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This book follows serial killer survivor Emma Lewis and US Marshal candidate Travis Bell as they’re recruited by the FBI to interview convicted juvenile killers, and then get tangled up with an active case of a serial killer who targets teenagers.

Enter Simon, a teenage serial killer with a history with Travis, and an interest in Emma. This basically felt like Silence of the Lambs meets YA. Weirdly, Simon was my favorite character, and thought the audiobook narrator did an amazing job with him.

While I liked Emma and Travis’s backstories, I honestly thought their young ages were a little hard to believe. I feel like they should’ve been 21 or 22, but since the New Adult genre still isn’t a thing they were aged down. I wish we could’ve gotten a little more depth into their characters, and developed their buddy-cop relationship a little more. Their original assignment was sidelined super quickly, and I feel like Travis didn’t get as much air time as he should have.

All that said, the writing was wonderful, I enjoyed the pacing and the story, and the audiobook narration was awesome. This book feels like it’s setting up Emma and Travis’s (and Simon’s) partnership up for more adventures and I would totally read them! Definitely recommend to anyone interested in a fun YA crime story.

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Thanks for reading!