Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine 5 ✭

Stillhouse Lake is a horrific story for any mother to read and imagine herself as the main character. Gwen, aka Gina Royal, was once married to a murderer. She was labeled as "Melvin's Little Helper" but she was acquitted at her trial. The problem with the internet is that people can read into, and believe whatever they want. So she has been trying her damnedest to protect her two children from the people who send death threats. These people are sick as hell and think that punishing Gwen and her kids would be some sort of vigilante right they get. 

As a parent, this can be horrific to think about. People sending you death threats to you and your pre-teen/teen children. Gwen has become very militant in their family procedure. They pick up and move at any sign of complications. They don't trust anyone or anything even. Even police, knocks on doors, and even the mail are not trusted things. So to grill this paranoia into the reader, the beginning of this book can feel a little repetitive and slow. 

Even though it has a slow beginning it does pick up. It seems like all at once everything is changing. The family emotions are changing, they're feeling more at peace, and maybe even normal. They are beginning to trust people and then things turn. A body is found mutilated and missing skin just like her ex-husband use to leave around. Most of the town believes its Gwen or her family and from there on out it becomes a steady pace to the end of the book.

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This is book one in the Stillhouse Lake series by Rachel Caine. I decided that I absolutely had to pick this book up not only because it was a Kindle Firsts read but also because I am a fan of Rachel Caine's writing. I have read a handful of her books before. So I had to get while the gettins is good. The next book in the series is Killman Creek.You can pre-order the sequel to the series which will be released December 12, 2017. How about that? A book you can read and the sequel isn't a year away!

Hidden by Kendra Elliot 3 ✭

This is the first book in the Bone Secrets Series by Kendra Elliot. It is a total of a six book series.Lacey Campbell is a former gymnast and the survivor of the Co-ed Killer. Lacey's testimony was the one that put him away in jail. Now eleven years later she is a forensic odontologist, which means she looks at teether and bones. So in the beginning of this book, it is truly devastating when she is inspecting a set of teeth at a homicide and realizes that she knows whom they belong to while they are just sitting in the palm of her hand. They belong to her best friend Suzanne who went missing when they were both attacked by the Co-ed Killer.

Jack Harper is a former cop who now runs his families business. He is seen as a rich "playboy" but thankfully the book doesn't focus on this like a lot of other books where the millionaire playboy is the main love interest. Suzanne's body was discovered on one of his properties. What makes this even more puzzling is that he was one of the cops on the case all those eleven years ago.

This book has many perspectives and sometimes it jumps a little weird. The best way that I can explain it is that they needed to cut down on the size of the book and just cut whole paragraphs of descriptive scene changes. That is the ONLY reason why it is rated so low and that may just be my personal take on the writing and my comprehension of these scene changes. I hope that I am not judging this too harshly because of my personal comprehension issues, but that's just how I felt.

This is an amazing book if it wasn't for that. The characters points of view are written great. It makes you think about who could be the killer many different times. Not only does it give you Jack and Lacey's view but it also shows you the killers perspective, one of the cops on the current case, and even Lacey's report ex-boyfriend/ best friend. I really enjoy mysteries that make you guess along while you read. It's the kind of thing that you have to take a break to really think, did they give me enough clues to figure it out for myself.

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I borrowed this book for FREE using my Prime Reading, but you can also borrow a copy for free using Kindle Unlimited. Prime Reading is free if you already pay for Amazon Prime and it is like a lite version of what you can get with a Kindle Unlimited Subscription. Now that I am done with the #sellout mode, haha.