Nadine (23dollars) - reviewed on 6/14/2017 + 432 more book reviews

I loved Tami Hoag's The 9th Girl, but this one was disappointing in the end.

At first The Bitter Season starts off interestingly enough with Kovac and Liska now working separately on different cases. Kovac's still working homicide with a new partner; and being a single mother, Liska wants to be home more to raise her teenage sons, so she's working cold cases...and it really felt like this story point was on the repetitive side. We get it: Nikki's working cold cases now because her sons need her to be home more.

So the book essentially takes you step-by-step through these two investigations as Kovac and Liska slowly make their way to discovering whodunnit. Lots of gruesome, over-the-top bloody scenes later, the reveals happen, and it just didn't fly with me. It was too contrived vs. clever. And I much prefer clever. C+

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