Usually Karin Slaughter is an automatic go-to author for me, but I have to say that I struggled with this book.
The opening scenes were written in first person point of view, then the author switched point of view to the next main character ( Sara and Will) and repeated the same scene with the same dialogue from the other perspective. Sorry but that only pulled me out of the story. It was not only distracting but did not move the story on. A simple conversation would have achieved the same objective.
The biological warfare main plot was not engaging enough, despite the huge stakes both personal and social which were repeated at many levels in every chapter.
A rare miss for me.

Omg I loved this book it was exciting from the beginning to the end with a reference to a couple of things in earlier books which explained things further I cannot recommend it highly enough

A novel relevant to our times. People like this really exist in our world today, which is really sad to say. A fantastic story with a gripping realistic theme. Don’t miss this one. Ms Slaughter at her best!

I’m a big fan of Karin Slaughter so when I received this review copy of her new book via NetGalley I dived into it straight away and to be honest, it was so good I couldn’t bear to put it down till I got to the end. In fact if I hadn’t had to eat and sleep I would have finished it quicker!
This book is another in the series featuring Doctor Sara Linton and Georgia Bureau Investigator, Will Trent, characters I was pleased to be reunited with as I’d read all the earlier books about them.
In this one Sara and Will get sucked into a white supremacist terrorist plot. A young mother is kidnapped and disappears for a month despite being the target of a massive investigation. But why are the FBI so tight lipped about the case?
Then Sara is kidnapped by a terrorist group and ends up in a white supremacist camp in the woods. Will is forced to go undercover and risks his life to find her.
This book starts slowly but soon the tension ratchets up as Sara is thrust into an extremely frightening situation.
We learn more about Sara and Will’s relationship, his insecurities and difficulties expressing his feelings after his awful childhood. This side of the book definitely drew me in and had me desperately hoping they would find a way to formalise their relationship.
The neo Nazi terrorists were menacing and all too believable after all the atrocities that have happened both in USA and around the world in recent times.
The author has done her research well and the twisted ideas these people use to inspire their followers is realistically portrayed.
This was a hold your breath until the end sort of book. Karin Slaughter has excelled herself and I highly recommend. I just hope I don’t have to wait too long for the next book in the series as these characters are like old friends and I’m keen to find out what will happen to them in the future.

I have read a few Karin Slaughter's books and hoped this one would be a good one. Yes it was.. She has gotten under the skin of the white supremists with this book and cleverly showed his warped view of the world, whilst correcting him in her head. Well written and descriptive book, written with humour, horror and love. It keeps you awake at night because you cannot put it down and keeps you on the edge of your seat through out.

This has a story that it is easy in our time to identify with. An extremist white group creating havoc is unfortunately a contemporary issue. The book goes into great detail which makes it a slow read. The ending is predictable from early on. At the beginning,the introductory car crash is told twice from different points of view. We do not need to know the detail child by child if the disease that pervades e extremist camp. That makes for slow reading. It is not a book that carries you along. There is far too much detail interfering with the story.

Another great Will Trent book by Karin slaughter. Fast paced, although it did take a while to get into.

Another terrific read a series to follow. So tense multi layered.Once again I was drawn in from the first pages and could not put it down.#netgalley #harperuk

Love that this book reunites is with will & Sara. Really enjoy all the books in this series & this one doesn’t disappoint. Amazing, a must read.

I was pleased when I realised that this latest book by Karin Slaughter reunites us with Sara Linton and Will Trent. I've always enjoyed these particular characters and this book was no exception.

For me, the story took a while to get going. I didn't like the repetition early in the book (I actually wondered if my kindle was glitching- this would be easier to check in a 'real' book) and I found it confusing and unnecessary. However, once the scale of danger that Sara and Will found themselves became apparent, the pace was fast and the twists and revelations came thick and fast.

The story itself was written in the authors usual style, with brutal realism and honesty. Some of the scenes were uncomfortable and difficult to read and the imagery stayed in my head long after the book had finished.

Overall, I enjoyed this book and I am grateful to NetGalley and the publishers for allowing me to read and review it.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.
The Last Widow re-unites us with Will and Sara, Will's ex wife is out of the picture and his relationship with Sara is rapidly developing. However, when the couple get caught up in a terror plot and find themselves desperately trying to prevent mass casualties their future together, and even their lives are in jeopardy
To me this book felt slightly different to Slaughter's other novels and I think it is because of the scale of the situation that Will and Sara find themselves in. It is hard to see a way out for them.
I loved this book. Probably one of Slaughter's best yet (although I do have a tendency to say that every time I read her latest work!) Talk about knife edge, this had me gripped from the first chapter to the conclusion.
It is written with the author's usual brutal honesty. Her dialogue is, as ever, perfect . It paints a vividly accurate description of the vile characters that she has created and her graphic description of the atrocities committed leaves nothing to the imagination..
I read the full book in two days. It would have been quicker if I hadn't had to re-charge my kindle!

This may not be vintage Slaughter but it's still a decent thriller even if the pace sometimes feels uneven with sections in which people talk and things happen yet the story doesn't seem to move on... That's especially the case at the start where we see *exactly* the same scenes first from Sara's and then Will's PoV but there's barely a difference between them and it's just needless repetition.

I'd have liked to have seen more of Amanda and Evelyn who make what feel like token walk-on appearances - and even Faith doesn't do much (though her interactions with an FBI agent add some necessary humour to proceedings.). It also seems to take everyone far too long to understand the nature of the plot given who had been abducted....

As much as I love Will Trenton, his love affair with Sara Linton has always felt a bit forced to me - and his endless abjectness and his whimpering inner voice ('Will didn't have a life without Sara') got wearing for me.

All that aside, when the action gets going it's grim and violent and politically timely with its exposé of a white supremacist homegrown terrorist group. Just not the best Slaughter can do.

I’ll update this review later, but I’m already confused.
2nd chapter, set in 2019, Sara mentions her husband dying 5 years ago....he died in Skin Privilege, which was longer than 5 years ago!

I've been a fan of Karin Slaughter for many years and was so excited to get to read this new one. It's a good read, I just found it quite difficult to get into. I'm normally hooked from first page to last, but, this one was more of a slow build until the last bit.
I'm still a fan, just, wasn't so keen on this one.
Loved the end info on Will though!

Thanks to Netgalley, Harper Collins and Karin Slaughter for the opportunity to preview in exchange for this honest review.

** spoiler alert ** When I read there was a new Trent/Linton story coming our way,my first thought was "I miss Jeffrey" . I think this says something about the author that I still remember the character several years on,let alone miss him. I wonder if she misses him too... he gets mentioned a lot in this book.
The story itself was tense and fast paced and exciting,and it took us off the streets and into the woods,with a whole new set of problems.
But Will was Will,and that's always a good thing.
I read it in two sittings... I'm already hoping the next isn't too long in coming.
I don't think it's a story I would have considered reading had it not had familiar characters in.
Glad I did.

Sara Linton and Will Trent are back in a new thriller from Karin Slaughter. A mum is snatched from a car park in front of her young daughter, a bank robber is under the tightest security possible and someone has just set off a series of bombs at a hospital. Can the link between the three be solved before more people die?

Another fast paced and action packed thriller from Karin Slaughter. Home-grown terrorism, white supremacy and cults - just another day at the office for Will Trent...