For a thriller I did feel that the pacing of this whole novel was wrong, and the lack of character development and emotion was too flat to encourage emotion in me.

The beginning had great speed and high tension, brought to life by the real fear that Connor created in his lead characters, especially as

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Sara watched her Best Friend being murdered, despite coming so close to saving her.

The tension dwindelled and I felt that the Author was trying too hard to spell things out to the reader, despite the 'Thriller' Genre.

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Having visited her mother's hospital and suspected the Doctor, I prefered being left guessing as to his role until later in the novel. Instead it was pointedly spelled out in later chapters regarding his nephew.

I hate when authors do this, as it seems they underestimate the reader, assuming that their plots are so complex that we can't remember links and relationships or events.
Complexity was not the key word for this novel, as I pretty much knew who and what Sara was when she was first mentioned. As I assume most people did?

There were lso interruptions to the flow of the main plot with sub-plot chapters. Prime example were the chapters concerning Rachel and John. These interuppted the 'tension' of the main plot and were a major red light as to what would happen later on.

I also felt that

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had Sara been much closer to her Mother and Father, and therefore less accepting of their deceipts and roles in the killings etc, that I would have felt more shocked, frightened and tense. Sara's reaction to her Mother's death just didn't sit right with me, as Sara didn't care, neither did I.

Overall I thought I was okay, but I probably wouldn't hunt down another by the author.