Published By: HQ
Pages: 384
Released On: 24/10/2024
Newly married, with a loving family surrounding her, everything’s coming up roses for ex-serial killer Rhiannon Lewis, right?
Wrong.
Her husband has just been shot, and the daughter she left behind in the UK is desperately ill. She’s got no choice but to flee the States and return home, back to her roots, where she’s in danger of being recognised and arrested at any moment.
Only nothing is quite as it seems…
With a series of bad choices in front of her, and the authorities right behind, Rhiannon’s in a hell of a hole and she needs to dig herself out of it pronto. But help can come from the most unlikely places. And even more unlikely people…
*****
Thanks to HQ and NetGalley for the advanced copy of this title in return for an honest review.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this series by Skuse. It’s so thrilling, and so unapologetic, it’s fantastic and I never want it to end. But at least we’re getting a TV adaptation of it, that prolongs this universe.
It’s one of my absolute favourite thriller series I’ve ever read and it gets better and better with each book. Whilst I know the story has to end at some point, I feel I could read it forever. This finishes in a satisfying way that if she stopped here you wouldn’t feel short-changed, but there’s definitely scope for further adventures. But it was only after finishing it that I read this is actually the final installment and I’m just not having that. I read a lot of thrillers and in general I really like them, but this is so something of its own that it’s hard to believe something will come along and take its place.
I don’t know what it is about this series that I love so much. It’s dark and dirty and explicit, violent, morbid, and oh so sexy.
I was worried I would be lost when I started as it’s been a while since I read the previous book, and it does carry on, and this does throw you straight back in but it was like I’d never been away.
All of the books in the series – including this one – are gory and violent and morbid and tense and hilarious and joyful. The characters – old and new – are fabulous. There’s a little less violence on Rhiannon’s part in this one but that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable.
Yes it’s about murder and whatnot, that’s hard to hide, but underneath it’s about friendship and loneliness, a community, a family and a sense of belonging, about love, trust, and about whether you feel your deserve what you get (good and bad).
It’s fast paced. I find with books of this length then it’s one of two things – it either flies past or it drags. And this definitely fits the former. I read it in less than a day as it was so fun and easy to read that it was really hard to put down. So I would advise you start this on a day where you have no other jobs to do because once it’s got it’s nails in you, it won’t let go.
It’s action and adventure, thriller, comedy and romance. Whilst I’m not advising you give it to small children to read, and some elders might find it shocking, I will say that it’s got a bit of everything to please any reader.
And on a side note, I found my name in the acknowledgements which made me really happy. I really love this series and will continue to shout about it to anyone who will listen – and those who try not to.
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