Review: Wicked Fallout

Convicted of six murders when she was just fifteen, the notorious Ryann Wilkanson hasn’t been able to act on her darkest, deadliest urges for twelve years. She’s exhausted her appeals and has little hope of ever getting out of prison and back to hunting.

Until a media-hungry legal team mounts a campaign to do the impossible—get her immediately released with a commuted sentence.

Forensic psychiatrist Nancy Clafin has mere weeks to evaluate Ryann’s current mental state against her grisly past to determine if she’s changed. But under the shadow of her own questionable history, it’s not easy to separate her personal life from her professional duty.

At least that’s what Ryann is counting on.

Behind the cold steel doors of a Colorado maximum-security prison, will Nancy find a cold-blooded killer or a newly redeemed woman determined to right her past wrongs?

Review

I found this an interesting read, I liked being back in this world but found it not really a sequel more of another way of retelling what we already knew with a little extra. It was an interesting way to tell the story but I found the ending so bad. It was awful, there was so many ways this book could have ended and this was just so meh. I enjoyed the first 90% very much, it was good to get inside Ryann’s head again.

I did find the fact that Lucas was only mentioned but not there annoying because he was a much better character than Bay-ou. I am still convinced that Lucas is a killer too, I would his story explored

Study series new covers

I adore the Study series by Maria V Snyder. I have some in paper back and some on kindle. I saw the full set of 6 study books, all lovely new covers for £12 just before christmas and had to get them before they were all gone. What do you think of these covers? Do you like the books? Here’s the first in the series

These are all beautiful books, none of mine have the writing but I couldn’t find pics on goodreads for them all like that. I prefer no writing it makes it more mesmerising.

Reread Review: Pretty Wicked

The daughter of a local police detective, fifteen-year-old Ryann has spent most of her life studying how to pull off the most gruesome murders her small Colorado town has ever seen.

But killing is only part of it. Ryann enjoys being the reason the cops are frenzied. The one who makes the neighbors lock their doors and windows on a hot summer’s day. The one everyone fears but no one suspects.

Carving out her own murderous legacy proves harder than she predicted. Mistakes start adding up. And with the police getting closer, and her own father becoming suspicious, Ryann has to prove once and for all that she’s smarter than anyone else—or she’ll pay the ultimate price.

Written in a mature YA voice. Some graphic content.

Original Review

This book was unlike anything I had read before. The book was told mainly from Ryann’s POV, who was trying to make herself into one the most infamous names in history. The story follows her escapades and her trying not to get caught. She tries to juggle her school work, keep her family and friends from finding out what she was doing and trying to work out who she was going to kill next and putting it into action.

It was interesting because in most crime and thriller novels the killer is not revealed until the end, in this one it’s on the very first page where we become acquainted with the murderer. You got to know her and her relationships.

I enjoyed the story and seeing if she was going to get caught or not and by who. It was interesting to see all the lies she came up with to cover her tracks, sometimes I do think her family and friends believed them too easily though.

This book is YA and deals with serious issues, the main one being murder. For such a book I think Ryann was portrayed too young and immature at times. Her character was very blase about the situation.

All in all it was a good book but the character would have been a little better more mature and acting smarter.

Reread Review

I still found the Ryann a little immature. I wish we got to know Luc more, he seemed like it was building for him to be a big charter at the end of he book, he just kind of fizzled out. I also found Ryann’s other friends were a bit bland, her best friend just seemed like a name without much personality.

I am currently reading the second in the series although the book has a good enough ending without it.

Still 4 out of 5 stars