Hack (Save The Kids Book 5)

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1. Anonymous says :

   November 9, 2019 at 6:33 am

   
   Thoroughly recommend, 31 May 2019

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   Gillian Payton

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   This review is from: Hack (Save The Kids Book 5) (Kindle Edition)

   Carter had never grieved the loss of his wife and daughter. He had just wanted vengeance against the man who killed them and others like him. Archer gave up everything for that one case he couldn’t let go of. When Archer hits a dead end he turns to the father of one of the victims – a man who knows how to hunt paedophiles – in order to stop the man responsible for the rape and deaths of so many children. In parts this book is quite harrowing but is a fantastic read. This whole series I thoroughly recommend.
2. Anonymous says :

   November 9, 2019 at 7:31 am

   
   A bit more on track than Beau’s book and Dyson’s book. A bit whiny in places, but a good ending., 28 May 2019

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   ROROBLUSMUM (London, UK)

   This review is from: Hack (Save The Kids Book 5) (Kindle Edition)

   This is one of the better books in the series, and it delves into why Carter and Bryon founded STK. It does follow the blurb pretty closely and it is pretty well done, as there’s an actual trail that Carter and Archer follow (as well as having time to have copious amounts of sex on the run, though not at the expense of the tale).

   I did think that Carter trusted Archer a little too much too quickly, and that he endangered the rest of the STK group by bringing him in unannounced, un-vetted and against the voting rules that he himself put in place to safeguard the group. There was a deserved bit of disagreement, but it petered out too quickly and easily and even the ‘reckoning’ wasn’t deep enough.

   This tale pushes things a little beyond the normal MO for the group, and normally in a book, if a lead did what Carter did, I think I’d struggle to see them as lead material, but given what happened to Carter – his was a double, devastating loss – I understood why he did what he did, and was fine with it. But, right in the middle of delivering retribution, he had a bit of a freeze (understandable) and actually used Xander’s name in front of a witness, though luckily she was pretty much in a catatonic-Stockholm state and didn’t blab to the police.

   There was a LOT of repetition in the prologue and the start of the book, with the author going on and on about how guilty Carter felt about messing up and Dyson getting caught and arrested on his watch, so much so that I briefly wondered if I’d missed out on the previous book (Carter’s tale). As it went on, I realised that the prologue was perhaps in line with the start of Dyson’s book, but isolated in conjunction with this tale, and remembered that yes, I had read Dyson’s tale (and we later got told that he and the new team were doing well). It wasn’t the best-worded prologue and it wasn’t really clear when it was situated, and tbh, it went on a little too long.

   Overall, though, this was perhaps the most honest feeling/honest coming across book of the series, even more so than book 1. I wasn’t sure that I loved Archer and Carter as a couple, though, as it felt like Archer did most of the giving (physically, emotionally and in terms of moral support) and that Carter came across as a bit selfish, especially when he announced that he didn’t do a particular thing, and Archer just seemed to accept it. Archer was a little bit the weaker character, as I don’t think we got to see enough of his strength and the determination alluded to by the blurb. Yes, he was committed to finding the destroyer/s of Carter’s life, but I didn’t quite get to see him at his passionate best, as not unreasonably, this was the Carter Show.