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Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh

6 reviews

sharkfan's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Very dark and very graphic deaths.  This is something I usually don’t like, and didn’t here either - but, I couldn’t put this down.  I had to know what happened next.   I’ll give the author credit, it’s a great story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Outing, and Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia, Self harm, Cannibalism, Stalking, Car accident, Abandonment, and War

c_dmckinney's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I had absolutely no idea this book was part of a series, let alone the fourth in. The writing was impeccable and it didn't feel like I was missing any back story let alone 3 entire previous books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Police brutality, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

parkerpng's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia, Rape, and Suicide

siniandi's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.5

Within the thriller category, this is one of the best there is right now. It is fast paced and really engaging; one of those books you read within two days, because you can't really bring yourself to stop reading. The plot was developed quite well and I didn't see the final twists coming at all! The book fails the Bechtel test, but those looking for a tense thriller with good entertainment value will be happy with this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Rape, and Sexual violence

greenglass67's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Pretty good book! It feels like an episode of Criminal Minds. It's a pretty court-heavy crime drama, but the pacing and other elements of the story keep it from getting boring. There are a lot of layers to the story and the crime involved and a few minor plot twists that I didn't see coming. It does take a bit to really get going, but I still enjoyed it. I think this book is part of a series, but I read it as a standalone and didn't have any trouble understanding it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Medical content, Car accident, and Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia

lostcupofstars's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

This was good and had the potential to be a really excellent read. I don’t normally read crime fiction but this came highly recommended. The plot was really well thought out - even while knowing that the killer is on the jury, there are still a number of things that keep you on your toes. 
Where it let itself down was the character development. I know that this is #4 in a series of books about this same lawyer, but they can also be read a stand-alone books. I think there are way too many characters, very few of which are developed and this means that some of the parts that are supposed to be shocking don’t land the way they should. I found myself having to flick back to figure out who the reveal character was and what I had missed. 
The action scenes were also really hard to follow, a little bit too much was left to the imagination and I had to keep rereading paragraphs to understand what had happened.
THAT being said, I did enjoy reading this. The things I listed stopped it from being a 5 star read, but once I hit the 60% point I had to finish it and stayed up til 3am to do so. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Homophobia, Rape, and Terminal illness