Damaged Intentions
Damaged Intentions (Abby Mullen Thriller #2)
By: Mike Omer
This was a great sequel with the same suspense and humor that marked the first one!
Book One, A Deadly Influence, left us on a cliffhanger (Uh… I just started writing hangover, maybe that’s how it left you, who’s to say…) and this book picks up two months later.
As with the first book we have two plot lines.
The first is the continued thread of Abby Mullen, cult survivor, trying to figure out what happened the night of the infamous fire and who she’s been communicating with via text, having just discovered it’s not the person she thought it was.
The second is the driving force of the book— a group of conspiracy theorists known as The Watchers is convinced a sex-trafficking ring is happening at a high school and attempts to ‘rescue’ the kids but find themselves in a standoff with the police, holding hostages, and slowly spiraling into chaos.
Hence- damaged intentions. Good intentions can help people but they can also kill all of mankind. (That is a dramatization that does not depict any scene in this book but is nonetheless worth pondering.)
Abby Mullen is their negotiator and we are reminded that Mike Omer has been subtly equipping us as readers on how to become fluent in negotiating techniques. Thanks for looking out! I’ve been practicing on my kids and if I could just get the ‘keeping my voice calm’ aspect down, I think I could give Mullen a run for her money!
Omer has created great characters, his humor is spot-on, and he continues to throw in surprises at just the right times!
My one critique is some of the content— swearing and some descriptions of the perv’s activities. Don’t really like reading that.
But overall I’ve really enjoyed this series and am looking forward to more of his books!
Also, using my powers of observation I have figured out his method of titling his books and have taken it upon myself to offer suggestions for his next books that I think he will find most helpful should he ever read my phenomenal review.
Destroyed Identity (boring but compelling)
Dissected Imposter (this could get gruesome)
Dented Impala (I’m envisioning an epic car chase which may make a better screenplay than a book)
Deducted Income (hello white collar crime)
Dedicated IRS (a surprise look into the real people behind the curtain of hate)
Delineated Integers (a math genius murderer?)
Dropped Icees (the biggest disaster I could think of)
Disgusted Idiots (I have no ideas for this one but I’m sure we could come up with something worth reading)
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**Received an ARC via NetGalley**
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