3.5

Another solid read by Peter Swanson.

After reading other books by this author, I was anticipating another great read. To say I was disappointed by this book would be an understatement. I kept waiting for it to get better..it didn't. My thoughts while reading this were, how can so many awful people be in one book. The ending may have been the only redeeming part of this book, although a little to late.

A bit lackluster compared to his other books.

This book is unhinged and not in a good way. One of the main characters is a pedophile. The R word is used as a description for a character. I finished it out of spite. Perhaps the worst book I will read in 2024.

Another page turner by Peter Swanson packed with characters with skeletons in their closets, and great twists in the plot.

I had to really push myself to get through this, which shouldn’t be the case with a mystery/thriller. I was just so uninterested for a majority of the book. The characters, who felt like they should be complex and fascinating, fell really flat for me.

Oh Peter, you were right on the fence with me and you fell off. I first read his second book, The Kind Worth Killing, and I thought it was pretty good. So I read his first, The Girl with a Clock for a Heart, and was astounded at how amateurish and just bad it was. But if someone can improve that much between books 1 & 2, I was perfectly willing to give book 3, Her Every Fear, a try. Alas, I didn't like the story. But a lot of people did, maybe just my taste. It featured a thrill killer, whose identity is revealed about halfway through the book, so the lack of suspense combined with the fact that I hate thrill killers anyway lost me at that point. Now here comes book 4....and it started off fine. There is hope. I was a little disturbed by the fact that again, there is an early reveal of the potential bad guy, but surely there will be more to the story then that. Not much, unfortunately. Murky motives, a plot device STOLEN FROM BREAKING BAD, you will not convince me that it wasn't unless Peter passes a polygraph swearing he didn't....silly and overly melodramatic climax....a nay vote, I'm afraid.