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donnek's review against another edition
4.0
It’s nice to catch up with Meg and her K9 partner, Hawk, and the rest of the FBI K9 team in this second installment. I love stories about K9 SAR teams; they always exhibit the truly magnificent strengths and abilities of amazing working dogs and their handlers. I also like Meg, who is a pretty bad@$$ FBI K9 handler as well as her sister, Cara, who owns and runs a K9 training center. Meg and Cara live together and between the two of them they have three doggies, Hawk (Lab), Saki (Pitbull) and Blink (Greyhound). This makes them good people in my book as well as their parents who own and run an animal rescue sanctuary.
The book summary introduces the primary storyline of the killer using codes that the FBI have to crack first in order to know where the killer has hidden his victims. What the book summary doesn’t really say is that the killer is leaving messages on the victims dog (none of the victims dogs are killed or harmed) and all the messages are addressed to Meg. Then there’s the fact that all of the victims look like Meg too. Meg shares the case and messages with Cara who actually cracks the codes before the FBI code breakers and discovers that the keys to the codes are also linked to Meg too. This has Meg on high alert because Cara also looks a lot like Meg too.
Most of the story revolves around cracking the killer’s codes and trying to rescue the victims before they die. Eventually, the FBI finds out that Meg has shared the case with outsiders and Meg is suspended for disobeying an order as well as FBI protocol. Throughout the story, the killer becomes more unhinged and more personal with Meg. The final abductions have the killer sending the message directly to just to Meg because the killer assumes that FBI is the one that is figuring out the codes really fast. Meg heads out without FBI support to save the victims. It’s a scary and absolutely frightening scene.
The continued character development of Meg and to some degree Cara and her fellow K9 teammates were well done. Some I’ve come to like more and others, I now don’t like or trust. The pacing was fast and action packed with the Meg and the team racing from one scene to another. The writing was also well done. I like how Driscoll started each chapter with some tidbit or trivia about some element of the civil war. The killer was using civil war heroes and locations in the messages. In the last installment, Driscoll used SAR training vocabulary and training in the chapter introductions. I listened to the audiobook and the narrator, Angela Dawe, was great at creating intensity at all the right parts. I’m looking at an overall rating of 4.1 that I will be rounding down to a 4star review.
The book summary introduces the primary storyline of the killer using codes that the FBI have to crack first in order to know where the killer has hidden his victims. What the book summary doesn’t really say is that the killer is leaving messages on the victims dog (none of the victims dogs are killed or harmed) and all the messages are addressed to Meg. Then there’s the fact that all of the victims look like Meg too. Meg shares the case and messages with Cara who actually cracks the codes before the FBI code breakers and discovers that the keys to the codes are also linked to Meg too. This has Meg on high alert because Cara also looks a lot like Meg too.
Most of the story revolves around cracking the killer’s codes and trying to rescue the victims before they die. Eventually, the FBI finds out that Meg has shared the case with outsiders and Meg is suspended for disobeying an order as well as FBI protocol. Throughout the story, the killer becomes more unhinged and more personal with Meg. The final abductions have the killer sending the message directly to just to Meg because the killer assumes that FBI is the one that is figuring out the codes really fast. Meg heads out without FBI support to save the victims. It’s a scary and absolutely frightening scene.
The continued character development of Meg and to some degree Cara and her fellow K9 teammates were well done. Some I’ve come to like more and others, I now don’t like or trust. The pacing was fast and action packed with the Meg and the team racing from one scene to another. The writing was also well done. I like how Driscoll started each chapter with some tidbit or trivia about some element of the civil war. The killer was using civil war heroes and locations in the messages. In the last installment, Driscoll used SAR training vocabulary and training in the chapter introductions. I listened to the audiobook and the narrator, Angela Dawe, was great at creating intensity at all the right parts. I’m looking at an overall rating of 4.1 that I will be rounding down to a 4star review.
hdmartin88's review
5.0
A good follow up to the first book. The narrator does a good job. I’ll definitely be listening to the next book in the series.
daisyreads1171's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
shksprsis's review
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
tex2flo's review
4.0
Clever mystery using references to the American Civil War for the clues to getting the mystery solved. I can always be swayed to read if dogs play a large part and this one uses the talents of a scent specialist named Hawk to be a hero.
crazyanutjanut's review
4.0
I was disappointed in the first book in this series, Lone Wolf. The characters seemed 2 dimensional and the dialogue was cliche. This, the 2nd book, was quite a bit better. The dialogue is predictable, but there's more character development. I still recommend reading the first one so you have some background on the characters.
sarahbelle's review
4.0
I loved this book and couldn’t put it down. I really liked the characters. Meg, Cara, Webb, Clay, etc. They were all great. I really loved the relationship of Meg and Hawk. The details of the relationships with the handlers and their K9 was awesome. I think it was very well written.