On a crisp Autumn evening in western Nebraska, what started as a group of kids filming their drug-fuelled party ends in an explosive light show, leaving the victims apparently electrocuted, with odd scorch marks being the only evidence. While Maggie tries to make sense of the different stories, sifting through what is real and what is hallucination, she realises that the surviving teens are being targeted and systematically eliminated. Meanwhile on the East Coast, Army colonel Benjamin Platt is at the scene of a deadly outbreak, desperate to identify the pathogen that has infected children at a Virginia elementary school. Despite the miles that separate them, the two cases collide as Maggie and Platt uncover secrets that were meant to stay hidden ...
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I adore the Maggie O'Dell series.
In this latest installment, the suspense starts off with a bang and the intrigue develops nicely, but the resolution of several plot points didn't live up to expectation.
Would love to see more character development between Maggie and Benjamin Platt too.
Looking forward to the next.
Once I got into this, it was a very fast read, a lot of good action and plot twists. It had a good X Files vibe. But when it was over I was left feeling like it was all flash and not much substance. I like a good conspiracy story, but this felt rushed. I have not read any of the other books in this series. There were a lot of characters and I think they could have been more developed. Sure, a few of them were from earlier in the series, but many were not.
