What she discovers will shock her small community and turn her family upside down.Ī River of Crows is a tale of family secrets, deception, and revenge perfect for fans of Julia Heaberlin and Jennifer Hillier. When the body of another boy is found, Sloan begins to question what really happened to her brother all those years ago. There, she is shocked to hear a crow muttering the same syllable over and over: Ridge, Ridge, Ridge. Overwhelmed by memories and unanswered questions, Sloan returns to the last place her brother was seen all those years ago: Crow’s Nest Creek. In the middle of a bitter divorce, she’s forced to return to her rural Texas hometown when her mother is discharged from a mental health facility. Now, twenty years later, Sloan’s life is unraveling.

Ridge’s body was never recovered, and Sloan’s mother-a brilliant ornithologist-slowly descended into madness, insisting her son was still alive. Their father, a good-natured Vietnam veteran prone to violent outbursts, was arrested and charged with murder. Please note that this book does include sexual scenes and some healthy doses of violence so I wouldn’t suggest it for the younger demographic of Cabot’s fanbase.In 1988, Sloan Hadfield’s brother Ridge went fishing with their father and never came home. This is a vampire book for people who do not do vampire books and it’s pretty awesome in a very beach-book, not too serious-y, romance-y in the right places sort of way. It’s a fun, albeit lightweight, book that might just turn me back onto a genre which I couldn’t abide previously. Meena is a TV writer, working on one of the most popular soaps of the day, and I really enjoyed how Cabot worked all her possible angles of parodies. Meena’s healthily sceptic and self-aware throughout and there’s a heavy dose of humour throughout. And that might be kinda handy right now because she might be sort of on the verge of falling in love with the wrong sort of guy… The problem is that she’s never been able to see her own future. Meena is gifted, or not, with a skill to predict people’s deaths. The Mina Harker allusions are most intentional. Insatiable is the first (naturally) of a series which deals with Meena Harper. I was very intrigued to see that she’s written a vampire novel and picked it up in a manner reminiscent of somebody crossing the Rubicon (this is a genre that I do *not* frequent) I have a lot of love for her work and have followed her across all her series so far.

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