Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough

Cross Her Heart

Lisa lives for her daughter Ava, her job, and her best friend Marilyn, but when a handsome client shows an interest in her, Lisa starts daydreaming about sharing her life with him too. Maybe she’s ready now. Maybe she can trust again. Maybe it’s time to let her terrifying secret past go.

Then her daughter rescues a boy from drowning and their pictures are all over the news for everyone to see. Lisa’s world explodes, and she finds everything she has built threatened. Not knowing whom she can trust, it’s up to her to face her past to save what she holds dear.

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I read Pinborough’s Behind Her Eyes and I would recommend it to everyone just for the WTF ending. It was so crazy and I would of never guessed it in a million years. So when I saw Cross Her Heart, I knew I had to read it.

It was a bit of a disappointment just because I was expecting another crazy ending and sadly lightning doesn’t strike twice here. I really enjoyed the first half of the novel. I was hooked and I had to keep reading to find out what Lisa’s secret was.

Then there was the second half. It got to a point where the plot turned a bit ridiculous and unbelievable. Also I don’t want to spoil anything, but there was some scenes in Lisa’s past that made me uncomfortable. I think the novel should of came with a warning.

3 calculators out of a potential 5. Read Behind Her Eyes, but you can skip Cross Her Heart (unless the plot intrigues you)!

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Collecting Cooper (Theodore Tate #2) by Paul Cleave

Collecting Cooper

People are disappearing in Christchurch. Cooper Riley, a psychology professor, doesn’t make it to work one day. Emma Green, one of his students, doesn’t make it home. When ex-cop Theodore Tate is released from a four-month prison stint, he’s asked by Green’s father to help find Emma. After all, Tate was in jail for nearly killing her in a DUI accident the year before, so he owes him. Big time. What neither of them knows is that a former mental patient is holding people prisoner as part of his growing collection of serial killer souvenirs. Now he has acquired the ultimate collector’s item—an actual killer.

Meanwhile, clues keep pulling Tate back to Grover Hills, the mental institution that closed down three years ago. Very bad things happened there. Those who managed to survive would prefer keeping their memories buried. Tate has no choice but to unearth Grover Hills’ dark past if there is any chance of finding Emma Green and Cooper Riley alive.

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A little bit disappointed with the second novel in the Theodore Tate series just because I loved the first novel (Cemetery Lake) a lot more. It’s best to read the books in order, just because Tate talks a lot about what happens in the first novel.

I got very confused at the beginning of the novel, with all the jumping back and forth between characters. It also didn’t help that I confused Tate and Cooper, which lead to a lot of flipping back to the beginning and scratching my head! They are two totally different people!

I always enjoy reading novels about ex police officers or ex detectives and their methods of solving the crime without the police force behind them. Tate was a previous detective, which he took to his advantage, and I enjoyed the way he went around the law in some cases.

3 calculators out of a potential 5. Not as amazing as the first novel in the series, but I will be reading more!

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WWW Wednesday – September 26, 2018

WWW

Welcome to WWW Wednesday! This meme is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. The Three Ws are:

What did you recently finish reading?

Liar Liar

Detective Helen Grace has never seen such destruction. Six fires in twenty-four hours. Two people dead. Several more injured. It’s as if someone wants to burn the city to the ground…

With the whole town on high alert, Helen and her team must sift through the rubble to find the arsonist, someone whose thirst for fire—and control—is reducing entire lives to ashes.

One misstep could mean Helen’s career—and more lives lost. And as the pressure mounts and more buildings burn, Helen’s own dark impulses threaten to consume her…

Another great Helen Grace novel! I had never read a novel that had fires as the focal point!

What are you currently reading?

Pieces of Her

What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all?

Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she’s spent her whole life in the small beachside town of Belle Isle; she knows she’s never wanted anything more than to live a quiet life as a pillar of the community; she knows she’s never kept a secret in her life. Because we all know our mothers, don’t we?

But all that changes when a trip to the mall explodes into violence and Andrea suddenly sees a completely different side to Laura. Because it turns out that before Laura was Laura, she was someone completely different. For nearly thirty years she’s been hiding from her previous identity, lying low in the hope that no one would ever find her. But now she’s been exposed, and nothing will ever be the same again.

The police want answers and Laura’s innocence is on the line, but she won’t speak to anyone, including her own daughter. Andrea is on a desperate journey following the breadcrumb trail of her mother’s past. And if she can’t uncover the secrets hidden there, there may be no future for either one of them…

Yay a new Karin Slaughter novel! I’m really enjoying this one!

What do you think you’ll read next?

Lethal White

“I seen a kid killed…He strangled it, up by the horse.”

When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike’s office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic.

Trying to get to the bottom of Billy’s story, Strike and Robin Ellacott—once his assistant, now a partner in the agency—set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside.

And during this labyrinthine investigation, Strike’s own life is far from straightforward: his newfound fame as a private eye means he can no longer operate behind the scenes as he once did. Plus, his relationship with his former assistant is more fraught than it ever has been—Robin is now invaluable to Strike in the business, but their personal relationship is much, much trickier than that.

Just picked this up from the library. Can’t wait to read more about Strike and Robin!

What are your WWW? Have you read Liar Liar, Pieces of Her or Lethal White?

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WWW Wednesday – September 19, 2018

WWW

Welcome to WWW Wednesday! This meme is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. The Three Ws are:

What did you recently finish reading?

Collecting Cooper

People are disappearing in Christchurch. Cooper Riley, a psychology professor, doesn’t make it to work one day. Emma Green, one of his students, doesn’t make it home. When ex-cop Theodore Tate is released from a four-month prison stint, he’s asked by Green’s father to help find Emma. After all, Tate was in jail for nearly killing her in a DUI accident the year before, so he owes him. Big time. What neither of them knows is that a former mental patient is holding people prisoner as part of his growing collection of serial killer souvenirs. Now he has acquired the ultimate collector’s item—an actual killer.

Meanwhile, clues keep pulling Tate back to Grover Hills, the mental institution that closed down three years ago. Very bad things happened there. Those who managed to survive would prefer keeping their memories buried. Tate has no choice but to unearth Grover Hills’ dark past if there is any chance of finding Emma Green and Cooper Riley alive.

I feel like it took me forever to read Collecting Cooper, which is unusual since I did enjoy it!

What are you currently reading?

Cross Her Heart

Lisa lives for her daughter Ava, her job, and her best friend Marilyn, but when a handsome client shows an interest in her, Lisa starts daydreaming about sharing her life with him too. Maybe she’s ready now. Maybe she can trust again. Maybe it’s time to let her terrifying secret past go. Then her daughter rescues a boy from drowning and their pictures are all over the news for everyone to see. Lisa’s world explodes, and she finds everything she has built threatened. Not knowing whom she can trust, it’s up to her to face her past to save what she holds dear.

I really loved the crazy ending to Pinborough’s novel Behind Her Eyes. Can’t wait to see what ending she comes up with this time!

What do you think you’ll read next?

Liar Liar

Detective Helen Grace has never seen such destruction. Six fires in twenty-four hours. Two people dead. Several more injured. It’s as if someone wants to burn the city to the ground…

With the whole town on high alert, Helen and her team must sift through the rubble to find the arsonist, someone whose thirst for fire—and control—is reducing entire lives to ashes.

One misstep could mean Helen’s career—and more lives lost. And as the pressure mounts and more buildings burn, Helen’s own dark impulses threaten to consume her…

Another Helen Grace novel! I’m obsessed!!

 

What are your WWW? Have you read Collecting Cooper, Cross Her Heart or Liar Liar?

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