A psychological thriller about a brother sister serial killing team--and their slow descent into amoral mayhem.
Follow the Wilde twins in a twisted tale of love and loyalty...
GENRE: Psychological Thriller
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Book 3 SOULMATES:
As young adults, Tania and Trevor attempt a fresh start in terms of paying their debts to society. When the siblings both find themselves in unfulfilling marriages, they become increasingly drawn to each other for comfort and solace. The profound evil from their past is back to haunt them with a chilling reminder: You can get away with this, again...
Can Tania and Trevor trust each other with fighting their inner demons, or will they embrace their dark side to the bittersweet end?
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Trevor and Tania are adults now. Heading off to college in California after getting away with murders in multiple states. This final book in their trilogy follows them from ages 18-25 as they finish college, get married (to other people), and struggle to figure out themselves and what they want out of life.
In the end they come together after murdering their spouses and go on a final murder spree that they get a little too sloppy with and ultimately becomes their final demise.
This one definitely didn’t progress as I expected it to after the last book. I figured they would decide to stay together and get their murdering on and whatnot. I did not expect Trevor to (quite frankly, out of the blue) up and “leave” Tania to get married. This seemed really random and out of character for him (considering his obsession with Tania).
I think if we had more page time with them during their college years it might have made more sense. But their college years were so glossed over compared to their childhood (in book one) and their high school years (in book two).
In the end though I think Trevor and Tania separated and did the things they did out of a desperation to be “normal”. Throughout their lives during all three books they both do things just for the sake of appearing normal. And so I think this was Trevor’s reasoning (as well as Tania’s for getting married).
They are absolutely horrible people. They have really no limits as to who they target (babies, toddlers, men, women, girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands, wives, teens, their parents). It makes no difference to them who they murder. And while the murders aren’t all graphically depicted, they do get more and more violent and heartless.
This isn’t love story. Yes, I think Tania and Trevor loved each other in the only way they know how. But anyone else was fair game, which meant that I was in no way sad with them dying in the end. If anyone needed to be eradicated, it was these two. Their story started out tragic with what they went through as children, but murder quickly became their happy place and this fictional world is a better place without them.
I did find their story fascinating even though it was horrific too. I was pretty sucked into their story and it was a pretty crazy journey to watch them from kids all the way up until they were adults. And wanted to see how it ended for them. Well, I think it was appropriate that it ended with them dead. If they had ended up in jail then they could’ve possibly still done more damage.
The only thing I think could’ve made the ending better would’ve been an epilogue about how their story ended up on one of those true crime snows Tania was obsessed with. I was thrilled that their first victim, Billy’s, brother was the one who “caught” them in the end. That’s true poetic justice!
Overall it was a really fascinating trilogy about the evolution of these twin serial killers and their ultimate downfall. I’d recommend it for those who like psychological thrillers where you’re in the psychopath/sociopath’s head. It’s interesting, but they are 100% villains until the very end.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.