Review for Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine
Stillhouse Lake is very different from Rachel Caine's Morganville Vampire series, but I liked it just as much. I did figure out who the killer was early on, but there were some twists and it was an exciting read.
Gina Royal came home with her kids one day to find a nightmare. There was a dead body hanging up in her garage. She is arrested and then found out that her husband, Mel, is a serial killer. Gina is acquitted, but Mel is put on death row.
Gina and her kids have to move and change identities often. There are a lot of people who think she had to have known what her husband was and some think she helped him. Every day she has to look online and print out the horrible things people say. The internet trolls who are relentless. "It's free-floating, a toxic cloud of moral outrage and mob mentality, and it doesn't care who it hurts. Only that it does." Most will never do anything except hide behind a computer and say horrible things. They probably aren't going to find her, but she can't take that chance.
The Royals move to Stillhouse Lake, a tiny town in Tennessee. Gina takes the name Gwen and has become a pretty bad ass woman, but she's still paranoid and afraid. She starts running and shooting. Her house is full of alarms, cameras, and a safe room. The kids start to feel comfortable and even make friends. Things are feeling almost normal until a body shows up in the lake, similar to how Mel disposed of his victims. Everything starts to go downhill from there and Gwen finds herself a suspect when everyone discovers who she really is.
The book ends with a pretty big cliffhanger, but that just makes me want to read the next one even more. I gave this book 4 1/2 stars.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher through netgalley (a wish for it). That did not influence my views on the book.
Gina Royal came home with her kids one day to find a nightmare. There was a dead body hanging up in her garage. She is arrested and then found out that her husband, Mel, is a serial killer. Gina is acquitted, but Mel is put on death row.
Gina and her kids have to move and change identities often. There are a lot of people who think she had to have known what her husband was and some think she helped him. Every day she has to look online and print out the horrible things people say. The internet trolls who are relentless. "It's free-floating, a toxic cloud of moral outrage and mob mentality, and it doesn't care who it hurts. Only that it does." Most will never do anything except hide behind a computer and say horrible things. They probably aren't going to find her, but she can't take that chance.
The Royals move to Stillhouse Lake, a tiny town in Tennessee. Gina takes the name Gwen and has become a pretty bad ass woman, but she's still paranoid and afraid. She starts running and shooting. Her house is full of alarms, cameras, and a safe room. The kids start to feel comfortable and even make friends. Things are feeling almost normal until a body shows up in the lake, similar to how Mel disposed of his victims. Everything starts to go downhill from there and Gwen finds herself a suspect when everyone discovers who she really is.
The book ends with a pretty big cliffhanger, but that just makes me want to read the next one even more. I gave this book 4 1/2 stars.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher through netgalley (a wish for it). That did not influence my views on the book.
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