I was hooked from the first chapter. Karin Slaughter has an uncanny ability to weave multiple storylines into plot without me even fully realizing what’s happening until it’s happening.
In this book, a young woman is rushed to the hospital after being found hit by a car, and it is discovered that her injuries are not just from the car, but are consistent with prolonged torture. The injuries are gruesome and difficult to read about (and I’m generally not easily grossed out), and of course the GBI finds its way onto the case.
Will Trent and his partner, Faith Mitchell (formerly of the Atlanta Police Department) diligently try to track the clues but discover that the suspect has left very little for them to work with. Of course the plot is complicated by WIll’s on-again, off-again wife (but only in name) – the infamous Angie Polaski. If you’ve read any of the other Will Trent books, you’ll probably despise her too.
Adding even more complications is a new character to the series, Dr. Sara Linton is introduced. She’s an ER doctor at Grady Hospital, the only level one trauma center in the area. She’s the doctor who takes care of the injured woman and naturally becomes part of the case. Before coming to Atlanta, she worked as a doctor in a rural area of Georgia and also as a coroner, and has her own secrets, much like Will and Faith.
This book will suck you in right from the start and keep you spellbound right until the end. There’s twists and turns and little revelations about the characters that will have you wanting to read more, not just of the book, but of the entire series. If I have one suggestion, don’t start this book late in the day. If you’re anything like me, you’ll promise yourself “just one more chapter,” multiple times, until you look at the clock and realize it’s 3am and you still haven’t finished. But it’s definitely worth the missed sleep. Karin Slaughter killed it with this book and I’m looking forward to more of the series..
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I enjoyed the first series of Will Trent and didn’t realise that it was a book! I have yet to get back to the second series.
Have a great week!
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I’m working through the second season now, but they’re so different from the books that it almost feels like something completely separated from them.
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Interesting. I haven’t carried on with the second season yet. I haven’t been in the mood for it.
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I get that. I’m not as on top of the episodes as I was last year.
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I flick through all the various streaming platforms and nothing really speaks to me…
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It’s like flicking through the channels and not finding anything was before streaming services haha. Yet I can absolutely lose myself just searching to find something that intrigues me.
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Haha. Yes, my mum only believed in 3 channels and channel 3 was not for us 🤣 BBC only 😂
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🤣 yeah, my parents were pretty strict with me when I was growing up since they were so much older when they had me, but I grew up when we had 12 channels available total, and there was no remote control available yet. I was the official channel changer🤣
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I don’t think I ever really questioned it. There literally wasn’t anything else 🤣 12 channels?! That’s amazing 😂
Haha 😂 I lose the gadget these days – we have 3 and I can never find any
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Pretty much, we had 2-12, and then PBS, an educational channel 21, and then channel 55 which played all the movies. And you had to get up and walk over to the huge TV set, which was in some kind of frame like a heavy piece of furniture, only to flip through like, 12 channels. That’s why no kids slept late on the weekend morning devoted to cartoons.
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We had nothing like that. We did have a remote control though I think 🤔 ahhh loved a cartoon 😂
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This was in the 1980s 🙈
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How come I only had 3 channels in the 90s? Who do I speak to about this outrageousness 🤣😂
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I believe you might have to bring it to … HRH? The House of Lords? Parliament? Maybe the cable didn’t reach your area?
I could go on all day.
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😂 definitely all of the above.
I was in a town. Hardly the countryside where I live now (although there is so much building here now that the village is literally a building site and is huge).
My partner didn’t have all those channels either as far as I am aware. I will have to ask him. He is 2 years older so a child of the 80s 🤣 if you can count the last 2 years of the decade 😂
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Hahahaha, his memories probably don’t start until after the 80s ended!
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Yeah. I still like to tease though 🤣
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