I love the Maggie O'Dell series, it's one of my personal favorites. I like Maggie's character, I love the profiling aspects to these books. But this one was a little bit of a disappointment to me. I had a major issue with how it was written: Maggie seemed to me to be a secondary character in this book. She's the main character, she needs to be portrayed as the main character! For whatever reason, Ms. Kava kept jumping back and forth with the other characters leading the story, rather than Maggie. I like Maggie's character, I was disappointed that she seemed to have such a small role in this particular book. Now, that's not to say that I didn't enjoy the book, because I did. But, I only gave it a 4 star rating because of Maggie's character having what seemed to me like such a minor role.

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I couldn't put this book down once I started reading it. Alex Kava has covered a subject I wasn't even aware of,
and has done it in suspense of a hurricane. She is one
of my favorite authors.

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The Maggie O'Dell series is one of my favorites but I feel like this particular book has been my least favorite of the series.

I feel like Kava wrote this book in a hurry and threw together a topic. After the first couple chapters I had already figured out the book and how it was probably going to end. Usually Kava's books have a great twist or you just can't figure it out till the end. Sadly I was disappointed this time.

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I'll give this a weak I like it rating just because I like the author and the Maggie series, however, this one seemed to lack something--as I kept reading I had the feeling I had read it before so I think the storyline is not a new one and it has been used in other books before this one. If you want a short quick afternoon read then I'd recommend this one, the chapter are short and you'll through by the end of the day.

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I'm just not finding this book as exciting as her other novels. It just can't seem to keep my interest. I find myself reading a few chapters and putting it down to go do other things. With only 259 pages, this should have been a quick read but after three days I was still only halfway through it. You would think with a category 5 hurricane and a cooler filled with body parts, this would be an exciting fast paced book - so not the case.

It finally picked up the pace and got interesting though not exciting. All in all not as good as usual but not a bad story either.

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