I really wanted to like this - it's a Karin Slaughter for fricks sake.....but it just left me feeling flat. The beginning felt like a real slog to get through - I really had to force myself to plough on, rather than being hooked from the start. The premise is great, and the plot itself is very clever....but it's let down by a baddie who's such a caricature it's like a composite of all the characteristics that make a baddie - and you just know he's never going to get away with it and our heroine and her understanding ex (Yup - tick off that cliche box) and moody teen are ever really in danger.
This really dragged and I do wonder if somewhere there's still an editor biting their lip, trying to pluck up courage to tell Slaughter that maybe, I mean possibly, some of like....well all that repetition could maybe be cut down - you know like the backstory being explained to everyone over and over again, and all that lengthy exposition on how addicts connive and score drugs - it just went on and on, and slowed the pace down to a snails crawl.
Not that this matters a bit because - well it's Slaughter - people will buy it and love it. Not me though.
This really dragged and I do wonder if somewhere there's still an editor biting their lip, trying to pluck up courage to tell Slaughter that maybe, I mean possibly, some of like....well all that repetition could maybe be cut down - you know like the backstory being explained to everyone over and over again, and all that lengthy exposition on how addicts connive and score drugs - it just went on and on, and slowed the pace down to a snails crawl.
Not that this matters a bit because - well it's Slaughter - people will buy it and love it. Not me though.