so intriguing, many twists!

this was a great book. so many plot twists, enthralling to the last word! definitely recommend

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Very enjoyable

I really enjoyed this book and found the storyline kept my interest to the end. I look forward to the next book to learn more about the characters.

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Utterly Absurd...

Infantile C grade cop movie spudge. I keep waiting for Michael Ironside to walk in and growl: 'What's da connection.'
Hey, that would probly've improved it.
This here is what you call a slop of unoriginal narrative served with a side order of cardboard characterisations, and over-seasoned with bland cliches and wince-inducing stereotypes.
I mean, the killer is called: "the Strangling Undertaker" for !&@#*$ sake.
How's about a little sample:
"When Tatum saw Lieutenant Samuel Martinez from the Chicago PD, he was quite taken with the man's mustache. He shook his hand, wondering how the mustache would look on his own face. It was well groomed and thick, with a Tom Selleckish style, giving Martinez's mouth an aura of importance... [his MOUTH has an aura of importance? For pity's sake!]
Tatum suspected that if he tried the same face decor, he'd look like a pervy literature professor who slept with his students. Some mustaches belonged on other people's faces. So far, Tatum had failed to find one that belonged on his own."
This, by the way, is Tatum the FBI agent, whose cat, Freckle, he has just left in the care of his cocaine-purchasing Grandpa, along with strict orders the cat is to be kept well away from the fish he's just been given by his FBI superior, Mancuso.
'But I'm warning you,' says Mancuso, after promising Tatum the single fish from her aquarium. 'He's a bastard'.
And while these morons are knocking heads and chatting about Freckle the Cat, the Bastard Fish, Cocaine Grandpa and Mustache Sam, the Strangling Undertaker is literally in the process of striking again...
Yeah. Not exactly a literary colossus.
The reader is actually ok, but even good reading can't stop this giant clanking honk-box from reeling through your brain like nails down a chalkboard.
Safe to say I'll be returning this and never EVER buying another. I would highly recommend you Swerve Awayyyyyy.

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A Decent Thriller

This was a good book, I enjoyed myself for the most part but there were some issues.

The premise was interesting and the actual triller plot line was compelling. I was intrigued enough by the serial killer himself and the hunt for him to keep reading the book till the end. I really loved that we got the killers POV as well as one of the victims POVs. It would have been even better if we were able to get a few more scenes of the serial killer and one more of his victims just to give it that extra chilling feel.

What I didn’t care for was Zoe and her past time line. Every time we went back to 1997, I didn’t care. I just wanted to go back to the present and the killings that were happening now. I found Zoe both in the past and present so annoying, and I got really tired of her POV real quickly. She just seemed so stupid for someone who is meant to be a profiler and pretty damn smart. Some of her choices just left me baffled and I kept thinking this book would be so much better without her.

I like Tatum, though he isn’t a new favourite character, he grew on me a lot through the book and I found him very enjoyable by the end. His ability to get on the nerves of nearly everyone he meets was funny and his grandpa and cat Freckle were the highlight of this story.

Yes I will admit that I did enjoy Tatum and Zoe’s dynamic once they finally started working together, but it was so late in the book that it didn’t do much to change my mind on Zoe.

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