The big beef I have with this book is that the premise of the book - FBI is looking for a serial killer who kills teens so they recruit 2 teens who have experienced a serial killer personally so they can offer the perspective of "the youts" - is so ridiculous. Multiple grown ass adults make terrible judgment calls because the teens get whiney about being left out. Also when the adults do make good judgment calls, the teens obviously disobey orders and sneak around behind their back.

Besides that, the writing was fine but the characters lacked chemistry with each other and with me the reader. At a point in the middle of the book there is a flirty romantic scene that comes completely out of nowhere and then disappears just as quickly -- I was like "Wait a minute there pardner, were all of the very normal and professional conversations they had up to this point supposed to be read in a flirty light???" because there was nothing that led in that direction.

There were so many times I thought about DNFing, even at 80% I was considering it. But I have been 50/50 on completing books on my spooky season reading list and I wanted to actually finish one to even things out. Meh!!