energyrae's review
3.0
The town is in chaos, shots have been fired in the middle school leaving several adults dead. But by the time the police get there, the suspect is missing. All the children are accounted for, except for Nick's daughter, Ava and Alex's fiance, Zoey, who happened to be in the school at the time. Both of them are too close to the case to be able to be active participants, but that doesn't mean that they won't move mountains to find the ones they love.
While Claflin delivers the edge of your seat suspense you've come to expect out of the Alex Mercer series, this was my least favorite of the books. First, because of the subject material, I feel like the release date should have been pushed back considering recent events going on in America. Secondly, throughout the book, Alex comes across as insanely selfish. His sister Macy is alone, and going into labor, and I understand Alex is hurting and worried about Zoey, but he's the only one that can help. Yet he keeps pleading with his father to pass the job off, running through the list of everyone possible. Later on in the book, he is obsessing about Zoey, going back mentally to the days when they had first met. In all his worries, he never once thinks to check on his daughter. I know she's sick and not aware of what has happened at the school, I also know that Zoey's parent's have custody of her, but he goes on about "the love of his life" with no mention of his daughter. Considering his daughter had been through so much in previous books, it would have been nice to see him check on her. But instead, he came across as too self-absorbed.
I think if he had protested less to help his sister when she really needed it, and put some effort into his daughter, the book would have been so much better, and I feel it's an easy fix to do.
While Claflin delivers the edge of your seat suspense you've come to expect out of the Alex Mercer series, this was my least favorite of the books. First, because of the subject material, I feel like the release date should have been pushed back considering recent events going on in America. Secondly, throughout the book, Alex comes across as insanely selfish. His sister Macy is alone, and going into labor, and I understand Alex is hurting and worried about Zoey, but he's the only one that can help. Yet he keeps pleading with his father to pass the job off, running through the list of everyone possible. Later on in the book, he is obsessing about Zoey, going back mentally to the days when they had first met. In all his worries, he never once thinks to check on his daughter. I know she's sick and not aware of what has happened at the school, I also know that Zoey's parent's have custody of her, but he goes on about "the love of his life" with no mention of his daughter. Considering his daughter had been through so much in previous books, it would have been nice to see him check on her. But instead, he came across as too self-absorbed.
I think if he had protested less to help his sister when she really needed it, and put some effort into his daughter, the book would have been so much better, and I feel it's an easy fix to do.
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