My usual Karin Slaughter spiel (check out my earlier reviews for this series if you want more in depth thoughts): the main characters are irritating, her writing is great, the stories are fantastic, I'm engrossed from page one and usually finish these books in about a day. Highly recommend if you like cop thrillers. They're the best I've read.

I feel like Angie's character has changed between books. She doesn't seem like the same person she was in Triptych, and not because of character development and growth. She just seems like a different character because her role in the story changed. It irritates me a little, but maybe I just interpreted her differently eight books ago. She didn't seem so cartoonishly evil back then.

I still have problems with the way the romance between Sara and Will is written. It's the same drama every book. They spend the entire book stressing about some lack of communication and then have half a conversation at the end that solves it because it was never really a problem to begin with. It's one element I could do without. I'd rather have less drama from them and just focus on the mystery, because there's plenty of drama there to fill an entire book.

But yeah, I love it. I wanted to go to the library today and get the ninth book in the series, but alas it was closed so instead I just wrote a bunch of backlog reviews for her books. I usually give cop thrillers 2-3 stars. 3 stars for a cop thriller is usually a good rating from me. They're forgetting and fun, but not particularly great. I've loved Karin Slaughter's, though. I've literally read ten of her books in just over a month and don't plan on stopping. This whole Will Trent series is fantastic and I've only given one of the books below four stars.