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Hooked from the off. A dark intriguing start which gave a great insight as to why the main character was the way she was. Thought provoking throughout and had me guessing til the end. Loved it!! Would highly recommend to escape for a few days!

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I thoroughly enjoyed this crime / romance novel. I found it to be gritty and honest and the instant attraction between the protagonists was believable and charming. The book centres round an emotionally damaged young woman and her navigation of the repercussions of the choices she makes and the company she keeps. I found myself really rooting for her almost from the first page. The main characters are complex and it feels like they are real people who have led their lives and the book is picking up at a critical time in their story. It is interesting that the book is written from both character perspectives which you don’t often see and I really felt this worked well. . I do hope there is a follow up to this novel as I would definitely read it!

I love the idea for this book …
A cyber-criminal with a phobia…

The detective who caught her…

Their target: a religious community in Hell’s Glen.

I love the characters, especially Katheryn and Jamie. I would like to see more of the side characters on Jamie’s team fleshed out more. This is a great thriller novel or movie in the making, but it needs to go through a serious editing … there are a lot of places where I read the same paragraph twice… this can’t happen… and some of the spelling and grammar is questionable. This novel appears to be in a draft mode.
If this novel is cleaned up, I definitely recommend it for people who love mysteries, thrillers, and action plots which include covert operations.

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Firstly, MASSIVE trigger warning for the on-page sexual assault of a child in the prologue. This ARC copy does not include any content warnings, and I definitely think this is something that prospective readers should know about.

Unfortunately, this book really did not work for me. Its writing, characterization, and plot were all pretty thin and not-engaging. I also had a problem with the fact that the two leads began a real relationship pretty much immediately after going undercover, despite the fact that they supposedly ‘hated’ each other just days before and would have serious practical reasons that such a relationship would jeopardize major areas of their lives (career for him and incarceration for her).

I’ve been on a roll with British thrillers lately, but, sadly, this one did not live up to that standard for me. I would not recommend this title for my library’s collection. 1.5 stars.

I requested this because the premise sounded extremely interesting; I love a thriller with a religious sect/cult. BIG trigger warning in the prologue... I was unable to continue reading this book due to the amateur writing. It was simply too poor for me to overlook and kept me from enjoying the story.