Natalie Brown

I really enjoyed this book! For a small-town yarn this story has ambitious scope:

• There’s a large cast of diverse (age and stage of life, ethnicity, socio-economic status) characters and multiple intense storylines quite masterfully woven together. Readers who struggle with keeping a large cast of characters sorted will find that the pace and style of how they’re introduced in this story and their well-defined and sympathy-inducing character qualities make this easy to do.

• If you like a backwoods feel, there’s enough of this setting to satisfy but scenes also take place with more suburban feel.

• It deals with triggering themes without sinking into a story that swims in gore and darkness.

• It can work as a stand alone as most storylines are wrapped up but there is one, maybe two, left wide open which probably lead into the next story.

• This is the Anya Rossi series, and while she plays a pivotal role she isn’t the center of the book – it reads like an ensemble cast - but I assume her role grows with the series and I look forward to more of her story.

• I did guess the primary antagonist before the reveal, but there are multiple elements to the mystery that were unguessable and kept me trying to figure it out.

Overall, a very satisfying read which I recommend – I guarantee you will be happy with how you spent your time and it will stick with you. Well done, BG Frees!