A review by liseyp
Kill For Me Kill For You by Steve Cavanagh

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

When grief-stricken Amanda meets Wendy at a bereavement group she feels that finally there’s someone else who understands that even beyond the mourning there’s a hatred for the person who took her loved ones away. So when the pair agree to serve their own form of justice it begins to seem like it was meant to be.

 

I have never watched the end of a book approaching with such anxiety before. This novel keeps delivering right up to the last page, to the extent that as the final chapters approached I began to fear that we wouldn’t see the resolution in this book. Like how could it possibly wrap up when so much was still happening.

 

Of course Mr Cavanagh is a professional so I really knew that I was in safe hands. And once again he proved that he’s a master of pacing and the reveals landed exactly as they should to pay off this extraordinary novel.

 

This is a standalone book. Not part of the Eddie Flynn series. Although it is a part of the same universe as a mention of Eddie’s childhood friend Jimmy ‘the hat’ Fellini proves. But apart from those couple of pages I didn’t miss Eddie at all. Sorry Eddie, I do still love you, but the characters and plotting are so strong in this novel that there’s no sense of loss of the history or framework of a series. Amanda and co. quickly became enough of a strong basis to feel fully invested in this story.