Well okay, this is another highly anticipated, riveting, capturing, action packed, heart throbbing Alex Finlay novel! I just somersaulted three times to celebrate to get the digital arc!

I actually enjoyed this fast pacing, mystery/ thriller which narrated by 3 different POVs!
Five kids did something bad 25 years ago! And now a sociopathic, young female assassin tries to hunt each of them. Correction: Siamese sociopath twins try to kill them!

Five kids fighting against a monster storyline reminded me of Stephen King’s “IT” ! Their reunion after two decades later after one of them dies also the similar storyline!

But those kids are not gang of LOSERS! Of course they lost their loved ones and sent to Savior House: an abusive group home for parentless kids. Just like IT’s losers’ gang: these five kids get bullied by the other troubled members of the home! But there was a monster in that place haunting young girls: most of them vanished into thin air!

Nico, Donnie, Ben, Art and Jenna ( four guys and a girl just like loser team) decide to fight against the monster and….

I’m cutting right here not to give spoilers! We mostly read about the characters’ present: dangerous twins already killed Ben: powerful district judge, father of a little girl, righteous and smartest one of their circle!

Jenna: recruited as assassin of a secret corporation, luckily getting out of the job to live a peaceful life as stay- at-home mom of two girls ( one of them is her problematic step teenage daughter ) but she finds herself to work for last job for saving her family! The target is a tech mogul and she has a history with him. When she tries to run away from crime scene, she gets chased by one of the twins!

Nico: a successful reality show producer with gambling problem and with dangerous connections to Irish mob, finds himself at mine explosion ( another creative attempt of twins to get rid of him)

And Donnie: famous rock star with addiction problem, grieving Ben’s death, is forced to jump from a ship! ( again sociopath twist is on board)

Three of them survive and they realize somebody is after them! Somebody is out there to avenge! But who? Why!

Well: I have to say, I didn’t get connected with these three main characters! The back story about Savior House and its dark secrets were great plot line but those parts cut short and when we read those parts, we abruptly continue to read the present time adventures of the characters. Transitions between past and present were so fast and confusing!

Sociopath twins could only kill one of their targets so the powerful enemy who paid them to cut the loose ends might be stupid to hire the worst kind of assassins! And I actually found the girls not scary but so annoying! They were like cartoonish villanelles!

Overall: pacing and progression of the story kept my attention intact! I liked the main mystery and I enjoyed how the author successfully wrapped things up!

Only thing I didn’t enjoy was character development!

I liked the author’s previous books more but this is still heart pounding, exciting reading keeping you on your toes. I’m giving four action packed, revenge, captivating stars!

I’m always happy to read and review Alex Finlay’a brilliant works!

Many thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press/ Minotaur Books for sharing this amazing digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest opinions.

Sadly, I did not finish this book and I really tried. There was very little introduction as to what happened in the past to the three characters and the chapters jumping between the characters in modern day was too hard to follow and I wasn’t even sure what the book was about.