Publisher: Berkley
Published: February
12, 2019
ISBN: 978-0399586729
Genre: Romantic
Suspense
Format: Print from
Publisher
FOUR HEARTS
Three emotionally and physically damaged people. Each struggling for their own survival in their
own way. While Gideon and Daisy have
people around them, “Sonny” is on his own. Their early stories are similar—their choices
as adults couldn’t be further apart.
As a child Daisy’s overprotective father, Frederick, took her
and her sisters from their home – desperate to keep them safe from an unknown
assailant. Complicating his life is that
he suffers from PTSD after being held prisoner years before. Frederick comes from a place of love yet that
love has stifled his children, leading Daisy down the path to alcoholism.
Gideon grew up in an abusive cult where young girls were married
at 12 and boys tattooed at 13. After
witnesses a particularly heart wrenching episode of abuse his mother helped him
escape. He has never stopped looking for
the rest of his family—hoping against hope that they too escaped.
“Sonny” was “made” by a sick and sadistic woman. Unlike Gideon and Daisy he had no one to
stand by him, to protect or guide him out of his darkness. When “Sonny” attacks Daisy he sets in motion
a manhunt that leads not only to one of the most vile serial killers, but to
the roots of Gideon and Daisy’s personal nightmares.
I had a hard time reading about three such emotionally injured
characters. In a “normal” read at least
one would have some stability to their life.
Not so in their case. Oh, they
have stable moments, but their pasts are always lurking. Fortunately they have characters around them,
which translates into characters around us, who are stable and emotionally
together. Absent those characters I don’t
think I could have finished the book because Gideon, Daisy and even “Sonny’s”
stories, once we know what drove him, were just too depressing. It takes a long time for their inner strength
to truly come through, but when it does, Rose does it with flair.
I was drawn to the book because I live in the San Francisco Bay
Area and know Sacramento well. Admittedly
I wanted to see if she got the area right.
Not a lot of words went to Sacramento, but the outlying areas where
Daisy and Gideon travelled are well described.
While venues aren’t necessarily key to a story, they add flavour and in
the case of SAY YOU’RE SORRY, particularly at the end, a good description adds
to the tension of the story.
One of the aspects of serial killer books I really enjoy are
reading the psychological aspects of their actions. I anticipated that since Gideon is an FBI
agent there would have been some solid profiling going on, but it didn’t really
come up. For me that was a missed
opportunity. Lack of it didn’t detract
from the story – it just would have added to it. I definitely plan to continue the series.
This is an objective review and not an endorsement of
this book.
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