers?????? Aside from that there are a lot of things that are contrived in order to make the whole story play out.
What I did like is that it is a quick read, there are a lot of red herrings thrown about, and there is a twist at the end that had crossed my mind, but didn’t give it away.