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The Roses of May
by Dot Hutchison
4.5 stars. This book grabbed my interest right away, and kept it. Listening on audio while I multi-task other activities (driving, cleaning, laundry, etc.) I was finding more things to do so I could continue listening.
I'd had the same fascination with the first book in this "series" ... very loosely connected, some same characters, but very much it's own story. Like [b:The Butterfly Garden|29981261|The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)|Dot Hutchison|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1461392121l/29981261._SX50_.jpg|47426931], this followed a serial killer with a unique mindset toward his victims. No cage and butterfly tattoos here, but a fixation on young women, wanting them to stay "pure" and killing them before they stray, or after they have. Surrounding them with flowers.
This book has two narrators - female, following Priya, the sister of one of the victims, and who seems to be in the cross hairs of the killer, and male, from the point of view of the killer and Eddison, one of the detectives we met in the previous book.
Honestly - I didn't feel like I got to know the detectives that well in The Butterfly Garden. That was the "butterflies" story. Here, it's mostly Priya's story, but we do get much more acquainted with the detectives and their lives and thoughts. The killer ... his sections were a definite change in voice (in italics in the print copy, I listened to audio but the kindle copy was also available in KU, and I like having it on hand for reference and to double check things). 2nd person, saying YOU, but it definitely worked, setting those sections apart.
I liked the building tension, as we know Priya is being targeted but not really in danger ... yet. I did NOT guess the killer, in fact had to go back and search to see when he had first been mentioned in the story to remember his place in it. I was very satisfied with the ending.
While the next book doesn't compel me to continue ... no cliff-hanger ending, this wrapped up completely, I plan on reading book 3, as I've liked the first two so much.
I'd had the same fascination with the first book in this "series" ... very loosely connected, some same characters, but very much it's own story. Like [b:The Butterfly Garden|29981261|The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)|Dot Hutchison|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1461392121l/29981261._SX50_.jpg|47426931], this followed a serial killer with a unique mindset toward his victims. No cage and butterfly tattoos here, but a fixation on young women, wanting them to stay "pure" and killing them before they stray, or after they have. Surrounding them with flowers.
This book has two narrators - female, following Priya, the sister of one of the victims, and who seems to be in the cross hairs of the killer, and male, from the point of view of the killer and Eddison, one of the detectives we met in the previous book.
Honestly - I didn't feel like I got to know the detectives that well in The Butterfly Garden. That was the "butterflies" story. Here, it's mostly Priya's story, but we do get much more acquainted with the detectives and their lives and thoughts. The killer ... his sections were a definite change in voice (in italics in the print copy, I listened to audio but the kindle copy was also available in KU, and I like having it on hand for reference and to double check things). 2nd person, saying YOU, but it definitely worked, setting those sections apart.
I liked the building tension, as we know Priya is being targeted but not really in danger ... yet. I did NOT guess the killer, in fact had to go back and search to see when he had first been mentioned in the story to remember his place in it. I was very satisfied with the ending.
While the next book doesn't compel me to continue ... no cliff-hanger ending, this wrapped up completely, I plan on reading book 3, as I've liked the first two so much.