Review: Excellent Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2014
I got this book before reading the first one so I can only go by what all transpired here and not the connection between the first book & this one.  I did enjoy this book immensely.  It was very well written and the killer was truly a scary person, scary I think because there have been and will be, killers like this one anywhere in the world at any time.  The best thing and a very ironic thing was how cool the reporter- Rebekka was; she wasn't your stereotypical reporter who is constantly in people's faces, bombarding them with never-ending questions with no concern to how the person is feeling or how the questions will affect that person.  That quality alone greatly attracted me to her character.I know this sounds rather like bragging but when a character came into the story; I won't name who it is because that'd be spoiling things, I had a suspicion they were involved in the killings in some way and it turns out I was correct so that's always fun but I also admit, I greatly enjoy it when the author makes you think it's a certain person and it turns out to be someone entirely different; in a way I guess that's what happened here.  Towards the end of the book you discovered the reasons behind the killer's actions, what affected them so badly to cause them to do such things to others and I'll admit, in a way I could see why they turned out as they did- here's a lesson for any parents out there- you need to treat and raise your kids a great deal better than many do otherwise you're helping to create living, breathing monsters.What I also enjoyed with this story is the fact that even though it's a book in a series of books, you don't have to read the previous one or the ones that follow in order to get the story to conclude; often times when authors create a series, there's always a cliffhanger at the end that makes you have to continue reading the next book in the series in order to continue the story; this book stands on its own and that's a great thing.