crysta_lyn's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
raven31's review
Too much casual abuse of police power; toeing the line of sexist commentary from the MC, even if he does get routinely corrected; written in one of those ways where you're waiting for the shoe to drop on a blatantly sexist comment.
alecthegemini's review
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
jillsbookishbizco's review against another edition
4.0
I absolutely love this book. This is the first book I’ve read by this author, and I bought all of his other ones after reading this one. From the first chapter I was completely captivated. Every chapter was filled with mystery and suspense. The ending was something I did not see coming.
sometimesireadsometimesidont's review
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
iggyebab's review against another edition
1.0
There was a lot going on in this book and it was distracting. Not in the “I’m trying to mislead you and muddy the waters” way but in a “I had a bunch of great ideas and I’m going to cram them all in one book” way.
Rachel was annoying and irritating and more than a little self centered. Yes she was dealt an awful blow in the last book but constantly turning her phone off when she didn’t have to was selfish. I understand that her desire to solve crimes comes from how she was raised but she was a bumbling idiot.
Rath. Does he want to be a detective or not? Can he forgive himself for being a manwhore when he was younger? I’m not so sure he’s a crack investigator so much as a really lucky crime solver.
Grout felt unnecessary since he now lives in a different state.
The female detective spends most of her time afraid she won’t be senior detective because she has a family and the other part worried about her husband’s artist in residence offer.
It felt like I was let nothing happened for 3/4 of the book only to have everything crammed into the other quarter.
Rachel was annoying and irritating and more than a little self centered. Yes she was dealt an awful blow in the last book but constantly turning her phone off when she didn’t have to was selfish. I understand that her desire to solve crimes comes from how she was raised but she was a bumbling idiot.
Rath. Does he want to be a detective or not? Can he forgive himself for being a manwhore when he was younger? I’m not so sure he’s a crack investigator so much as a really lucky crime solver.
Grout felt unnecessary since he now lives in a different state.
The female detective spends most of her time afraid she won’t be senior detective because she has a family and the other part worried about her husband’s artist in residence offer.
It felt like I was let nothing happened for 3/4 of the book only to have everything crammed into the other quarter.
scknitter's review against another edition
5.0
The Names of Dead Girls is supposed to be a sequel but don’t let that stop you from reading it if you didn’t read the first book. It was a thriller very worthy of standing on its own. I didn’t even realize it was a sequel until after I had read it. Old crimes and new ones seem to get intertwined in this frantic hunt for a serial killer and stalker. Detective Rath rejoins the force after many years to find out why a paroled felon is following his adopted daughter. He is also convinced that the same felon (convicted of killing his sister and her husband) is somehow connected to a current murder. It is up to Rath and his partner Sonja Test to figure out which of the many possible suspects are actually involved and how they all fit together in what is happening in a small Vermont town. The different pieces start to come together in what seems to be an orderly fashion and then you really get a surprise.