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Wicked #3
Something Wicked
You Sense Him
Some refer to it as the Colony. To others, it's a cult. But few locals in the Oregon coastal hamlet of Deception Bay have ever been invited to the inner sanctum of Siren Song. Even the sisters who live here, far from strangers who might recoil at their unnerving psychic abilities, don't know all the terrors buried within its walls. . .
You Fear Him
Eight months into a surrogate pregnancy for her sister, Kristina, Detective Savannah Dunbar just wants to wrap up paperwork before taking medical leave. But her department's investigation into a brutal double homicide has suddenly become much more complex--and personal. And now there are disturbing rumors about the Colony, its matriarch, and a long history of bitter secrets. . .
But You Can Never Stop Him
Death has come to Siren Song before. But this time there will be no refuge and no remorse. For everything born in wickedness must die that way--and a killer will not rest until he has claimed them all. . .
Some refer to it as the Colony. To others, it's a cult. But few locals in the Oregon coastal hamlet of Deception Bay have ever been invited to the inner sanctum of Siren Song. Even the sisters who live here, far from strangers who might recoil at their unnerving psychic abilities, don't know all the terrors buried within its walls. . .
You Fear Him
Eight months into a surrogate pregnancy for her sister, Kristina, Detective Savannah Dunbar just wants to wrap up paperwork before taking medical leave. But her department's investigation into a brutal double homicide has suddenly become much more complex--and personal. And now there are disturbing rumors about the Colony, its matriarch, and a long history of bitter secrets. . .
But You Can Never Stop Him
Death has come to Siren Song before. But this time there will be no refuge and no remorse. For everything born in wickedness must die that way--and a killer will not rest until he has claimed them all. . .
480 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
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About the author
Lisa Jackson
271 books9,567 followersLisa Jackson is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of over ninety-five novels, including the Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya Series, the Pescoli and Alvarez Series, the Savannah series, and numerous stand alone novels. She also is the co-author of One Last Breath, Last Girl Standing, and the Colony Series, written with her sister and bestselling author Nancy Bush, as well as the collaborative novels Sinister and Ominous, written with Nancy Bush and Rosalind Noonan. There are over thirty million copies of her novels in print and her writing has been translated into twenty languages.
Before she became a nationally bestselling author, she was a mother struggling to keep food on the table by writing novels, hoping against hope that someone would pay her for them. Today, neck deep in murder, her books appear on The New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly national bestseller lists.
With dozens of bestsellers to her name, Lisa Jackson is a master of taking readers to the edge of sanity—and back—in novels that buzz with dangerous secrets and deadly passions. She continues to be fascinated by the minds and motives of both her killers and their pursuers—the personal, the professional, and the downright twisted. As she builds the puzzle of relationships, actions, clues, lies, and personal histories that haunt her protagonists, she must also confront the fear and terror faced by her victims and the harsh and enduring truth that, in the real world, terror and madness touch far too many lives and families.
Visit http://www.LisaJackson.com where you can find a Media Kit with photos and more information.
Before she became a nationally bestselling author, she was a mother struggling to keep food on the table by writing novels, hoping against hope that someone would pay her for them. Today, neck deep in murder, her books appear on The New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly national bestseller lists.
With dozens of bestsellers to her name, Lisa Jackson is a master of taking readers to the edge of sanity—and back—in novels that buzz with dangerous secrets and deadly passions. She continues to be fascinated by the minds and motives of both her killers and their pursuers—the personal, the professional, and the downright twisted. As she builds the puzzle of relationships, actions, clues, lies, and personal histories that haunt her protagonists, she must also confront the fear and terror faced by her victims and the harsh and enduring truth that, in the real world, terror and madness touch far too many lives and families.
Visit http://www.LisaJackson.com where you can find a Media Kit with photos and more information.
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June 23, 2013
I really wanted to like this book more than I did, but somehow I found it difficult to get into and even harder to stay focused upon. I don't enjoy any book that I can easily be distracted from. I think the main problem was that it seemed to lack cohesion. There were far too many incidental characters and details that didn't add much to the story, and then in the end the characters that mattered most weren't really ones that were mentioned much at all. I had trouble bonding with any of the characters, even the main character Savvy. I think the story could have used a lot of editing to remove some of the unnecessary details and to provide a little better foreshadowing regarding the important plot twists at the very end.
February 18, 2013
I thougth this book of Lisa Jackson's was really good. Her "Wicked" series deals with the women of Siren's Song, a commune like "cult" of women who have special powers. NOW although I'm not really into the paranormal/fantasy/woo-wooo shit, I do find, Lisa Jackson adds a great deal of mystery, suspense, thriller, and a little romance which keeps me coming back. The "special powers" are pretty much more like a 6th sense, they can feel danger, or see something that could happen in the future, so thigns don't get to woo-woo weird like.
September 6, 2013
I just can't!
This just went in circles
That went nowhere.
Too many people,
Doing too many weird things
I just can't!
This just went in circles
That went nowhere.
Too many people,
Doing too many weird things
I just can't!
October 4, 2023
Rating: 4 Stars!!
Review:
This was my first time reading a book by Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush so i had HIGH Expectations since all the reviews on Goodreads were fairly high rated but sadly this one was a little disappointing mainly because of the slow start to it and the drama between 2 of the characters that i felt was unnecessary.
The Characters were OK but none of them really made me say "She/He is my favorite so far."
The Setting was beautifully described which made me feel like i was actually in the book with helping solve the murder/disappearance with them while reading especially when the scenery was described.
Overall an OK Mystery Thriller iin the Wicked and Colony Series but ive read better Thrillers!! I will read more by Lisa and Nancy but i hope their others arent as slow starting as this one was.
Review:
This was my first time reading a book by Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush so i had HIGH Expectations since all the reviews on Goodreads were fairly high rated but sadly this one was a little disappointing mainly because of the slow start to it and the drama between 2 of the characters that i felt was unnecessary.
The Characters were OK but none of them really made me say "She/He is my favorite so far."
The Setting was beautifully described which made me feel like i was actually in the book with helping solve the murder/disappearance with them while reading especially when the scenery was described.
Overall an OK Mystery Thriller iin the Wicked and Colony Series but ive read better Thrillers!! I will read more by Lisa and Nancy but i hope their others arent as slow starting as this one was.
October 27, 2020
It has taken me a while to get really invested in this series. The mystery swirling around the colony of gifted women is definitely strange, but now that I am connected to the characters it really is exciting to see the evil one close in on his targets. There are twist and turns that carry on to the very last page. I look forward to reading Wicked Ways.
March 30, 2013
A little bit chaotic, but the storyline about the Siren Song women (and men) is intriguing. I think I have to keep reading this series.
Overall rating: 3.5/5.0 stars.
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Overall rating: 3.5/5.0 stars.
Reviewed for Affaire de Coeur Magazine. http://affairedecoeur.com.
September 18, 2025
Disappointed in this book. A little too out there! Then at end looks like there is a sequel which I will not real.
July 10, 2013
Something Wicked by Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush is a Kensington/Zebra publication. This was a May, 2013 release.
This is the third book, I believe, in the "Wicked" series.
In Oregon the small enclave of Deception Bay, we revisit the strange family of women that seem to have certain "gifts". The girls are now being cared for by their aunt Catherine. They all feel the imminent arrival of "the devil". He's coming and Catherine is very worried. Worried enough to confide in Savannah, a detective in the Sherriff's department.
Savannah, is pregnant with her sister's baby. She gets the feeling that her sister and brother-in-law are getting cold feet about becoming parents. Her sister has been acting strange lately. Savannah is determined to work until the last possible moment on a murder case where two people were found dead.
Then the unthinkable happens- Savannah's sister disappears and another double homicide takes place. Do these homicides have anything to do with Catherine and her nieces? What does Savannah's sister have to do with any of it and how does it all tie together?
I really could not decide how to rate this book. It was multi-layered mystery, a good dose of suspense and just wee bit of romance. At times there was almost a Gothic feel to it when the book was focused on the "cult" of women. I got a real spooky feeling sometimes while I was reading this book. However, there were times when the story got too busy. The thoughts of the killer, the thoughts of Savannah's sister, the real estate development disaster, the relationships of Mary, the girls mother and the havoc she reeked on the lives of everyone in the community, the murder investigation, and Savannah's pregnancy made it hard to keep up with everything.
There were some unbelievable aspects as well. Savannah is a better woman than me if she can give birth under dire circumstances and be back at work in two days, doing physical activities and able to fit back into her regular clothes right away.
The very tiny amount of romance was also a bit unrealistic, in my opinion. If I had endured these monumental life changes, I just don't think romance would be in the fore front of my mind. I know there was a bit of paranormal nudging to the relationship's development, but under the circumstances, I don't know how appropriate it was to have the relationship start the way it did.
After a period of time had passed, I could see it happening, but I thought it was just way too rushed.
The book had good points and bad points. I do believe we will hear from the "girls" again sometime in the future.
Overall this one gets a C+.
This is the third book, I believe, in the "Wicked" series.
In Oregon the small enclave of Deception Bay, we revisit the strange family of women that seem to have certain "gifts". The girls are now being cared for by their aunt Catherine. They all feel the imminent arrival of "the devil". He's coming and Catherine is very worried. Worried enough to confide in Savannah, a detective in the Sherriff's department.
Savannah, is pregnant with her sister's baby. She gets the feeling that her sister and brother-in-law are getting cold feet about becoming parents. Her sister has been acting strange lately. Savannah is determined to work until the last possible moment on a murder case where two people were found dead.
Then the unthinkable happens- Savannah's sister disappears and another double homicide takes place. Do these homicides have anything to do with Catherine and her nieces? What does Savannah's sister have to do with any of it and how does it all tie together?
I really could not decide how to rate this book. It was multi-layered mystery, a good dose of suspense and just wee bit of romance. At times there was almost a Gothic feel to it when the book was focused on the "cult" of women. I got a real spooky feeling sometimes while I was reading this book. However, there were times when the story got too busy. The thoughts of the killer, the thoughts of Savannah's sister, the real estate development disaster, the relationships of Mary, the girls mother and the havoc she reeked on the lives of everyone in the community, the murder investigation, and Savannah's pregnancy made it hard to keep up with everything.
There were some unbelievable aspects as well. Savannah is a better woman than me if she can give birth under dire circumstances and be back at work in two days, doing physical activities and able to fit back into her regular clothes right away.
The very tiny amount of romance was also a bit unrealistic, in my opinion. If I had endured these monumental life changes, I just don't think romance would be in the fore front of my mind. I know there was a bit of paranormal nudging to the relationship's development, but under the circumstances, I don't know how appropriate it was to have the relationship start the way it did.
After a period of time had passed, I could see it happening, but I thought it was just way too rushed.
The book had good points and bad points. I do believe we will hear from the "girls" again sometime in the future.
Overall this one gets a C+.
March 23, 2017
Possible unfairly of me it is getting a 2 star rating. It is, for the most part, competently written. It gets a 2 because it is just so damn trite - damsel in distress saved by a handsome, rugged, strong patriarchal archetype.
Just shoot me now.
Just shoot me now.
June 29, 2013
Ok, this one was a little too queer for me....
August 15, 2025
"Something Wicked (Wicked #3; Colony, #5) by Lisa Jackson was an intense thriller book. The book was engrossing that it only took a few days to read the entire book. I read this book as a standalone and it surpassed my expectations. A cult of women with powers which involved the characters in one way or another. Romance, mystery and thrilling. A must read.
November 14, 2022
Magic and murder.
March 7, 2024
Found this gem at our free community library and it didn’t disappoint. This book had me glued to it. So many twist and turns. I’m only sad I got introduced to this series at the second book.
June 20, 2024
I am very sorry to any other autho who is named Lisa Jackson but I am avoiding that author name from now on
August 20, 2025
good read! ending disappointment, leaves you hanging.
August 4, 2021
Pretty wicked, yes ! Set on the Oregon coast a family of women with different super powers. And then the men with evil super powers. Law enforcement tangled with family and quite a tale is woven.
February 6, 2018
This book was okay. Sad and weird are the firs words that come to mind after finishing the book. I’m not really sure what to make of this book.
March 22, 2024
Decent characters, fairly absurd woo woo powers, improbable plot twists, but still good pulpy fun. If I can keep the eye rolling on an even keel, I might read more of the series.
April 12, 2019
Just too unbelievable. Felt like it was just churned out....if I had been reading it and not "listening" in the car I would have abandoned.
April 17, 2015
Savannah is acting as a surrogate for her sister Kristina & Hale St. Cloud. But Kristina isn't acting like herself and and at various times ask both her husband Hale and sister Savannah if they believe in sorcery.
Before taking maternity leave Savannah is hoping to wrap the Donatella case up, she has also been asked to investigate Mary's death by Catherine who wants the investigation kept on the DL. While Savannah heads to Portland to interview some Bancroft employees, Kristina goes to meet her lover "Good Time Charlie" aka Declan Jr (Mary told him he was Declan Bancroft's son) who attempts to kill her. Kristina is found still alive and taken to the hospital. Hale calls Savannah to tell her and she starts home from Portland only to be caught in a storm in the mountain pass when she goes into labor. When Hale finds out Savannah is wrecked on the side of the road and realizes that the emergency services are stretched thin he goes to rescue Savannah himself, and winds up delivering his son on the side of the road. Shortly after Hale, Savannah and Baby Declan get to the hospital Kristina dies.
Catherine is in the hospital after "falling" at Siren Song and Ravinia and Ophelia are there with her. Ravinia takes the chance to talk to Savannah. Catherine also starts opening up to Ravinia and gets her to help with digging up Mary's body and putting it in the grave with Mary's tombstone on it and removing the bones of Declan Jr's Father. When they dig up the grave they discover "the bones" are missing Catherine realizes Silas (Mary's son with Hale's Father) removed the bones and burned them on Echo Island after he gives Ravinia the adoption papers Catherine was looking for. Catherine also ask Ravinia to find her daughter Elizabeth and keep her safe when Ravinia leaves Siren Song. Ravinia seems to be accompanied on her journey by a mysterious Wolf.
Charlie captures Savannah and takes her to the Donatella house, and uses Savannah to lure Hale there. Hale calls and tells Detective Clausen Savannah is in trouble and Clausen says he will meet him at Bancroft Bluff. Clausen gets to the Donatella house before Hale and Charlie shots him, but Savannah manages to escape. While Charlie is pursuing Savannah a homeless man (Mickey) enters the Donatella house and starts building a fire. Shortly after that Hale arrives and then Charlie enters the house intent on killing Hale. Mickey manages to trip Charlie and he falls into the fire. Savannah enters the home and a badly burnt Charlie shoots at Savannah and Hale but hits Mickey before he escapes with the help of Hale's former nanny.
Really wished more questions were answered in the book, the secrets seemed to be doled out sparingly and there always seem to be new questions that need answers.
* I think Mickey/Silas/Wolf may have been the same person. And Mickey's fate is unknown. We know he was hit, but we do not know if he survived his wounds.
Before taking maternity leave Savannah is hoping to wrap the Donatella case up, she has also been asked to investigate Mary's death by Catherine who wants the investigation kept on the DL. While Savannah heads to Portland to interview some Bancroft employees, Kristina goes to meet her lover "Good Time Charlie" aka Declan Jr (Mary told him he was Declan Bancroft's son) who attempts to kill her. Kristina is found still alive and taken to the hospital. Hale calls Savannah to tell her and she starts home from Portland only to be caught in a storm in the mountain pass when she goes into labor. When Hale finds out Savannah is wrecked on the side of the road and realizes that the emergency services are stretched thin he goes to rescue Savannah himself, and winds up delivering his son on the side of the road. Shortly after Hale, Savannah and Baby Declan get to the hospital Kristina dies.
Catherine is in the hospital after "falling" at Siren Song and Ravinia and Ophelia are there with her. Ravinia takes the chance to talk to Savannah. Catherine also starts opening up to Ravinia and gets her to help with digging up Mary's body and putting it in the grave with Mary's tombstone on it and removing the bones of Declan Jr's Father. When they dig up the grave they discover "the bones" are missing Catherine realizes Silas (Mary's son with Hale's Father) removed the bones and burned them on Echo Island after he gives Ravinia the adoption papers Catherine was looking for. Catherine also ask Ravinia to find her daughter Elizabeth and keep her safe when Ravinia leaves Siren Song. Ravinia seems to be accompanied on her journey by a mysterious Wolf.
Charlie captures Savannah and takes her to the Donatella house, and uses Savannah to lure Hale there. Hale calls and tells Detective Clausen Savannah is in trouble and Clausen says he will meet him at Bancroft Bluff. Clausen gets to the Donatella house before Hale and Charlie shots him, but Savannah manages to escape. While Charlie is pursuing Savannah a homeless man (Mickey) enters the Donatella house and starts building a fire. Shortly after that Hale arrives and then Charlie enters the house intent on killing Hale. Mickey manages to trip Charlie and he falls into the fire. Savannah enters the home and a badly burnt Charlie shoots at Savannah and Hale but hits Mickey before he escapes with the help of Hale's former nanny.
Really wished more questions were answered in the book, the secrets seemed to be doled out sparingly and there always seem to be new questions that need answers.
* I think Mickey/Silas/Wolf may have been the same person. And Mickey's fate is unknown. We know he was hit, but we do not know if he survived his wounds.
May 9, 2021
I don’t understand why so many did not like this book. I thought it was very good. Yes, there were a lot of characters but it was not difficult to figure out who was who. The books should be read in sequence. The main character is Detective Savannah (Savvy) Dunbar who is a surrogate mother for her sister Kristina. She is only a few weeks away from giving birth and should not have been driving in a blizzard. Stupid on her part. She was in a hurry to get to the hospital where Kristina is fighting for her life after she was nearly killed. Savvy has been told by several that Kristina was seen in one of the empty houses having sex with a man that is called "good time Charlie".
When she starts having contractions, she calls Hale St. Cloud, Kristina's husband, who hurries to find her. He helps deliver his son and takes Savvy and the baby to the hospital where Kristina is. Another person has been brought here too. Catherine, the leader of the colony, fell in the snow and hit her head. She tells Savvy about the son of a man who tried to rape her. This son has the evil of his father and is coming to kill Catherine and the others. He is the one who killed her sister Mary. But who is Charlie? No one really knows who his real name is or where he can be found. He thinks he is the son of Declan Bancroft and the company should be his.
He forced Kristina into wild sex and she was there when he shot and killed the owners of the house. He thought he had killed her when he hit her in the head with a wooden beam and he sat beside her waiting for her to die but she held on spoiling it for him. Now he tries the same thing with Savvy but she blocks him and thinks about Hale and the baby.
He had taken Savvy and Hale was on the way to rescue her. One of the detectives came first and Charlie shot him and watched the life leave his eyes. Savvy got loose and ran but he was after her. He came back when he heard Hale. Savvy looked and saw three figures--Hale, Charlie, and the homeless man Mickey. There was a fight and Charlie fell into the fire. Savvy ran to Hale and Charlie disappeared.
Charlie was receiving telepathic messages from someone that he thought was one of the sisters in the colony. The messenger was a man. Who? Another brother?
A lot going on but I enjoyed the book.
When she starts having contractions, she calls Hale St. Cloud, Kristina's husband, who hurries to find her. He helps deliver his son and takes Savvy and the baby to the hospital where Kristina is. Another person has been brought here too. Catherine, the leader of the colony, fell in the snow and hit her head. She tells Savvy about the son of a man who tried to rape her. This son has the evil of his father and is coming to kill Catherine and the others. He is the one who killed her sister Mary. But who is Charlie? No one really knows who his real name is or where he can be found. He thinks he is the son of Declan Bancroft and the company should be his.
He forced Kristina into wild sex and she was there when he shot and killed the owners of the house. He thought he had killed her when he hit her in the head with a wooden beam and he sat beside her waiting for her to die but she held on spoiling it for him. Now he tries the same thing with Savvy but she blocks him and thinks about Hale and the baby.
He had taken Savvy and Hale was on the way to rescue her. One of the detectives came first and Charlie shot him and watched the life leave his eyes. Savvy got loose and ran but he was after her. He came back when he heard Hale. Savvy looked and saw three figures--Hale, Charlie, and the homeless man Mickey. There was a fight and Charlie fell into the fire. Savvy ran to Hale and Charlie disappeared.
Charlie was receiving telepathic messages from someone that he thought was one of the sisters in the colony. The messenger was a man. Who? Another brother?
A lot going on but I enjoyed the book.
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June 10, 2013Interesting
While I cant dislike the book I was not thrilled with it.
I have read better books in this genre.
The biggest hurdle that I had was not on the writing but on the way it read on my Nook. The page numbers were in the middle of the pages and the authors names also. Most of it was formatted as double spacing. Some areas were single spaced but 95% was formatted weird.
The murder possession theme was slightly weird but all in all an interesting read. I thought the changes of thoughts were a bit abrupt. (My feeling on this may have been the way it was formatted.)
All in all I give it a 3. It wasn’t horrible but it wasn’t that memorable. I just finished it yesterday and all I can remember of the characters is Sister 1 (Detective) is surrogate for sister 2 and husband. Husband builds houses and they are falling into the ocean. Double murder in one of the condemned houses. Enter group of women with special “Gifts” who live locked away from the rest of the population.
Sister 2 thinks she is going nuts and Sister 1 is having fantasies about Sister 2’s husband. Enter murder ‘brother’ of women with “gifts”. He kills a bunch of people with no evidence at any crime scene. Sister 2 is killed and sister 1 is still on the case. Too many characters to keep up with on a poorly formatted version. Hopefully that will be fixed soon.
If your into the paranormal you will probably like it a lot. It does have that.
While I cant dislike the book I was not thrilled with it.
I have read better books in this genre.
The biggest hurdle that I had was not on the writing but on the way it read on my Nook. The page numbers were in the middle of the pages and the authors names also. Most of it was formatted as double spacing. Some areas were single spaced but 95% was formatted weird.
The murder possession theme was slightly weird but all in all an interesting read. I thought the changes of thoughts were a bit abrupt. (My feeling on this may have been the way it was formatted.)
All in all I give it a 3. It wasn’t horrible but it wasn’t that memorable. I just finished it yesterday and all I can remember of the characters is Sister 1 (Detective) is surrogate for sister 2 and husband. Husband builds houses and they are falling into the ocean. Double murder in one of the condemned houses. Enter group of women with special “Gifts” who live locked away from the rest of the population.
Sister 2 thinks she is going nuts and Sister 1 is having fantasies about Sister 2’s husband. Enter murder ‘brother’ of women with “gifts”. He kills a bunch of people with no evidence at any crime scene. Sister 2 is killed and sister 1 is still on the case. Too many characters to keep up with on a poorly formatted version. Hopefully that will be fixed soon.
If your into the paranormal you will probably like it a lot. It does have that.
October 3, 2013
A dark supernatural thriller, Something Wicked will send a shiver up your spine. I'm sure I'll catch some flack for this, but it is my opinion that men write better horror than women do. I'm not so close minded that I don't give female authors a chance, obviously since I entered the giveaway for the book. In any case Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush can give any male author of horror a run for their money.
This is the first book by either author that I have read. As I understand it, Lisa Jackson tends to fall into the romantic suspense category. So I would imagine that some of her normal readers may be disappointed since this book is light on romance. I hope they would at least give it a shot though because it is a great read.
**I have received a free copy of this book through a GoodReads First Reads Giveaway.
May 20, 2013
SOMETHING WICKED is a suspense mystery which leaves the reader guessing until the end as to the killers true identity. Although it is part of a series, I had no problems following the story even though I'd not read any of the others.
The story opens with Echo Island and the discovery of a dead body posing more questions than answers. Then, we go on to meet the main character of the story, Savvy who works as a detective and is very pregnant. At times the story is disappointing when you realise scenes are just too unreal for words, ie having a baby, in a blizzard and back at work the next day and at others you're wondering how could you kill this character off. Overall the story is excellent and if you like a good mystery you'll love this book. Be warned though, there's more coming in this series.
The story opens with Echo Island and the discovery of a dead body posing more questions than answers. Then, we go on to meet the main character of the story, Savvy who works as a detective and is very pregnant. At times the story is disappointing when you realise scenes are just too unreal for words, ie having a baby, in a blizzard and back at work the next day and at others you're wondering how could you kill this character off. Overall the story is excellent and if you like a good mystery you'll love this book. Be warned though, there's more coming in this series.
February 21, 2013
I hope I remember to not ever pick up this author's books again! Just awful!
September 1, 2014
Trash. Dumb. Too complicated. Terrible ending. I listened. Do not know why I kept listening. Unbelievable that average rating is more than three stars.
December 17, 2020
Had mixed feeling about this one. It was a fun and exciting read but just too much going on for me. Then the end left me wondering.
April 20, 2019
This book is a complete mess! How did it get such a high review? Or even past the editors desk to be published? It's so full of contradictions and ignores facts stated repeatedly in previous books in the series. I take back everything I said in the past about worst books I've read because this one takes the cake as worst book in the history of the world! I would give it negative 5 stars.
A short summary that should replace the blurb for this book. Middle aged woman who acts like she's 13 and throws tantrums like she's 2 has some how passed her classes and been miraculously hired as a cop (who I will never call a heroine because she is dumber than a box of rocks) looks into a bunch of murders while 9 months pregnant without a care in the world for the child she's carrying. The crimes are carried out by a very sick psychotic man who only thinks about incestuous sex and murder to which we get every little detail over and over again while he either kills or masturbates in every scene he is in. It takes forever to get to the climax which is the last 4 pages with no resolution since the authors thought it would be great to have a cliffhanger ending to try and get another book out of this utter pile of shit they are trying to pass off as a story. All of this takes place in a few days and besides one day of snow the whole thing is conducted in the rain since it's the only bit of weather these authors seem to know. Full review below.
Where to start....So the first 3 pages are the exact same as the ending of the last book. Also the fact that Mary lives on this island that anyone can get to but wait reverse that it's really hard to so no one does even though there are rumors and sightings of a crazy women living there? Seriously no one from any social services or police go to see over 2 decades? Catherine has Earl bring Mary supplies when he can which is not often...so basically Mary is starving most of the time because there is no power on this island (no fridge, so no meat) and no fresh fruit or bread from lack of visits. So all she can have are canned goods most of the time but supplies are meager when they get to her. No one comes to check out the house that has a dock and a well maintained garden and Mary must go out of the house sometimes, someone must see her not to mention lights in the windows at night. But no, no one goes there but Earl when he can brave the treacherous water and rocks and stuff. When Catherine finds out Mary is dead, murdered no less, she does not think or want to call the police she and Earl just leave. They leave Mary's rotting body in her house and Catherine doesn't tell Earl anything and keeps this to herself because hey she faked Mary's death a long time ago so....
Cut to a heavily pregnant (with her sister's baby) Savannah "Savvy" Dunbar as she waits to check out a possible crime. It's in the same neighborhood as another crime that the police are trying to solve. She is pissed off because she is ready to pop and everyone, ie. her male coworkers in the police force are treating her like she is a heavily pregnant female who is ready to pop. Most nine month pregnant women working in law enforcement are on desk duty by now but not her and it pisses her off that her coworkers are treating her with care and concern. After having an encounter with a homeless man who so how mysteriously knows she is having a boy on sight she goes back to the station and meets Catherine. Catherine who is waiting in the station for a detective she knows and trusts as far as she trusts anyone. A snap decision and she invites Savvy to her fortress of a home to talk, giving her the ultimatum to be there. Savvy will go even though she knows she will be on maternity leave in a week or so and after she will go see her sister Kristina who's baby it is she's carrying because over the past few months the happy couple aren't so happy and might have changed their minds about the baby. Seriously every relationship and couple in this book and series are miserable, angry, sad and having problems even the main female of the story! (she ends up wanting her sister's husband) Really! Not one good happy couple at all!
Hale is Savvy's brother in law who's building company is in a bind over a bunch of houses they built on sand dunes (really everyone would know it's a bad idea) that are falling into the ocean because they were built on loose ground. He is annoyed with his grandfather/partner and questioning his marriage. He married Savvy's sister while he was in a state of grief and depended on her now he's not sad and just miserable. He gave in to the baby idea and wants to fix his marriage if he can but Kristina is brushing him off and acting weird. He is torn between his wife and the baby situation and lawsuits over the falling houses which there was a murder in not to long ago. Oh and since his wife has gone from strong independent thinking woman to a total flake he is now thinking about her sister who is like she was, but in reality is worse and no one seems to see this.
Back to Savvy now being the first non family to be let into the "colony" or Siren Song the name of the compound house/fortress Catherine lives in with her sister's many adult and late teen/early twenty's daughters. Everything in this house is old and Catherine keeps the girls in even older time clothes and ways. Catherine wants to know about her sister Mary (why ask an outsider is beyond reason since they grew up together and she stuck Mary on an island she couldn't leave). She admits that she lied about how and when Mary died. Catherine starts to talk about genetics (it gets technical and boring here) and says that they, the women of her family, are extra special and so are the males. She won't answer Savvy's questions, denies that anything happened on the island and denies all the girls "powers" even though she just got done saying they have something special about them. The males of the family are worse because they can't control their powers and they go crazy. But how would she know this because there weren't any males before Mary's and their cousin's boy Justice who are the age of some of the older girls in the house? That right there contradicts the other books in the series. In the other books it says there are no boys, then it says that they die as babies or little kids. The bad guy in the previous books was a one off. But now wait! Mary had boys! A few of them! And they're still alive! Catherine adopted them out and has no idea about them since no one kept or even made any paperwork for them. She won't tell Savvy how many children Mary had but says it was almost one a year. (unless some of these boys are twins to some of the girls there really could only be 2 or 3 if that.) Mary's power was sexual and to allure men to her whom she had her children by....that isn't a power that is being a woman who will spread her legs for anyone and doesn't gives two shits about birth control. Catherine seeing her sister only cared about getting fucked and popping out babies gave many away and then took Mary out to the island and stranded her there.
Catherine leaves to get something and Margret aka Maggie aka Cassandra comes down to see Savvy and uses her powers to see things others about the future and people to say Savvy is having a baby boy for her sister and that they are all in danger (again) from a man she can't see. Yet she does know that he is very handsome and will try to kill them all. She leaves as Catherine comes back with the knife used to kill Mary in a bag and puts it on the table and asks Savvy to run tests on it. How she got it who knows because last we saw she left it in Mary's corpse on the island and hasn't been back. She won't answer Savvy's questions, denies that anything (murder) happened on the island and denies all the girls "powers" even though Savvy has just told her about Cassandra and what she said. Savvy takes the knife, says she get the lab to teat it but won't open an investigation! I would fire her. But hey she'll be on maternity leave in just a little bit so what the hay.
Cut to the POV of our bad guy who is calling himself Charlie, good time Charlie that is. His power besides being handsome (we aren't given a description so who knows) is to be able to rape women and have them enjoy it since he stops them from saying no. All he wants to do is fuck and kill in very descriptive detail. Oh and he has the best fantasies about incest. He raped his adopted mother who killed herself after he taunted her about it, and then found Mary and wanted to fuck her. She lead him on and he would do anything to fuck her. She tried to trick him into getting her off the island (which he made it to but Earl didn't see him even though he was there for a while) that supposedly no one can get onto but Earl. She was going to kill him and instead he killed her and thinks that he has absorbed her sexual powers so he is stronger and can lure in any female he wants. He masturbates like crazy anytime and anywhere including right after he has killed a woman and her boyfriend at a bar, then fleeing the scene he thinks about it and has to go fuck some woman or else. Nice bad guy and great that we get a look at all his thoughts like these! Later he feels the presence of another of the gifted women and thinks about how nice it's going to be to find this future lover and fuck them too. For the record they would be half brother and sister but hey since he almost fucked his own mother why not a half sibling?
At this point Savvy runs across and reads a book about the history of the colony. In previous books this has been alluded too but now we as readers get to see it. It details Mary and Catherine's family back to their great grandparents and the beginning of the colony. In previous books we are lead to believe this is a big family, hence the cult status. Nope it's about one child per generation until now so it's not a cult unless you count all the men who came to fuck Mary back in the day. To help Savvy with her not investigation Catherine goes to look for any papers about the children in Mary's private journal which she kept. Nothing in it but weird bits about Mary fucking and taking men from other women and trying to take a man from Catherine, surprise!
Savvy is refusing desk duty (and smart advice to take it easy) and keeps on looking into the murders at the bluffs and decides to go over a snowy pass right before a snow storm (again against everyone's advice and her own internal concerns) to interview people who might know something about the buildings the murders took place in. Mean while her sister is going crazy and, oh, having an affair which she tries to break off and gets killed for because of course the man she was banging on the side is good time Charlie, who has gotten a peek at Savvy and thinks it would be great to fuck her too. Savvy learns of her sister's cheating but refuses to believe it. She gets a call about her sister getting killed (she's dead but they stretch that out just a bit) and rushes back in the middle of the storm and in labor, which she thought she was in before she went out in the storm. She gets into a wreck on the pass after going around a road block so no one will be around to help. She calls her brother in law instead of real help and of course he leaves his hurt wife and goes to rescue her himself. He gets to her but she has the baby in his car and it's a long while before they get to the hospital. Meanwhile Catherine has been fighting with her youngest niece who has been sneaking out of the colony. She says if Ravinia leaves again not to come back and she won't help her or giver her money or anything. Ravinia steals Mary's journal to try and learn the truth that her aunt won't tell her. Catherine gets hurt and Ravinia gets help only to learn one of her sisters beat her to it using a secret cell phone. While getting help Ravinia meets Rand, Earl's son who tells her he is a relative. So the history we read a few pages back is either a figment of our imaginations or they forgot they just wrote it this is not possible.
Savvy now at the hospital runs into Ravinia and Catherine and Catherine tells Savvy she'll help her when she wouldn't even help her own nieces who live with her or who came to her for help from being hunted previously. But Catherine changes her mind and will work with Rivinia to get answers and tells Savvy about Mary's affair with Hale's father and grandfather. Charlie might be Hale's relative (more incest ahead). Savvy meanwhile doesn't really care about the baby only thinking of it in the background but with her sister officially dead now has the hots for her brother in law. Savvy goes back to work the next day and bullies her way into working her sister's case but spend the rest of the book saying she isn't. Also she had no partner and goes out into the field even though she has decided to breast feed the baby who is at home. She has a pump but never uses it, she goes all day without any pain or milk spillage. (I'm going to take a guess and say the authors never gave birth or have forgotten about reality if they have kids.) Savvy goes to see the homeless man from beginning of book and he tells her he knows about her sister's affair and that she helped in the murder she is looking to solve. Charile has been busy all this time killing people Savvy has talked to. Hale has been obsessing about Savvy and his grandfather who thinks he is being stalked and his mother who comes to visit. Everyone but Charlie and the colony people end up at Hale's house including the nanny who is clueless about babies and was hired because she's pretty. Hale's mother confirms the affair's Mary had with their family and leaves, and Hale and his grandfather go back to work. Charlie tries to use his sexual powers on Savvy but it doesn't work as she has fallen in love with Hale and they almost kiss...the day after her sister/his wife's death/murder.
Catherine has Rivinia and Earl dig up Mary and put her where she is supposed to be in case of exhumation by the cops and the bones of the man who fathered Charlie and almost raped Catherine are missing from the gave Mary was supposed to be in. Mary then tells Ravinia she had a baby and gave it away (we are going to guess that this will be revealed later as Savvy with the way the story is going and incest rules of this book). The nanny calls and says she found a gun belonging to her sister, which is probably the murder weapon she has been looking for. When she goes to get it all alone after having pestered her boss hourly for information and progress reports who is out interviewing people who she doesn't call now with her info she is kidnapped by Charlie. Charlie admits to his affair with her sister, the murders (all of them), and that he believe's he is Hale's uncle and stalking Hale's grandfather for what is 'his by right' he is going to rape her and kill her. (At this point I am almost rooting for her death, not rape, that I could do without, she frustrates me that much.) Hale is called out to see this and be murdered but he calls for help on the way, which is only answered by Savvy's 'former' but not really former partner. Charlie kills the 'former' partner, Savvy gets untied and runs for it and Hale almost gets killed by Charlie. But it's the homeless man to the rescue as he trips Charlie who falls into a fire the homeless guy sets, but manages to get away. Meanwhile Ravinia with Catherine's blessing has gotten money, and gotten out of the colony only to run into a 'friend' she has seen before who gives her paper's Catherine wants and leaves her. She goes into town to shop before going home and giving the papers to Catherine after almost deciding not to. They are the papers about all of Mary's sons and some missing pages from Mary's journal. No idea how he got them but what they hey we don't need to know since there might be another book for this. Catherine tells Ravinia that this man might be Silas, Mary's son, who is good and not out of his mind crazy on/with power and won't hurt them. WTF didn't you just spend the whole book and if not that at least one whole chapter telling us that all the males were driven mad with power and would try to kill them all after previous books said that there were NO boys?
Skip ahead three days and Savvy is happily living at Hale's home as his lover and his babies mother, breast feeding away with him looking on, having just buried her sister/his wife and her now officially former partner. Charlie is being taken care of by the nanny who was working for him the whole time planning to get revenge. He is confronted by his mystery lover in his head who he/we learn is his brother not his sister (ick!). Ravinia is busy walking to California and is being followed by a wolf who helps her scare away two men how want to pick her up. WTF is with the wolf? Who knows but it's the last paragraph so we may get to know in the next book if you care to read it between clawing your eyes out, pulling your hair out in chunks and throwing the book across the room in frustration.
Again I ask how this book was ever published. If there is another book count me out of reading it. I have no idea how I got this far since each book was worse the the last. It's like a train wreck you just can't stop staring at or look away from. If there is another book the authors should consult notes or reread the previous books, hire two editors and have numerous proof readers get a crack at it before it even glances at a printer.
A short summary that should replace the blurb for this book. Middle aged woman who acts like she's 13 and throws tantrums like she's 2 has some how passed her classes and been miraculously hired as a cop (who I will never call a heroine because she is dumber than a box of rocks) looks into a bunch of murders while 9 months pregnant without a care in the world for the child she's carrying. The crimes are carried out by a very sick psychotic man who only thinks about incestuous sex and murder to which we get every little detail over and over again while he either kills or masturbates in every scene he is in. It takes forever to get to the climax which is the last 4 pages with no resolution since the authors thought it would be great to have a cliffhanger ending to try and get another book out of this utter pile of shit they are trying to pass off as a story. All of this takes place in a few days and besides one day of snow the whole thing is conducted in the rain since it's the only bit of weather these authors seem to know. Full review below.
Where to start....So the first 3 pages are the exact same as the ending of the last book. Also the fact that Mary lives on this island that anyone can get to but wait reverse that it's really hard to so no one does even though there are rumors and sightings of a crazy women living there? Seriously no one from any social services or police go to see over 2 decades? Catherine has Earl bring Mary supplies when he can which is not often...so basically Mary is starving most of the time because there is no power on this island (no fridge, so no meat) and no fresh fruit or bread from lack of visits. So all she can have are canned goods most of the time but supplies are meager when they get to her. No one comes to check out the house that has a dock and a well maintained garden and Mary must go out of the house sometimes, someone must see her not to mention lights in the windows at night. But no, no one goes there but Earl when he can brave the treacherous water and rocks and stuff. When Catherine finds out Mary is dead, murdered no less, she does not think or want to call the police she and Earl just leave. They leave Mary's rotting body in her house and Catherine doesn't tell Earl anything and keeps this to herself because hey she faked Mary's death a long time ago so....
Cut to a heavily pregnant (with her sister's baby) Savannah "Savvy" Dunbar as she waits to check out a possible crime. It's in the same neighborhood as another crime that the police are trying to solve. She is pissed off because she is ready to pop and everyone, ie. her male coworkers in the police force are treating her like she is a heavily pregnant female who is ready to pop. Most nine month pregnant women working in law enforcement are on desk duty by now but not her and it pisses her off that her coworkers are treating her with care and concern. After having an encounter with a homeless man who so how mysteriously knows she is having a boy on sight she goes back to the station and meets Catherine. Catherine who is waiting in the station for a detective she knows and trusts as far as she trusts anyone. A snap decision and she invites Savvy to her fortress of a home to talk, giving her the ultimatum to be there. Savvy will go even though she knows she will be on maternity leave in a week or so and after she will go see her sister Kristina who's baby it is she's carrying because over the past few months the happy couple aren't so happy and might have changed their minds about the baby. Seriously every relationship and couple in this book and series are miserable, angry, sad and having problems even the main female of the story! (she ends up wanting her sister's husband) Really! Not one good happy couple at all!
Hale is Savvy's brother in law who's building company is in a bind over a bunch of houses they built on sand dunes (really everyone would know it's a bad idea) that are falling into the ocean because they were built on loose ground. He is annoyed with his grandfather/partner and questioning his marriage. He married Savvy's sister while he was in a state of grief and depended on her now he's not sad and just miserable. He gave in to the baby idea and wants to fix his marriage if he can but Kristina is brushing him off and acting weird. He is torn between his wife and the baby situation and lawsuits over the falling houses which there was a murder in not to long ago. Oh and since his wife has gone from strong independent thinking woman to a total flake he is now thinking about her sister who is like she was, but in reality is worse and no one seems to see this.
Back to Savvy now being the first non family to be let into the "colony" or Siren Song the name of the compound house/fortress Catherine lives in with her sister's many adult and late teen/early twenty's daughters. Everything in this house is old and Catherine keeps the girls in even older time clothes and ways. Catherine wants to know about her sister Mary (why ask an outsider is beyond reason since they grew up together and she stuck Mary on an island she couldn't leave). She admits that she lied about how and when Mary died. Catherine starts to talk about genetics (it gets technical and boring here) and says that they, the women of her family, are extra special and so are the males. She won't answer Savvy's questions, denies that anything happened on the island and denies all the girls "powers" even though she just got done saying they have something special about them. The males of the family are worse because they can't control their powers and they go crazy. But how would she know this because there weren't any males before Mary's and their cousin's boy Justice who are the age of some of the older girls in the house? That right there contradicts the other books in the series. In the other books it says there are no boys, then it says that they die as babies or little kids. The bad guy in the previous books was a one off. But now wait! Mary had boys! A few of them! And they're still alive! Catherine adopted them out and has no idea about them since no one kept or even made any paperwork for them. She won't tell Savvy how many children Mary had but says it was almost one a year. (unless some of these boys are twins to some of the girls there really could only be 2 or 3 if that.) Mary's power was sexual and to allure men to her whom she had her children by....that isn't a power that is being a woman who will spread her legs for anyone and doesn't gives two shits about birth control. Catherine seeing her sister only cared about getting fucked and popping out babies gave many away and then took Mary out to the island and stranded her there.
Catherine leaves to get something and Margret aka Maggie aka Cassandra comes down to see Savvy and uses her powers to see things others about the future and people to say Savvy is having a baby boy for her sister and that they are all in danger (again) from a man she can't see. Yet she does know that he is very handsome and will try to kill them all. She leaves as Catherine comes back with the knife used to kill Mary in a bag and puts it on the table and asks Savvy to run tests on it. How she got it who knows because last we saw she left it in Mary's corpse on the island and hasn't been back. She won't answer Savvy's questions, denies that anything (murder) happened on the island and denies all the girls "powers" even though Savvy has just told her about Cassandra and what she said. Savvy takes the knife, says she get the lab to teat it but won't open an investigation! I would fire her. But hey she'll be on maternity leave in just a little bit so what the hay.
Cut to the POV of our bad guy who is calling himself Charlie, good time Charlie that is. His power besides being handsome (we aren't given a description so who knows) is to be able to rape women and have them enjoy it since he stops them from saying no. All he wants to do is fuck and kill in very descriptive detail. Oh and he has the best fantasies about incest. He raped his adopted mother who killed herself after he taunted her about it, and then found Mary and wanted to fuck her. She lead him on and he would do anything to fuck her. She tried to trick him into getting her off the island (which he made it to but Earl didn't see him even though he was there for a while) that supposedly no one can get onto but Earl. She was going to kill him and instead he killed her and thinks that he has absorbed her sexual powers so he is stronger and can lure in any female he wants. He masturbates like crazy anytime and anywhere including right after he has killed a woman and her boyfriend at a bar, then fleeing the scene he thinks about it and has to go fuck some woman or else. Nice bad guy and great that we get a look at all his thoughts like these! Later he feels the presence of another of the gifted women and thinks about how nice it's going to be to find this future lover and fuck them too. For the record they would be half brother and sister but hey since he almost fucked his own mother why not a half sibling?
At this point Savvy runs across and reads a book about the history of the colony. In previous books this has been alluded too but now we as readers get to see it. It details Mary and Catherine's family back to their great grandparents and the beginning of the colony. In previous books we are lead to believe this is a big family, hence the cult status. Nope it's about one child per generation until now so it's not a cult unless you count all the men who came to fuck Mary back in the day. To help Savvy with her not investigation Catherine goes to look for any papers about the children in Mary's private journal which she kept. Nothing in it but weird bits about Mary fucking and taking men from other women and trying to take a man from Catherine, surprise!
Savvy is refusing desk duty (and smart advice to take it easy) and keeps on looking into the murders at the bluffs and decides to go over a snowy pass right before a snow storm (again against everyone's advice and her own internal concerns) to interview people who might know something about the buildings the murders took place in. Mean while her sister is going crazy and, oh, having an affair which she tries to break off and gets killed for because of course the man she was banging on the side is good time Charlie, who has gotten a peek at Savvy and thinks it would be great to fuck her too. Savvy learns of her sister's cheating but refuses to believe it. She gets a call about her sister getting killed (she's dead but they stretch that out just a bit) and rushes back in the middle of the storm and in labor, which she thought she was in before she went out in the storm. She gets into a wreck on the pass after going around a road block so no one will be around to help. She calls her brother in law instead of real help and of course he leaves his hurt wife and goes to rescue her himself. He gets to her but she has the baby in his car and it's a long while before they get to the hospital. Meanwhile Catherine has been fighting with her youngest niece who has been sneaking out of the colony. She says if Ravinia leaves again not to come back and she won't help her or giver her money or anything. Ravinia steals Mary's journal to try and learn the truth that her aunt won't tell her. Catherine gets hurt and Ravinia gets help only to learn one of her sisters beat her to it using a secret cell phone. While getting help Ravinia meets Rand, Earl's son who tells her he is a relative. So the history we read a few pages back is either a figment of our imaginations or they forgot they just wrote it this is not possible.
Savvy now at the hospital runs into Ravinia and Catherine and Catherine tells Savvy she'll help her when she wouldn't even help her own nieces who live with her or who came to her for help from being hunted previously. But Catherine changes her mind and will work with Rivinia to get answers and tells Savvy about Mary's affair with Hale's father and grandfather. Charlie might be Hale's relative (more incest ahead). Savvy meanwhile doesn't really care about the baby only thinking of it in the background but with her sister officially dead now has the hots for her brother in law. Savvy goes back to work the next day and bullies her way into working her sister's case but spend the rest of the book saying she isn't. Also she had no partner and goes out into the field even though she has decided to breast feed the baby who is at home. She has a pump but never uses it, she goes all day without any pain or milk spillage. (I'm going to take a guess and say the authors never gave birth or have forgotten about reality if they have kids.) Savvy goes to see the homeless man from beginning of book and he tells her he knows about her sister's affair and that she helped in the murder she is looking to solve. Charile has been busy all this time killing people Savvy has talked to. Hale has been obsessing about Savvy and his grandfather who thinks he is being stalked and his mother who comes to visit. Everyone but Charlie and the colony people end up at Hale's house including the nanny who is clueless about babies and was hired because she's pretty. Hale's mother confirms the affair's Mary had with their family and leaves, and Hale and his grandfather go back to work. Charlie tries to use his sexual powers on Savvy but it doesn't work as she has fallen in love with Hale and they almost kiss...the day after her sister/his wife's death/murder.
Catherine has Rivinia and Earl dig up Mary and put her where she is supposed to be in case of exhumation by the cops and the bones of the man who fathered Charlie and almost raped Catherine are missing from the gave Mary was supposed to be in. Mary then tells Ravinia she had a baby and gave it away (we are going to guess that this will be revealed later as Savvy with the way the story is going and incest rules of this book). The nanny calls and says she found a gun belonging to her sister, which is probably the murder weapon she has been looking for. When she goes to get it all alone after having pestered her boss hourly for information and progress reports who is out interviewing people who she doesn't call now with her info she is kidnapped by Charlie. Charlie admits to his affair with her sister, the murders (all of them), and that he believe's he is Hale's uncle and stalking Hale's grandfather for what is 'his by right' he is going to rape her and kill her. (At this point I am almost rooting for her death, not rape, that I could do without, she frustrates me that much.) Hale is called out to see this and be murdered but he calls for help on the way, which is only answered by Savvy's 'former' but not really former partner. Charlie kills the 'former' partner, Savvy gets untied and runs for it and Hale almost gets killed by Charlie. But it's the homeless man to the rescue as he trips Charlie who falls into a fire the homeless guy sets, but manages to get away. Meanwhile Ravinia with Catherine's blessing has gotten money, and gotten out of the colony only to run into a 'friend' she has seen before who gives her paper's Catherine wants and leaves her. She goes into town to shop before going home and giving the papers to Catherine after almost deciding not to. They are the papers about all of Mary's sons and some missing pages from Mary's journal. No idea how he got them but what they hey we don't need to know since there might be another book for this. Catherine tells Ravinia that this man might be Silas, Mary's son, who is good and not out of his mind crazy on/with power and won't hurt them. WTF didn't you just spend the whole book and if not that at least one whole chapter telling us that all the males were driven mad with power and would try to kill them all after previous books said that there were NO boys?
Skip ahead three days and Savvy is happily living at Hale's home as his lover and his babies mother, breast feeding away with him looking on, having just buried her sister/his wife and her now officially former partner. Charlie is being taken care of by the nanny who was working for him the whole time planning to get revenge. He is confronted by his mystery lover in his head who he/we learn is his brother not his sister (ick!). Ravinia is busy walking to California and is being followed by a wolf who helps her scare away two men how want to pick her up. WTF is with the wolf? Who knows but it's the last paragraph so we may get to know in the next book if you care to read it between clawing your eyes out, pulling your hair out in chunks and throwing the book across the room in frustration.
Again I ask how this book was ever published. If there is another book count me out of reading it. I have no idea how I got this far since each book was worse the the last. It's like a train wreck you just can't stop staring at or look away from. If there is another book the authors should consult notes or reread the previous books, hire two editors and have numerous proof readers get a crack at it before it even glances at a printer.
July 25, 2019
WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS!
SOMETHING WICKED was not a very good reading experience for me. I have read a lot of Lisa Jackson novels and I may have even read a book or two she wrote with her sister Nancy bush. I have liked her books most of the time. Unfortunately this was one I didn't like and in fact, I really did not even like it at all. Took me forever to finish it and there were times I almost gave up on it but it is rarely I don't finish a book . I wanted to get to the end to see if my theory about the outcome of the story was my own conclusion. I was so mad when I finished and discovered it is part of a series and not even the first book of the series! It was a borrowed book from BookLender and sometimes they don't send series books in order which doesn't really bother me as I don't always read a series in order. That isn't the real problem for me with this book, though. First, when Catherine (?) was asked "What did you behold?" and a few paragraphs later she said something like she would find out what she "beheld " I thought "Oh how stupid" and my mind shut the door on the book right then but I kept going hoping it would improve. It didn't. I didn't like the baby plot line at all and even the major snowstorm element did not save it for me. It was probably the best section of the story. I didn't like the portrayal of the medical staff at the hospital as such jerks and uncaring. Why do writers do that? It is not a very good stereotype to perpetuate so stop it! There were way too many characters and it was hard to keep up with who and all the weird relationships in the book. I found that I didn't like any of them or relate to them in any way EXCEPT for Ravinia. The rebels are always the most interesting! Even then, I couldn't really understand her purpose. I found the story repetitive and that bored me silly. They could have chopped off 100-150 pages and had a better book. And yeh, we know, that
Declan Jr" was a crazy psychopathic killer but did they have to rub it in? They sacrificed good writing and character development for sensationalism and that doesn't fly with me.
I have read enough in this series and i won't be reading another unless there is no other book available on the planet. I already know the ultimate outcome as it has been set up in the book, unless she pulls a Karin Slaughter on her readers, which would be more interesting, but really I don't care. I will probably read more of Lisa Jackson's books (one of my friends is a fan and gave me a bunch of them) but no more Siren Song for me!
SOMETHING WICKED was not a very good reading experience for me. I have read a lot of Lisa Jackson novels and I may have even read a book or two she wrote with her sister Nancy bush. I have liked her books most of the time. Unfortunately this was one I didn't like and in fact, I really did not even like it at all. Took me forever to finish it and there were times I almost gave up on it but it is rarely I don't finish a book . I wanted to get to the end to see if my theory about the outcome of the story was my own conclusion. I was so mad when I finished and discovered it is part of a series and not even the first book of the series! It was a borrowed book from BookLender and sometimes they don't send series books in order which doesn't really bother me as I don't always read a series in order. That isn't the real problem for me with this book, though. First, when Catherine (?) was asked "What did you behold?" and a few paragraphs later she said something like she would find out what she "beheld " I thought "Oh how stupid" and my mind shut the door on the book right then but I kept going hoping it would improve. It didn't. I didn't like the baby plot line at all and even the major snowstorm element did not save it for me. It was probably the best section of the story. I didn't like the portrayal of the medical staff at the hospital as such jerks and uncaring. Why do writers do that? It is not a very good stereotype to perpetuate so stop it! There were way too many characters and it was hard to keep up with who and all the weird relationships in the book. I found that I didn't like any of them or relate to them in any way EXCEPT for Ravinia. The rebels are always the most interesting! Even then, I couldn't really understand her purpose. I found the story repetitive and that bored me silly. They could have chopped off 100-150 pages and had a better book. And yeh, we know, that
Declan Jr" was a crazy psychopathic killer but did they have to rub it in? They sacrificed good writing and character development for sensationalism and that doesn't fly with me.
I have read enough in this series and i won't be reading another unless there is no other book available on the planet. I already know the ultimate outcome as it has been set up in the book, unless she pulls a Karin Slaughter on her readers, which would be more interesting, but really I don't care. I will probably read more of Lisa Jackson's books (one of my friends is a fan and gave me a bunch of them) but no more Siren Song for me!
March 20, 2023
Better than the last one, I guess
After reading the last book in the series, I came back for more like the glutton for punishment I am. And punishment I got.
The repetition still plagues this book as it did the last - the totally unnecessary tendency to reintroduce the reader to every situation as if it were brand new every time it's brought up. The story felt like it went in circles before it finally started going anywhere.
And really, I don't know if either of the authors have ever had a baby, but this was a completely unrealistic portrayal of a woman who has just given birth. In a car. She gets to the hospital and within hours is showered and ready to go? She has clothes belonging to her very recently deceased sister, who she has said is "skin and bones" but also somehow "larger chested" than she is, and just steps into her fresh underwear (this was the funniest part to me, no one who has just given birth just throws on some fresh undies and leaves) and a "blouse and slacks" and it all fits - though the "slacks" don't zip - and she's off. Not only that, but then she just goes back to work? Yeah ok she's the surrogate but come on.
At least there wasn't much of a gag-inducing romantic subplot with "make love" as every other word, but the weird sexual stuff was just as gross, to be honest. Something about these authors just seems really out of touch, from the awkward cursing to the use of the word "slacks" and everywhere in between.
After reading the last book in the series, I came back for more like the glutton for punishment I am. And punishment I got.
The repetition still plagues this book as it did the last - the totally unnecessary tendency to reintroduce the reader to every situation as if it were brand new every time it's brought up. The story felt like it went in circles before it finally started going anywhere.
And really, I don't know if either of the authors have ever had a baby, but this was a completely unrealistic portrayal of a woman who has just given birth. In a car. She gets to the hospital and within hours is showered and ready to go? She has clothes belonging to her very recently deceased sister, who she has said is "skin and bones" but also somehow "larger chested" than she is, and just steps into her fresh underwear (this was the funniest part to me, no one who has just given birth just throws on some fresh undies and leaves) and a "blouse and slacks" and it all fits - though the "slacks" don't zip - and she's off. Not only that, but then she just goes back to work? Yeah ok she's the surrogate but come on.
At least there wasn't much of a gag-inducing romantic subplot with "make love" as every other word, but the weird sexual stuff was just as gross, to be honest. Something about these authors just seems really out of touch, from the awkward cursing to the use of the word "slacks" and everywhere in between.
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