Review for In The Blood by Sara Hantz: ★★★

In The Blood by Sara Hantz

My rating: 3 of 5 stars




I was given an arc of this in exhange for an honest review.

This story follows 17 year old JED who has always led a normal life. A loving Mother and Father and a younger sister, until one day when his life is upturned upside down when his Dad is arrested on suspicion of the abuse and murder of four young boys and normal ceases to exist.

I felt this book held a lot of promise and after reading the blurb i was looking forward to reading this story. However i found it a little lacking, despite the story being centered on the controversial topic of pedophilia, it failed to get as dark and gritty as i would have expected from a book like this.

Despite lots of chapters, it flew by quite quickly however i feel this is because they lacked any depth. It felt like i was reading the bones of the story but there was no meat to it.

The ending was also a little disappointing, i was left confused with more questions than answers. Unfortunately this story just wasn't for me

I gave it 3 stars.

Blurb

For seventeen years Jed Franklin’s life was normal. Then his father was charged with the abuse and murder of four young boys and normal became a nightmare. 

His mom’s practically a walking zombie, he’s lost most of his friends, and the press camps out on his lawn. The only things that keep him sane are his little sis; his best friend and dream girl, Summer; and the alcohol he stashes in his room. But after Jed wakes up from a total blackout to discover a local kid has gone missing—a kid he was last seen talking to—he’s forced to face his greatest fear: that he could somehow be responsible. 

In a life that’s spiraled out of control, Jed must decide if he chooses his own destiny with Summer by his side or if the violent urges that plagued his father are truly in the blood…

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