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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
I didn't realize that this was a series when I read it, but I definitely enjoyed the story and it didn't seem to suffer from my not knowing the back story. Perhaps I would have found it to be even more enjoyable if I read the previous five volumes.
The story was told very well through the dual narrators of Piper and Joe. Her scenes really show the fear that she is experiencing and both the horror and the boredom of being trapped in a room under someone else's control. In this novel, Joe is likable enough, but his character doesn't just leap off the page and demand that you love him. The pieces of the story come together nicely though and I was never bored.
The story was told very well through the dual narrators of Piper and Joe. Her scenes really show the fear that she is experiencing and both the horror and the boredom of being trapped in a room under someone else's control. In this novel, Joe is likable enough, but his character doesn't just leap off the page and demand that you love him. The pieces of the story come together nicely though and I was never bored.
The suspense was slow going all the way till about 85% into the book. I have not read this author before and I don't think this will deter me from reading more. But I just believe it took a long while to get into the meat-and-potatoes of this one. I did like the psychological parts, how Joe profiles the suspects. It was interesting coming from his POV, he being a psychologist. Some things in this book were quite disturbing and I think those parts gave the story more merit into the psyche behind the psycho. But it was just too subtle to be believable in the end.
So now my mind will take a rest from the cray-cray. Rainbows and multicolored ponies? Hmmm, perhaps.
So now my mind will take a rest from the cray-cray. Rainbows and multicolored ponies? Hmmm, perhaps.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Sydney’s award-winning author, Michael Robotham delivers a chilling spine tingling, suspenseful, crime psychological thriller, leaving you holding your breath, with his (Joseph O'Loughlin #6) Say You’re Sorry.
Two young girls from a small English village disappear after a local Bingham fair on the last weekend of the summer holidays. The two girls are best friends: Piper Hadley and Tash McBain, known as the The Bingham Girls, after a long investigation with no leads.
Three years after their disappearance, a couple is brutally murdered in their farmhouse in a terrible blizzard and psychologist Joe O’Loughlin was asked to help profile their suspect, a troubled young man, who is hearing voices and talks to a brother who isn’t there and hands with burns.
Ironically, Joe has discovered the farmhouse was where Tash had lived with her family three years earlier. Tash was very street smart (not so much book smart), flirty, sexy, beautiful and promiscuous and Piper is quite the opposite, as quiet, likes to write, and athletic. The girls come from different backgrounds.
Tash, lower middle class troubled family attending a prestigious private school on a scholarship; whereas, Piper’s former model mother and wealthy banker family lived in a classy upscale neighborhood. After three long years of dead end leads, the police considered the girls runaways.
When the police ask for Joe’s help in solving the double murder, another young woman’s body is found frozen in a nearby lake. Are these crimes connected? Joe persuades the police to re-open the girl’s case for a race against time to put together the pieces before the killer strikes again.
Wow, what an emotional and intense psychological thriller, as am still holding my breath!! The cell phone/woods' scene was award-winning. Was glued to my iPod and daring anyone to interrupt me, and if so-- rewinding as did not want to miss a beat. Sean Barrett delivers an excellent performance, as his accent and voice are chilling, matching the tone and suspense with the author, brilliantly.
Joe’s character was well drawn and pulls you in with his troubled personal life with father/daughter relationship, and Parkinson’s as readers will sympathize with him and his situation, while mixed with light humor. I also enjoyed the alternating POV with Piper and Joe, and interaction with friend, ex-cop Vincent Ruiz, who works with him on the complex case—for a gripping page turner.
This was my first book by Robotham, and can be read as a standalone without reading the previous books in the series. However, am so intrigued want to go back and read the previous books. Have already purchased #7 Watching You audiobook and currently reading (thus far, very good). Looking forward to reading Life or Death, coming March, 2015.
Highly recommend to fans of compelling, entertaining, fast paced and intense, suspenseful psychological revenge thrillers. A perfect read to curl up with, for a weekend at a cabin by the fire, with relation to the snow and approaching Christmas holidays in the book.
Judith D. Collins Must Read Books
Two young girls from a small English village disappear after a local Bingham fair on the last weekend of the summer holidays. The two girls are best friends: Piper Hadley and Tash McBain, known as the The Bingham Girls, after a long investigation with no leads.
Three years after their disappearance, a couple is brutally murdered in their farmhouse in a terrible blizzard and psychologist Joe O’Loughlin was asked to help profile their suspect, a troubled young man, who is hearing voices and talks to a brother who isn’t there and hands with burns.
Ironically, Joe has discovered the farmhouse was where Tash had lived with her family three years earlier. Tash was very street smart (not so much book smart), flirty, sexy, beautiful and promiscuous and Piper is quite the opposite, as quiet, likes to write, and athletic. The girls come from different backgrounds.
Tash, lower middle class troubled family attending a prestigious private school on a scholarship; whereas, Piper’s former model mother and wealthy banker family lived in a classy upscale neighborhood. After three long years of dead end leads, the police considered the girls runaways.
When the police ask for Joe’s help in solving the double murder, another young woman’s body is found frozen in a nearby lake. Are these crimes connected? Joe persuades the police to re-open the girl’s case for a race against time to put together the pieces before the killer strikes again.
Wow, what an emotional and intense psychological thriller, as am still holding my breath!! The cell phone/woods' scene was award-winning. Was glued to my iPod and daring anyone to interrupt me, and if so-- rewinding as did not want to miss a beat. Sean Barrett delivers an excellent performance, as his accent and voice are chilling, matching the tone and suspense with the author, brilliantly.
Joe’s character was well drawn and pulls you in with his troubled personal life with father/daughter relationship, and Parkinson’s as readers will sympathize with him and his situation, while mixed with light humor. I also enjoyed the alternating POV with Piper and Joe, and interaction with friend, ex-cop Vincent Ruiz, who works with him on the complex case—for a gripping page turner.
This was my first book by Robotham, and can be read as a standalone without reading the previous books in the series. However, am so intrigued want to go back and read the previous books. Have already purchased #7 Watching You audiobook and currently reading (thus far, very good). Looking forward to reading Life or Death, coming March, 2015.
Highly recommend to fans of compelling, entertaining, fast paced and intense, suspenseful psychological revenge thrillers. A perfect read to curl up with, for a weekend at a cabin by the fire, with relation to the snow and approaching Christmas holidays in the book.
Judith D. Collins Must Read Books
slow-paced
This one was not my cup of tea. I didn't feel the voices of the teenage girls were how they would talk. And the misogyny, victim blaming characters and police officer storyline weren't what my brain needed after recent news events. I also felt the ending was unsatisfying. The guilty party hadn't featured much and the few paragraphs of explanation after almost 500 pages about other characters felt lacking.
This is the first book I've read by Australian crime writer Michael Robotham. I found it very hard to put down - as evidenced by the fact that I read it in two sittings. The main character, Joe O'Loughlin, is a clinical psychologist who assists the police with criminal profiles. He has featured in several of Robotham's previous books, the events of some of which are referred to over the course of this book, but I did not find it a problem to have not read the others previously (nor feel that they are now spoiled for me).
O'Loughlin is asked to consult on a the mental stability of a suspect who has been arrested after the murder of a husband and wife in a remote farmhouse. He begins to suspect that there may be a connection between this case and the disappearance of two teenage girls from the area three years previously. At the same time, one of the missing girls is narrating her story from captivity. It's not the most original plot formula in the world, but it's very well told and holds your attention from the first page through to the last. I enjoyed it very much and will definitely be tracking down other books by this author.
O'Loughlin is asked to consult on a the mental stability of a suspect who has been arrested after the murder of a husband and wife in a remote farmhouse. He begins to suspect that there may be a connection between this case and the disappearance of two teenage girls from the area three years previously. At the same time, one of the missing girls is narrating her story from captivity. It's not the most original plot formula in the world, but it's very well told and holds your attention from the first page through to the last. I enjoyed it very much and will definitely be tracking down other books by this author.
Not one of my favorite type plots, but I love the characters in this series and the ending was tense and well done. Listened to the audio version which was read by Seán Barrett who is always superb.