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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Just okay.............. I am a huge fan of Karen Slaughter and was really looking forward to this book but I must say it does not leave up to the standard of her previous books, was interesting at the beginning but becam a bit boring towards the end. I have not given up on Karen though, I am not tooo sure about Will Trents character.
Good for asleepless night The second novel by Karen that features protagonist Will Trent. As you'd expect the book is skilfully written with Karen's trademark twists as well as gripping character attributes the really make this a difficult book to put down with you often thinking, just one more page. Yet whilst this is a second instalment its really a tale that can be picked up without having read the previous novel. Great prose, cracking pace and above all a story that will stay with you after you've finished the last page and will... more info
Brilliant beginning... ...however as the story progresses it all gets a bit ploddy and I found myself losing interest as to whether the mystery is resolved or not. Special Agent Will Trent and Detective Faith Mitchell are thrown together to unravel this case. Will features in 'Triptych' but in 'Fractured' Karin concentrates more on developing his character, more than one aspect of which is worked nicely in with the story. Both he and Faith are realistically written with interesting histories and mini plots of their own and... more info
good but not great i have been a fan of karin slaughter's books for sometime and love her grant county series but i feel her will trent novels (fractured is the second in the series)don't hold the readers imagination enough and the characters don't have the same appeal to the reader. i feel that most of the characters appear hollow with no real depth and no significant likeable quality, unlike her grant county characters. i found the story interesting enough - its basically involves the brutal murder of teenage girl, with the... more info
