That’s a pretty extreme reaction for me, and now that I’m finished I have some mixed feelings about it.įirst, I do think it is a fault of the novel that those first 130 pages are stuffed with mainly scene-setting background info. I had seen good reviews for this book and I DNF so rarely that I stuck it out through 130 pages that I felt I was mostly hate-reading. I made it all the way to 45% before it stopped feeling like a drag and finally held my interest. Right off the bat, I have to say that part of the reason this book took me so long to read is that I wasn’t enjoying it. I will do anything I must to defend them.” I have two children in the house, and I’m responsible for their lives-lives that are never safe, never secure. “ In this moment, in all moments now, I can’t afford to be seen as weak. But after years of running, they’ve finally found a place that feels like home, and Gina starts taking risks again, doing whatever it takes to stop running– even when the murders start again, right outside her door. There are too many threats against Melvin Royal’s family for Gina to be open and honest about who she is. She moves again and again, hiding their identities, installing expensive security systems, using temporary phones and concealing their locations even from her own mother. How could she not have known? How could she not have helped? She changes her name, and the names of her kids. But even after the arrests and trials die down, no one seems to believe Gina is innocent.

Gina had two children and a whole life with Melvin Royal before a freak accident put a car through their garage wall and ousted his gory secret hobby. Three months later, I’ve finally finished reading Stillhouse Lake…Ībout the book: Life is no picnic when you unwittingly marry a serial killer. Enter Rachel Caine’s Stillhouse Lake, the first book in her recent thriller series. Everyone was getting lazy after the big holiday meal, so I wanted something thrilling to keep me awake. In the midst of a Christmas food coma, I started my first Kindle Unlimited read.

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