A bit disappointed in this one. I did like the continuation of the story, but it somewhat fell flat. I just wasn’t engaged, but I was surprised with the twist.

I feel like I am about to shatter minds but Peter Swanson doesn't do it for me. I love the stories he writes but not his writing style which is so disappointing because that leads to a lot of FOMO. However, I am still giving this five stars because I am not one to mess with the love of an author (nor will I ever criticize Beyonce).

The Kind Worth killing was seriously amazing I love reconnecting with the main character and it was just so intense with an ending I never saw coming. You seriously can’t go wrong with Peter Swansons books!

I’m true fashion of Swanson, this book was amazing! It was the perfect follow up book and was engaging from the start!

2.5 stars. I really liked the first half of this book and was intrigued in the story and the outcome, but then the second half kind of lost me. Everything seemed a little too easy, Henry and Lily's relationship is just weird, and the ending was disappointing.

This was just okay. I don't remember much from THE KIND WORTH KILLING but enough to make the connections. The story was good but the writing didn't really do it for me. The book just felt very surface level overall, Lily's involvement was unnecessary and risky. The characters were fine, the audiobook narrators were boring.... It was a very quick read but really didn't feel worth it to rehash all of this plot again. There is a new story line with new characters but they didn't have enough depth and backstory for me to really care. It was also a little too similar to the first book and I would have rather had a true sequel, focusing more on Lily and Henry to keep developing their stories. I'm glad I read it but I wouldn't rush to recommend it to others.

This was my most anticipated book for this year!
The Kind Worth Killing is a favorite thriller that I have read but I didn't need to reread it because this book was good at slipping in parts when necessary (like when Lilly comes into play).

I loved all the plot twists (even though we get early look into what happens in the book and then get to watch it play out) and how eerie at times it made me feel. Joan and Richard were an intense pair. The way that Joan enjoyed the things she partook in was just so creepy. Kimball has an interesting journey from teacher to police officer to private eye and the way he feels and protects Lily still is a weird but likeable relationship.

Peter Swanson’s new book is, by his own definition, a semi-sequel. In THE KIND WORD SAVING, private instigator and former poet, Henry Kimbal, is tasked with the job a getting proof of infidelity from Joan Whalen’s husband, Richard. Always an uncomfortable job, it’s compounded by the fact that Henry knows Joan from his previous life as a school teacher, his teacher. The young Joan made him feel unease in school, and the feeling stayed when he met adult Joan. What should have been a simple case becomes much more complicated when Kimball finds two bodies in an uninhabited suburban home with a FOR SALE sign out front.

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The Kind Worth Killing remains my favorite Peter Swanson novel so you can imagine how stoked I was about a sequel! Sad to say The Kind Worth Saving didn't quite hit the same...

It was a page-turner for sure but the quality of the plot declines around the halfway mark. And while I loved the return of familiar characters (especially Lily), this just felt like an unnecessary sequel and a total cop-out. The author also tried to follow the same template/technique but hey, guess what. It's no longer shocking when you do it a second or third time!

The characters arcs of Joan and Richard Seddon were terribly inconsistent, going from sociopathic to cold and calculated to fumbling fools who make careless mistakes. I would have loved a girlboss story where Lily and Joan try to one-up each other instead.

So while entertaining, this didn't meet my high hopes overall. I loved that final conversation and scene though.

The Kind Worth Killing is my ALL TIME favorite book and I was so nervous to read this one, hoping it would be on par. And HOLY MOLY, Swanson NAILED it!! It literally could not have been better! I am so impressed at what he was able to do. He perfectly recaps the story, without being redundant. He answers all of the readers questions and just deepens the saga. I can’t wait to read the next book in the series to see whay Henry is up to!

This was a 4.5 star book for me, VERY VERY close to a 5 star thriller. Personally, I liked it even more than the original The King Worth Killing.

I think a lot of my disappointment with ‘A Kind Worth Killing’ had to do with the hype, of course that always plays a major part, everyone had been telling me for EVER that it was just soOoo good, but it was also my personal misconceptions about what the book was about. When a very large plot twist happened early on, I was a lil put off to realize that I was reading a different book than I had been expecting. I know Lily wasn’t exactly intended to be the most likable character, she was this deep unknowable well of darkness, which admittedly can sometimes make for a great anti hero. But I just didn’t vibe with her.

In the ‘Kind Worth Saving’ tho, I had completely different feelings. Maybe due to the fact that I had no real expectations and went into it knowing that Lily wasn’t my favorite character. Whatever it was, I was pleasantly surprised almost right away.

I thought it was an interesting choice to follow AKWK up with Henry, (the cop from AKWK that was on Lily’s trail that she put in the hospital) as one of the MCs. I actually really dug it, reading from his POV was interesting, & I felt it was a smart way of coming at Lily from another angle. Swanson managed to peel back some of Lily’s layers & show her in a different light. We got to see Lily show some empathy & form some genuine connections with Henry who was someone that she actually liked & respected rather than just someone she was using. I really liked seeing her in this different light because she quickly went from a cold calculating borderline sociopathic murderess, to more of a bad ass bitch who takes no prisoners. Sort of like a Dexter Morgan character. The big difference here is that in AKWK I wasn’t exactly rooting for Lily, the part of me that wanted her to succeed wanted it more so bc the other characters were so sh*tty that I wanted them to pay rather than out of a liking of Lily. In AKWS, Lily became the more lovable anti hero, I was fully on her team.

Overall this was a solid thriller, it doesn’t work as a standalone, you definitely need the context to be able to enjoy it as much as I did. It had breakneck pacing, a nice lil dose of character growth & development & I thought it ended in a manner true to form. Very close to 5 stars!

The Kind Worth Saving is such a fun, unique way to do a sequel. It has characters from the first story but stands on its own. I loved how the plot was similar to the first and showed another duo conspiring to carry out murders. It was a fast read that kept my attention the whole time and had a few surprising twists along the way. I would recommend this book to thriller and mystery fans!

The Kind Worth Saving was one of my most anticipated reads for 2023 and I am happy to report it absolutely lived up to the hype! It is a hard one to review without giving spoilers for the first book so I'll just say that if you haven't read The Kind Worth Killing please do yourself a favor and read it and then immediately read this one. The short chapters in different POV's along with a layered plot and multiple well fleshed out characters will have you flying through the pages. Thank you to @bibliolifestyle for my ARC and @netgalley for my eARC. Both books are out now.

The Kind Worth Saving follows Henry, a former high school teacher turned police detective turned private detective who is hired by a former student of his to follow her husband that she suspects of having an affair. Things go haywire when Henry finds Joan's husband Richard and his lover Pam dead from a murder-suicide. The more Henry thinks about it the more it bother hims that something isn't right about the murder-suicide. Henry starts to dig into Joan's past with the help of Lily., a former murder suspect from the case that Henry got fired from the police department. Henry uncovers a past drowning from a resort in Maine while Joan and her family were on vacation as a teenager. The plot thickens when Henry figures out that Richard Seddan's cousin was the one that had drowned at the resort. Henry puts 2 to 2 together and finds out that Joan and Richard Seddan have killed at least three times. Richard catches on and places a bomb in Henry's office but when it goes off Henry is the only one to survive the explosion. Joan knows that Henry has figured out that she and Richard were working together as a team in the murders and now she wants him dead. When Lily finds out that Henry is in critical conditon from the explosion she takes matters into her own hands. Lily befriends Joan and they come up with a plot to kill Henry. While reading The Kind Worth Saving I thought that the hotel resort in Maine sounded familiar, especially Uncle Murry's Book Nook. I had to google it and sure enough it was in Nine Lives. I loved how Peter Sawnson used that same resort in both noels. Full of twists and turns!

I LOVED The Kind Worth Killing. It's one of my top-ten all-time thriller reads, and so I waited for The Kind Worth Saving with great anticipation, and it absolutely lived up to everything I hoped it would be. I hope that Peter Swanson brings Henry Kimball and Lily Kintner back together again. They just have a relationship that seems like it shouldn't work, but it just does. They're both complex characters with unresolved issues. Ultimately, I don't think they belong together, but I think they're connected through past experiences that could be explored so much further. Two books just isn't enough!

The Kind Worth Saving was intriguing and kept me guessing a bit about how it would all shake out in the end. I loved the way Swanson provided a major twist in the plot about halfway through the story. Though this book features two characters from Swanson's previous title The Kind Worth Killing, I enjoyed it as a standalone novel. The story was well-plotted, featuring dual timelines between when the main characters were in high school and present day as adults. Quick paced and hard to put down.

Peter Swanson is in my top ten list of great authors. His stories are always focused, to the point, and enjoyable. The Kind Worth Saving is book two, but I think it is fine to read as a stand alone.
A thrilling cat and mouse game!

The Kind Worth Saving is a follow up to The Kind Worth Killing.

Private Investigator Henry Kimble is approached by a former student. Joan, from his teaching days, asking him to take her case. She wants Henry to follow her husband and prove he's having an affair. The case ends with Henry finding two dead bodies. The police think it's an open and shut case, but Henry has his suspicions. Suspicions that his client may have somehow been involved.

The Kind Worth Saving unfortunately didn't capture my attention as much as The Kind Worth Killing. It was a slow burn, not really picking up until more than half way through. I didn't find it as suspensful either and it moved along fairly predictably. The story was told in multiple parts and from multiple points of view. The first part established Joan's backstory, and while this was important to the story, it felt a little drawn out.

What I did love was Henry's relationship with Lily Kitner, who we met in The Kind Worth Killing. When Lily entered the story it became much more interesting. While their relationship seems odd, given what happened between them in The Kind Worth Killing, it actually seemed right too.

Overall, this just fell a little flat for me.

This was a great follow up to The Kind Worth Killing. It was twisty and full of murder. Henry is now a private investigator, hired by a woman named Joan, to prove her husband is cheating. Things get pretty messy and he asks Lily Kintner for her help. I really enjoyed reading from Lily’s POV again but felt like she should have been involved sooner in the story. I prefer the first one overall but this was suspenseful and I didn’t want to stop reading.

Thanks to @netgalley and @williammorrowbooks for the arc for an honest review.

One of my all time fav thrillers is The Kind Worth Killing, so this obviously was one of my most anticipated books out in 2023 and I’m happy to say I really enjoyed it! This was another fast, fun read full of plenty of twists and turns! I was able to predict some aspects of it, but others definitely took me by surprise. I think my favorite aspect of his storytelling in this is actually less about the wild twists and more about being in the twisted disturbing minds of his characters and watching how they think and plot. Not sure what that says about me… 😂

I read this in one sitting in just a few hours and really liked seeing all the story bits come together. I don’t want to say much more and risk giving anything away, so let’s just agree that you should plan to read this ASAP!

While you could read this as a standalone, you’d be doing yourself a huge disservice so I don’t recommend that at all 😂 There are characters who are in both books and major spoilers for TKWK so do yourself a favor and read that first!

Thanks to @williammorrowbooks and @netgalley for the DRC/ARC!