Louise Phillips (1)

This book came recommended highly, and the author won a couple of awards for this book, but it did not work for me at all. Way too much jumping around, lots of characters and situations described but I never knew who was related to who or why they were part of the story only to find later that they didn’t seem to have any bearing on the actual story, and worst of all ridiculously short chapters so that there was never enough development of what was going on. I gave up half way through.
As I said before the author won “best Irish crime novel for this book but for the life of me I don’t see how.… (meer)

Criminal psychologist Dr Kate Pearson was abducted when she was twelve but has very little recollection of it. Twenty years later she receives a note saying I Remember You.

This is the fourth book in the series and I haven't read any of them. I do prefer to read in order but liked the premise as it revolves around a cult.

I found this book a little tedious and felt it was overlong. It didn't matter that I hadn't read any of the other books as this one could quite easily be read as a stand alone.

The story revolves around two murders, a cult and past crimes of abuse. The story comes together at the end, eventually with no big twist.

I had seen on another review that this book is not the best of the series but not reading any I can't compare. There wasn't enough in this book for me to want to read anymore at this stage.

Overall the story itself was ok. Probably if read in order I would connect with the characters better. I just felt that this story was too long and I was getting bored quite quickly half way through.… (meer)

This is a strong psychological thriller. I almost put the book aside about 25% of the way in because it was so confusing - it seemed as if every chapter was being told from a different POV, without warning and often with little orientation. I'm very glad I stuck with it, because gradually I was able to shift into the POV without difficulty and understand it was part of the whole taut story.

This isn't a happy novel, but it was very well written and I have put the next in the series, Last Kiss, in my 'to read' folder.

Violence - quite a bit, but not as much gore as most thrillers.
Romance and/or sex - really none
Strong language - yes, although it certainly didn't get in the way of the story being told.

Definitely a hard book to put down once you get into it, and a bit haunting after it's completed.

Oh - the story takes place in Dublin, so there was some slang I didn't know (but again, didn't get in the way too much)… (meer)