This one touches on the darkest side humanity has to offer. It has some brutal moments. It moved at a good pace though I did feel we could have had more depth on evies past. She is a great character and the book flowed with both fear and emotion. This one is a real life problem turned into a jaw dropping heart pounding thrill ride

Thank you to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster Canada | Scribner for the eARC of this book.

This is number 4 in the Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac series. Cyrus, a forensic psychologist, first met Evie years before at a children's home. Evie had been found in the home of a dead man, hiding in a closet, a victim of child abuse. Over the years Cyrus and Evie have worked together to help her overcome her background in order to live a normal life, eventhough many of her memories remain hidden from them both.

Cyrus and Evie are enjoying a day at the beach when tragedy strikes. A migrant boat has been ramed, broken apart and the bodies start to wash up on the beach. Cyrus and Evie have become seperated as Cyrus helps deal with the chaos and the lone survivor. When Evie is found, she has reverted into herself, unable to communicate and almost catatonic. What follows along is the search for those who rammed the boat, those participating in human trafficking, child sexual abuse, and what truly happened to Evie all those years ago.

I had not read any of the previous books but had no trouble catching on to Evie and Cyrus' backstory. This book tackles some very difficult subjects head on. It's an excellent read. 4 out of 5 stars.

Storm Child by Michael Robotham is a good fit for readers who enjoy psychological thrillers that explore the complexities of the past and the impact it has on the present, particularly in relation to trauma, survival, and the pursuit of justice.

Most of the books I read are heavy reads, but this book was even more so because it alludes to real events. Current events, about human suffering at the hands of the powerful. Duplicitous people who have so many facades that it would make your head spin.

While the story was intriguing and written well, try as I may I could not get invested in Evie or Cyrus as people. I wish more time was given to give more substance to these characters. Their back story is placed almost like a placeholder and I kept waiting for it to unfold in more detail so I can truly sink my heart into this story but it didn’t happen.

I’ve given it four stars because it is an important story to read. This story is about human trafficking, xenophobia and politics.

I received a copy of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley.

The bodies of migrants are washed onto the beach where Cyrus and Evie are holidaying. Cyrus helps save one survivor and on the strength of that inserts himself into the investigation, even though there never really seems to be much call for a psychologist. Instead Cyrus and Evie keep asking awkward questions of people they think are involved in endangering or trafficking migrants today and also Evie herself when she was a child. The whole mystery of Evie's past is laid out here, presumably as recalled by Evie herself, which felt a bit anticlimactic after the gradual hints of the previous books.

I found the various players in St. Claire (who were all related to each other in one way or another) confusingly hard to keep in their proper places and the ending frustratingly abrupt. Not my favourite in this series.

I’ll be the first to admit it took me a while to settle with the Cyrus and Evie series, the first two books had such a strong focus on the backstories of our lead characters. The third book brought things together very nicely and I was very eager to read this.

WOW! Storm Child is a modern masterpiece.

Opening with a day at the beach, which ends in tragedy as bodies start washing up on the beach. Cyrus’s compulsion to care for the sole survivor and investigate the people trafficking operation that brought him to England will drag Evie back into painful memories of her own journey.

The balance of progression on the ongoing case with Evie’s story is just perfect, it steadily builds to a very powerful and thrilling finale and sets up for the continuation of this series exquisitely.

As deep, dark and stormy as the North Sea this is truly compelling crime writing, building on the already wonderfully developed characters of Cyrus and Evie. This is an essential book in what is now an epic series.

Definitely recommended, definitely best read in order from Book 1, Good Girl, Bad Girl.

Thanks to Netgalley and Simon & Schuster Canada