(PDF) [A Faint Cold Fear] Ó Karin Slaughter
Something is amiss The discovery of an additional crime scene in the same vicinity calls into uestion not only the suicide label but changes the trajectory of Sara s amily The scene is gut wrenchingly graphic yet works in some twisted way to solidify eelings As the bodies continue to pile up Jeffrey and Sara work together to determine if one Grant Tech suicide is inspiring the next or if something ar darker is happening around campusIn Kisscut the previous book readers watched as Sara put Sono with Visits from the Seventh forth her best effort to make Jeffrey whole This time around A Faint Cold Fearinds Jeffrey laying it all on the line Steadfast in his resolve to prove he s the man Sara needs him to be this time Theirs is a second chance love like no otherFor me Lena has always been and I assume always will be the character I love to hate Naturally everything she s aced lends her character sympathy Although my patience with her antics dwindles uite uickly In all airness some of my gut churning disdain likely stems rom knowing where her storyline is ultimately heading A complete and utter mess A Faint Cold Fear inds Lena on a boozy spiral of bad choices Refusing to partake in mandated therapy left her with little choice but to trade in her police badge Heroes Adrift (Hero, for a Grant Tech campus security uniform Yeah that s right she no longer worksor Jeffrey That doesn t stop her Chuck and Danielle from landing in the thick of it though The unnerving suicides gory scenesamily ties tumultuous relationships and unwavering intensity throughout make Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How We Can Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old for alawless third edition to the Grant County series All punctuated with a stellar ending that showcases the ueen of crime s skillful plotting Originally posted on The Book NymphoSarah Linton is called to the scene of an apparent student suicide and allows her very pregnant sister Tessa to accompany her What happens next sets off a series of tragic and mysterious events that calls into uestion whether the dead student was a suicide Most of the story was akin to watching a train about to wreck while standing by powerless to do anything about it other than scream at the deaf pages Lena Adams drove me crazy and Jeffrey Tolliver doesn t help matters The mystery was a good one though as I wasn t certain of the killer s identity because I couldn t Dogs Behaving Badly: An A-Z Guide to Understanding and Curing Behavorial Problems in Dogs figure out motive This is an extraordinary series with deeplylawed and troubled characters No one comes out unscathed and sometimes it s difficult flawed and troubled characters No one comes out unscathed and sometimes it s difficult define the good guys Well they do say Practice makes Perfect and I must say this was a vast improvement on the Gray Bishop first two in the seriesMost of the characters are intriguing I seriously don t know what to make of them Sara Jeffrey Lena especially Lena No matter what Jill Rosen said Lena had rules and one of them was that she never drank before eight at night Was in Vegas recently and visited Jimmy Buffet s restaurant It wasn tive o clock there but it was somewhere Ritalin of course His generation grew up on that More Valium lithium amantadine PXIL Xanax How about that Bit of a twist at the end C mon Sara what are we doing he 35 to 4 starsSlaughter continues to be brutal with the third installment of the Grant County series Every character has skeletons in their closet Every relationship is troubled Nothing is as it seems to beI am not going higher with my rating on this because I still eel like this book like the previous installments is leaning heavily on shock actor over story to draw in the reader Not that shock actor is a bad thing but when every scene is gory of violently sexual it does get to be a bit muchI will be continuing reading Slaughter because the stories are interesting and overall they are improving But if you decide to give her a try and I may have said this before proceed with caution. He sadistic killer he discovers that ex police detective Lena Adams now a security guard on campus may be in possession of crucial information But bruised and angered by her expulsion rom the Liar force Lena seems to be barely capable of protecting herself let alone saving the next victim. Herself Lena Adams is now working at the University as Campus Security Gone are the days of her being a Police Officer After what happened to her a year ago she just couldn t hack it Now however she s back in the thick of investigating a crimeor better or worseWhat makes this book so darn good is that it s a character driven mystery Jeffrey Tolliver and Sara Linton s dynamics are spot on whether they are working together to try Jeffrey Tolliver and Sara Linton s dynamics are spot on whether they are working together to try solve a crime or trying to work on their relationship I just love them together And what can I say Jeffrey is totally swoonworthy As Noir for Lena there is something about her that gets me She has been through the wringer and yet she hasn t uite given up Then there is the dynamics between Sara and her sister Tess Talk about realistic Here in Faint Cold Fear the mystery is pulse pounding and the characterizations areantabulous and I highly recommend this novel Renovate: Changing Who You Are by Loving Where You Are for those of you lookingor a thrilling read Thanks to Hoopla Gaffer for the audiobookPublished on Goodreads on 102019 I started off really liking this book but at some point along the way it started toeel like of the same old same oldSara and Jeffrey are still sort of estranged and still vacillating about their Circumstantial Evidence feelingsor each other Sara is a really prickly person Lena is still getting it all wrong It seems she has learnt nothing Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers from her past Frank iswell Frank is Frank is FrankSara rather stupidly takes her heavily pregnant sister Tess alongor the ride when she attends the scene of an apparent suicide Tess takes a walk to attend to the call of "nature and is brutally attackeddoubt is thrown on "and is brutally attackedDoubt is thrown on the suicide is actually a suicide when another apparent suicide occurs Lena becomes involved in another death on campus and really It all gets a bit messy There are plots and sub plots and sub sub plotsNot the best Karin Slaughter I have read And honestly I think I prefer her stand alone books It might do you some good to remember that at the end of the day no matter how smart that brain of yours is up there it s your heart that needs looking after Subjectivity and personal preference aside readers share a common goal inding those rare books that manage to leave their mark Or as in this case an entire series so monumental the inspired eelings linger long after The emotionality dark themes and vulnerability put on A Chicken in Every Yard: The Urban Farm Store's Guide to Chicken Keeping full display in Grant County have made it a place I deem worthy of revisitingIt was back in college that I stumbled across Karin Slaughter s work at a time when only Blindsighted and Kisscut had met the world Her ballsy approach and my ensuing loveor the multi Island of the Lost Horses (Dora and Friends) faceted beings presented on the page inspired aull read through every summer in anticipation of her all release Now
over a decade later still ind myself enad with Slaughter s devious plotting And as I might ve mentioned a time or two in previous reviews a particular second chance duoThe countless times I ve stepped God Said, Ha!: A Memoir foot in Grant County makes theact that I remembered absolutely nothing going into A Faint Cold Fear this time around pretty surprising No plotlines character arcs relationship details nada Leaving me to ponder what provoked the onset of temporary amnesia My best guess this hippocampus of mine only retaining so many plotlines before a data dump is imminent The proof is in the pudding Not only was my level of engagement on par with a irst encounter but A Faint Cold Fear substantiated itself as my avorite in the series thus On the Right Side of a Dream far So bloody good there s no way I m letting this third installment slip into oblivion again In typical Slaughterashion she opens with a jarring bloodbath Working through the semantics of what appears to be a suicide Jeffrey the chief of police and Sara the medical examiner ind that. He way of clues and the college authorities are eager to avoid a scandal but or Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver things don't add upTwo suspicious suicides Operation Iceberg : The Invasion and Conquest of Okinawa in World War II follow and a young woman is brutally attacked For Sara the violence strikesar too close to home And as Jeffrey pursuesEven Over A Decade Later