Linda (Angeleyes) - , reviewed on 3/28/2011 + 217 more book reviews

I loved the first three books in this series and was looking forward to this one. However, this one just did not live up to my expectations. Gretchen is not a main character is this story (and maybe it shouldn't be named Archie and Gretchen, Bk 4). The story goes off in a completely different direction. The characters are one dimentional.

Archie has never managed to evolve as a human being and suffers from severe egotism. Every murder, kidnapping or torture is always his fault. Food and sleep are a crutch and he is incessantly ill. Everyone is always concerned with his well being and he is only concerned with saving the world. There is no depth to this character.

Susan Ward has yet to evolve. Time and again she is put into life threatening situations because of her need to tag along. Her behavior has followed a predictable pattern.

Unfortunately, the serial killer aspect was really weak and I really couldn't get a good handle on why the killer acted the way they did. The killer was flat and too one-dimensional and their fascination with Susan didn't make sense. I was hoping for someone with a bigger personality, much like Gretchen, but because she's larger than life, no killer can compete.

If there is a book 5 hopefully it will go back to the formula in books 1 and 2.

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