Hired to find a boy gene missing in Doraville, North Carolina, Harper Connelly and her brother Tolliver head there, only to discover that the boy was the only one left of several who had disappeared over the previous five years. All of them teenagers. All unlikely runaways.
All calling for Harper.
Harper soon finds them eight victims, buried in the half-frozen ground, all come to an unspeakable end. Afterward, what she most wants to do is collect her fee and get out of town ahead of the media storm that's soon to descend. But when she's attacked and prevented from leaving, she reluctantly becomes a part of the investigation as she learns more than she cares to about the dark mysteries and long-hidden secrets of Doraville knowledge that makes her the next person likely to rest in an ice-cold grave."
I find myself somewhat loosing interest in this series, but since I think there is only one more I'll probably read it at some point. The storyline is still solid and the mysteries are good (even though a little brutal) but it's the same as the last two. Harper is a depressing creature and every sense of the word, she has her good moments but then it's all gloom from there on out. Tolliver is moody and doesn't contribute much to the main story. The relationship between the two is odd, I know in my last review I was interesting in how it turns out but I suppose I didn't think it would be as weird as it turned out. Once i started thinking about it it really bothered me. I suppose if they had never considered each other as a close family member it would be better, but you go through the first book hearing about how much of a brother Tolliver is to her and blah blah blah. So by the time you get to this book the fact that they now are in a relationship is just weird. You just don't stop seeing a person as a brother that quickly, but apparently she does. Enough that the topic of sex crops up soon after this revelation...I mean about a sentence after. The sex scene is probably what made it so creepy to begin with, I could of handle gradual but not the immediate dirty talk and such. Over all that's what brought this way down for me, that and the depressing repetitiveness.
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24 June, 2011:
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