Book Review Expecting to Die by Lisa Jackson

Title: Expecting to Die

Author: Lisa Jackson

Stars: 3 1\2 out of 5 

 Review:
I struggle with this review because this is the first book I have read by Lisa Jackson and it is book in a series.  
This story seem to just trug along and at times with the endless backstories that I am sure are for first time readers to the story but honestly just got this reader lost many times over. I am not sure I could count how many different characters were in the book and some that were not necessary at times.  I get that Detective Regan Pescoli is an angry woman and pregnant.  I couldn't connect with her as a reader which made it difficult to connect to the story.  I believe the author created Selena Alvarez for those who couldn't connect to Regan but instead of connecting I felt the story was disconnected and the characters had zero chemistry.   

Many times the story simple fell last and I struggled even finishing the book.  Characters were hard to connect with, unnecessary characters in the story and the ending fell flat and unbelievable at times.  

This book might give her followers the story they wanted but for new readers to her books it turned this reader off.


Synopsis:
Some places earn their bad reputation through tall tales or chance. Grizzly Falls is different. Here, killers aren't just the stuff of legends and campfire lore. Someone is in the night-time shadows, watching the local teens play around in the moonlit woods. Waiting for the right moment, the right victim. Waiting to take away a life.

Detective Regan Pescoli is counting the days until her maternity leave. Exhausted and emotional, the last thing she needs is another suspected serial killer. Especially when her daughter, Bianca, is swept up in the media storm. When a reality show arrives in town, the chaos only makes it harder for Pescoli and her partner, Selena Alvarez, to distinguish rumor from truth.

Another body is found and another. And as the nightmare strikes closer to home, Pescoli races to find the terror lingering in the darkness, where there are too many places to hide and countless places to die. 

Kindle Edition, 352 pages

Expected publication: March 9th 2017 by Mulholland Books 

About The Author:

Lisa Jackson is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of more than 85 novels, including Afraid to Die, Tell Me, You Don’t Want to Know, Running Scared, Without Mercy, Malice, and Shiver.  She is also the co-author of the Colony Series, co-written with her sister, Nancy Bush. There are over 20 million copies of Lisa Jackson’s books in print in twenty languages.  

Before she became a nationally bestselling author, Lisa Jackson was a mother struggling to keep food on the table by writing novels, hoping against hope that someone would pay her for them. Today, neck deep in murder, her books appear on The New York Times, the USA Today, and the Publishers Weekly national bestseller lists.

With over thirty bestsellers to her name, Lisa Jackson is a master of taking readers to the edge of sanity – and back – in novels that buzz with dangerous secrets and deadly passions.  She continues to be fascinated by the minds and motives of both her killers and their pursuers—the personal, the professional and downright twisted.  As she builds the puzzle of relationships, actions, clues, lies and personal histories that haunt her protagonists, she must also confront the fear and terror faced by her victims, and the harsh and enduring truth that, in the real world, terror and madness touch far too many lives and families.  

Authors Website:

http://www.lisajackson.com/

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