My Rating System: 2⭐️⭐️ ticked very few boxes BARELY THERE

Abby is back in the finale of the series and she has to put her negotiator skills to the ultimate test facing off against a deadly threat from her past.

A spate of suspicious fires across the country that are leaving people dead in their homes sparks the attention of Abby Mullen and she just knows that it has to be Moses Wilcox the ominous figure from her past. Meanwhile, Zoe Bentley and FBI Agent Gray are hot on the tale of the arsonist.

The fanatical cult leader Moses Wilcox has re-emerged and reborn as Moses Williams and he is quickly gathering a large cult following preaching about the second baptism.

Can Abby and Zoe work together to solve this case before more people’s lives are ruined?

Ok, so I was super pumped for this one to come out, I’ve been waiting for it. I’ve read all the other books (loved them), read the Zoe Bentley Series (loved them too), I’ve even read the Glenmore Park Series (pretty much loved those too). It hurts me to say this but I suppose there was bound to be a bad apple in the bunch and I am sad to say this is it for me. 😭🍎

First of all this book was SO LONG, ok I’ll deal with that if we have a super long book full of excitement and fun. No… that did not happen in this one. There were whole pages and even chapters that were what I personally consider filler. Completely irrelevant and nonsense that was never mentioned again or revisited or just didn’t add any value at all to the story. 😰

I mean there is a whole chapter about a meaningless characters dislike for a certain kind of drink, a chapter about an escaped pet … never to be revisited … so what!! 🤦‍♀️

So, I went on, let’s overlook the length and the extra pages - the story itself A CROSSOVER OMG… so pumped to see Abby and Zoe in the book together. First of all their vibe was all wrong for me… I expected butting heads but I did not love how they interacted it got slightly better by the end but overall it was lacking. 🤯

The premise of this story was missing something, it felt like it revisited the same topic over and over. There was a lot of repetition and a lot of mentioning Abby’s big ears and Zoe’s eyes and so on… it would have been easy for me to put this one down and DNF it was kind of boring… and I was disappointed to say the least. 🤷‍♀️

Yes people were being burnt alive… you might say to me what the hell else do you want… I want a story with grunt and body and characters that vibe together whether they like each other or not. I want to be excited to pick up my kindle every change I get… not think of every single thing that is annoying me about it. 😩

The ending - well there was a huge plot hole for me that was never explored and I just felt like for a story that is the final a series I was expecting something a bit more - not in the action but in the after. It just came to a grinding halt ok thats it see ya…. I won’t spoil it for you, as there will be many that will absolutely love this and thats great but for me it was pretty much a miss. 🛑

The positives were that I do love that there was a crossover, the series has been wrapped up which is nice to know not waiting for another and another outstaying its welcome, there was a little appearance from a fan favourite in the Zoe series (no spoilers). ✔️

I will be looking forward to the new series that Mike Omer has talked about I will not give up because of one crappy book. ⏭

Thank you to Thomas and Mercer, NetGalley and the author for an advanced copy of this book for an honest review.

I really, really liked this book! It hooked me from the first chapter and kept me hooked the entire time!