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Plot and characters come together like sour cream and jelly
This book could have been clever, (where was the editor?) but fell far too short and landed in the realm of unbelieveable and not true to the characters created. Spoiler alert:
The premise is what pulled me in. A woman married to a serial killer....the aftermath of what that might look like for her? The book isn't poorly written, just poorly plotted, especially if one considers the supposed personalities and traits of the characters. 9 years of marriage and a wife never goes into the attached garage. Hmmmm, hard to buy. Then after being terrorized by online hate groups she blindly turns to one of those haters that says he has had a change of heart and he will help her? Then we are to believe her character has become a bit paranoid about safety and ultra prepared yet she continues to put her faith blindly in that same person? When it finally dawns on her that her serial killer ex husband knows her address and phone # she never once questions the hate fanatic turned helper as the source? It was all just highly unbelievable but could have been much more interesting with a rethinking of the plot.
For it to end on a cliffhanger....the ex escaping prison on the night her kids are abducted, well that turned this novel into amatuer story hour. It had the potential to be fantastic but the far reaching mistake of plot not being in sync with the development of the characters and the traits they were written to have possessed throws the reader out of the story so many times throughout the book.
June 2017 · Kindle Store · verified purchase