Getting close to the end of Lisa Gardner's published books and I'm still having a good time. I may not love all her books, but they're always entertaining and I'm never against reading another.

In general, this book felt a little overblown. Like there was just constantly too much going on. Too many characters, too many bad guys, too many melodramatic backstories. I like a good amount of drama in my thrillers, but I felt this needed to be much more simplified. I only spent a couple days on it, but even getting close to the end I had a hard time keeping all the characters straight and read one whole passage thinking it was a flashback with a long dead character when it was really happening in the present with one of the main cast. It was all too much to keep track of.

The ending of this got rather disjointed. There were a half dozen characters involved and it jumped between them frequently, like every few paragraphs for a while. It felt like a cheap way to make the ending seem fast paced and more dramatic, when really it just took me out of the story and made it difficult to follow.

There was also the problem that some of the backstories seemed more interesting than the current book I was reading. There was this whole bit about a pedophile case the main detective had worked two years before that seemed way better, and I was honestly a bit disappointed to find out it wasn't its own book.

But overall, it was fun. At the end of the day, that's all a thriller really needs to be for me. It wasn't fantastic, but I like cop thrillers and this took me for a good ride, like Gardner always does. It wouldn't be on the top of my list of recommendations, either from her (Find Her is my favorite so far) or for thrillers in general (Karin Slaughter is fantastic), but I had a good time with this and I'm sure I'll have a good time with the next of her books that I pick up.