Mackenzie says: 3.5 starsI can't help it, I just pretty much devoured this book and couldn't really put it down. It wasn't as good as the first one in my opinion, mostly because so much was from Connie's POV. I get that it was important and I like her as a character but to me the book just lost some of what made the first one so great by leaving the minds of serial killers or Jazz. I loved his way of thinking in the first volume and the sporadically thrown in Impressionist bit the second just hav...e him a lot of change. He lost control so many times, he didn't lose it that much in volume 1... I get that Billy gets him riled up but at times it may became strange. Why would be suddenly react so strongly when in volume 1 he could deal with him much more calmly? It just felt very different and to me it was kind of like an entirely different character... It's still well written and I enjoyed it, but at times it also annoyed me at least a bit. The characters sometimes acted as dumb as they possibly could and this time, you weren't thrown off by being lead to make wrong assumptions but as the character learned, you did as well. I preferred that kind of "hey, here, I'm pointing this guy out as a killer through my character but then I'll let you down by making the killer someone else". Well, let's see what the last part will be like and who will turn out to be the Crow King and how they'll survive (since I can't see some characters being dead the moment the book starts, that just would be plain weird to kill your MC)... lasmith2389 says: This review will be short and spoiler free! :-)This was a gripping whodunnit and entertaining game of cat and mouse. It's a long book but it doesn't feel long; another true page-turner from Lyga.Be warned: the gore and gruesome scale increases significantly in this book. Plenty of entrails all over the place. If just the idea of that turns your stomach, this probably isn't the book for you.But, for all it's good points, I didn't enjoy this book as much as I Hunt Killers. This was partly because as soon as we are told the markers the killer is leaving behind, I knew what was going on. And I couldn't believe that no-one else got it either! The other reason why this is a 4, rather than 5-star read for me was because the characters did some things that were truly daft. Unbelievably daft. Sighing and rolling your eyes at their idiocy daft.But blimey what a cliffhanger! I'll be reading Blood of my Blood asap.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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