The Chain

I have such conflicting thoughts on this book.

The first half was so amazing and absolutely terrifying. It truly shows the lengths parents will go to protect and care for their children. That if some evil thing that is bigger than you or I asks you to do something - you do it, you don't falter, and you get who you are there to protect.

My big problems with it came with the second half. It felt like it was all a little too easy and wrapped up too perfectly. I understand needing to get the villains and the heroes all in the same location for the ending but it was just too convenient. The twins didn't get as fleshed out as anyone else to me. We got their backstory about how they have always been evil but it didn't satisfy me enough for them the extent that they went to get rich and create such turmoil in other peoples' lives.

I love McKinty's Sean Duffy Novels, and this one deserves 4 stars based on originality of premise and execution of this kind of book (airport thriller?). It is pure calories and the sugar rush is great but I am going to line up [b:Gun Street Girl 22551891 Gun Street Girl (Detective Sean Duffy, #4) Adrian McKinty https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1421011905l/22551891.SX50.jpg 40265576] for my dose of protein.

3.5 ✨ this was extremely thrilling, fast paced and unputdownable! i love how this book felt like a movie and created an atmosphere of anxiety, but everything seemed almost too perfectly tied up at the end. it was too simple. i predicted the creator of the chain correctly and was waiting for another twist... but none came. overall, i liked the action and the plot, but the characters were flat and mediocre & the ending was odd.