Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

SOME SPOILERS This is my first time reading Cheryl Bradshaw and it will be my last. There is absolutely no depth to the plot-line of this book. Th characters are all one dimensional, even Sloane, the protagonist who is supposedly a tough PI who always gets the bad guy. There was no need to kill off Cade's daughter but seemed designed to lead us to think it had nothing to do with Sloane, but instead revolved around the secrets the daughter had kept from her father. Since the book is not about Cade and his daughter, the title is a total misnomer--and it doesn't fit with the final identification of the killer either, so what's up with that? People associated, even tangentially, with Sloane start getting shot, and she finally decides it must have something to do with her. I didn't see any good PI work done by Sloane, not even mediocre sleuthing. Bradshaw keeps all of the other people who are shot alive, so it doesn't make sense to kill the daughter for a book title for a novel that has nothing to do with Gone Daddy Gone Sloane doesn't seem to get along with anyone she worked with in the past in Utah, yet they are the final reason Sloane is saved. Never having read any previous Sloane books, I was not aware of any of her relationships to Maddie, her grandmother, etc. and yet they were thrown into the plot at various times as though we knew their roles and associations. It was definitely not a stand alone novel and it would have been easy to make it so. Instead, it was incredibly rushed and the writing was something that would appeal to YA, not dedicated thriller readers. I read the entire book in less than 3 hours which to me means there was nothing concrete or thought provoking going on. The ending was exceptionally rushed and the last chapter was slammed together to show us who survived Logan's crime spree. There was no logic at all that I could see. You would certainly have shared your past with someone you planned to marry and Cade appears to recuperate from a serious head would in no time and have no residual issues with the fact that his daughter was slaughtered because of his girlfriend. In fact, he seems to have already gotten over her death in no time. This book seemed to brush the tops of all the issues and could have had potential but failed miserably. This will be my last Bradshaw novel. I can't remember the last time I read something this shallow. And Sloane is supposed to be a tough strong woman--none of that came across in this installment. even if I had read the first 6 books in the series, it would not have made this any better reading. Don't waste your time or money, there are so many good thrillers out there.