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Dying Truth
by Angela Marsons
Oh Angela Marsons, how you have slain my heart! π
This book had me reading way after my bedtime with a quickened pulse, only to leave me feeling gutted. Dying Truth was without a doubt, a dynamic addition to Angela Marson's, Kim Stone series. As difficult as it is to say this, because I have genuinely loved each and every Kim Stone book, Dying Truth has firmly become my favorite book of the series to date!
The team's latest case brings them to Heathcrest, an elite boarding school where a 13 year old girl has been found dead in an apparent suicide. Of course nothing is cut and dry when Kim is on the case. She immediately notices peculiarities that simply just don't add up to this being a suicide. Sadie Winters was fighting emotional demons and family dysfunction by self harming. Many were quick to simply write her off as "troubled" but when another student turns up dead Kim knows there is evil lurking within the walls of Heathcrest that must be stopped before other lives are claimed.
As Kim and her team work to solve this case they uncover long kept traditions and secret societies both within and outside of the school walls entrenched in bullying, privilege, lies, dark rituals and of course secrets they are willing to do anything to keep hidden. I was engrossed in this case and how it affected each member of the team. Kim, Bryant, Dawson and Stacy reveal parts of themselves as they work through the case, endearing them to my reader heart even more. Marson's truly knows how to write a mystery with heart at its core and it's due to her deftly crafted characters.
The storyline here was complex, packed with action and suspense and an abundance of tension! As I read through the ending my palms were sweaty, my heart racing and tears streamed down my face - I had a very real physical and emotional reaction to this book! Well played Angela Marsons, very well played indeed! You know you are in deep with a series when you effectively forget that what is happening within its pages is not directly affecting you in real life. I don't care what anyone says - π this one broke my heart dear fellow readers and I felt every single crack! π
This book had me reading way after my bedtime with a quickened pulse, only to leave me feeling gutted. Dying Truth was without a doubt, a dynamic addition to Angela Marson's, Kim Stone series. As difficult as it is to say this, because I have genuinely loved each and every Kim Stone book, Dying Truth has firmly become my favorite book of the series to date!
The team's latest case brings them to Heathcrest, an elite boarding school where a 13 year old girl has been found dead in an apparent suicide. Of course nothing is cut and dry when Kim is on the case. She immediately notices peculiarities that simply just don't add up to this being a suicide. Sadie Winters was fighting emotional demons and family dysfunction by self harming. Many were quick to simply write her off as "troubled" but when another student turns up dead Kim knows there is evil lurking within the walls of Heathcrest that must be stopped before other lives are claimed.
As Kim and her team work to solve this case they uncover long kept traditions and secret societies both within and outside of the school walls entrenched in bullying, privilege, lies, dark rituals and of course secrets they are willing to do anything to keep hidden. I was engrossed in this case and how it affected each member of the team. Kim, Bryant, Dawson and Stacy reveal parts of themselves as they work through the case, endearing them to my reader heart even more. Marson's truly knows how to write a mystery with heart at its core and it's due to her deftly crafted characters.
The storyline here was complex, packed with action and suspense and an abundance of tension! As I read through the ending my palms were sweaty, my heart racing and tears streamed down my face - I had a very real physical and emotional reaction to this book! Well played Angela Marsons, very well played indeed! You know you are in deep with a series when you effectively forget that what is happening within its pages is not directly affecting you in real life. I don't care what anyone says - π this one broke my heart dear fellow readers and I felt every single crack! π