To Darkness and to Death - Julia Spencer-Fleming

Door 13 Advent

 

Book: Read... the 4th book in a series

 

If this wasn't the fourth book in the series, I might have set it aside after the first chapter.

 

It opens with a woman awakening alone and finding herself bound and with no knowledge of where she is or how she got there. It was scenes like that that led to me abandoning "Criminal Minds". It's too close to turning horror into either banality or voyeurism.

 

The book righted itself quickly, coming back to characters and a writing style that I recognise. I hoping this one won't become yet another look at the bad things men do to women books that has a subtext of wrong but compelling tha t find repulsive.