Amy R. (AmyMarie) - , reviewed on + 46 more book reviews
This book started out with a bang, but became rather tedious by the end.
First off, the chapters are super short, jumping constantly from one point of view to another. This keeps the book moving, but makes it incredibly disjointed.
As the book progressed, I began to feel like the author was doing a whole lot of telling, but very little showing. There would be whole chapters that were just a summary of what somebody was doing, but with very little action or dialog.
I also began to notice timeline discrepancies. Days and days would pass for the victims, but it seemed that no time at all had passed for the police who were hunting the killer.
As seems to be common for the genre, the police are incompetent morons, constantly doing things that make no sense. Why not show the picture of the prime suspect to the surviving victim who supposedly spent hours with the killer before her imprisonment? Why rush off ALONE to face the killer rather than calling for backup? Give me a break.
Lastly, I felt the characterization was incredibly heavy-handed. Helen is just SOOOO ridiculously tough. The whole angle with her visits to the Dom felt forced. Her back-and-forth over her feelings for Mark just made her come across as a flake. And don't even get me started on the ham-fisted, predictable backstory for the poor, abused killer. I honestly don't think you could squeeze one more overused trope into this book.
First off, the chapters are super short, jumping constantly from one point of view to another. This keeps the book moving, but makes it incredibly disjointed.
As the book progressed, I began to feel like the author was doing a whole lot of telling, but very little showing. There would be whole chapters that were just a summary of what somebody was doing, but with very little action or dialog.
I also began to notice timeline discrepancies. Days and days would pass for the victims, but it seemed that no time at all had passed for the police who were hunting the killer.
As seems to be common for the genre, the police are incompetent morons, constantly doing things that make no sense. Why not show the picture of the prime suspect to the surviving victim who supposedly spent hours with the killer before her imprisonment? Why rush off ALONE to face the killer rather than calling for backup? Give me a break.
Lastly, I felt the characterization was incredibly heavy-handed. Helen is just SOOOO ridiculously tough. The whole angle with her visits to the Dom felt forced. Her back-and-forth over her feelings for Mark just made her come across as a flake. And don't even get me started on the ham-fisted, predictable backstory for the poor, abused killer. I honestly don't think you could squeeze one more overused trope into this book.
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