And There He Kept Her

this was a perfectly serviceable mystery/thriller with a more interesting main character than most out there. i liked it but also was a little let down by it overall. i get that this is going to be a series, and with this being the first in that series, there's an overarching main character plot begun here, but it felt open-ended in the end of the book, like i was waiting for some other ends to wrap up but they were left open, assumedly left for a later book. kind of a mixed bag for me, but i did like that the mc was very different than pretty much every other book i've read in this genre, and that does make me interested to read more in this series to see where his story goes.

tws: sexual assault, kidnapping, murder, drug abuse, gun violence, pedophilia, abuse, homophobia