But I got away and he’s still out there, searching for me. All of them murdered by the man who has stalked me for years. I understand how difficult that will be for the character but I think it will also do her a world of good to rediscover the joys of life.My family is gone. However much trauma the character carries, I will be pleased if I see her enjoying her life a little more outside of the horrors she’s faced. I suppose I will discover in the third book the relevance of Logan as a character. I think Shiloh and the plot could survive well without him, so I’m not clear on why he’s a recurring character. However, I still don’t see much relevance to his character. I understand the point of making a good narrative and creating a compelling cliffhanger. I want to support him as the last living relative of Shiloh’s but then again, he hasn’t shown himself in a good light so far and his actions during this book had me fuming with anger. Logan, Shiloh’s uncle also returns during this book and my feelings towards him as a character are incredibly mixed. We have the creep Jacob, and we have the school bullying and while I was definitely irritated on the character’s behalf while reading, I did struggle to connect so much trauma onto an already laden character – I’m not sure how much that makes sense or not. Knowing that Mr X is still out there leaves me with the certainty that there will be a climatic return and narrative (I suspect in the final book), but outside of that there is only so much a character can take. When you encounter a character who carries trauma from before you met them, the question always becomes how far you can push them before they break. I spoke about characters with trauma in my review of the first book in this series, Trauma can make a character act in a certain way and trauma, whether good or bad, will always push a narrative in a certain way. She spars pretty effectively with the four brothers, and it is only when she reaches her rock bottom that we see her act without thought and give into requests without a fight. Much of this book centres around the fact that Shiloh isn’t coming, and it is about her coming to the realisation that she needs to go back to therapy.Īround the spiral she’s having we do get to see more of her strength and fighting spirit. It’s about that trauma weighing her down and taking her to a place of darkness and a place where she shuts herself off from the world.
This book focuses more on Shiloh and the trauma she has. So, this book picks up from the cliffhanger of book 1 and thankfully that part of the book is resolved fairly quickly.
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