Amanda

This was a fun read but does take a little bit to get going. Once the story gets going, the pace gets better but a good chunk of the first half is backstory. Completely necessary backstory, though!

This book didn’t quite land for me and I think it was because I had different expectations going in. There is a time gap between this and book 1. I feel a lot of the character growth happened off the pages so right off the bat in book 2, while they may be the same-named characters, they’re fundamentally different.

So, expectations are pretty important for the story to land right.

I would say this is a pretty basic thriller- tense and the audiobook was great, but otherwise the story was pretty average. I figured out the major plot before the halfway point so most of the time spent with this was just purely because I was curious on how it would wrap up and that also was quite average and fairly predictable too.