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    You Are Next
    You Are Next
    You Are Next
    Audiobook8 hours

    You Are Next

    Written by Katia Lief

    Narrated by Lauren Ezzo

    3.5/5

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    He took everything . . . then came back for more.

    Former Detective Karin Schaeffer has nothing left to live for after serial
    killer Martin Price destroys all she holds dear. Known as "The Domino
    Killer," Price doesn't stop until an entire family is destroyed. When
    he leaves a message, scrawled in blood, on her bathroom mirror, she
    knows what's coming-You are next. But Karin Schaeffer refuses to run and hide.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 2, 2019
    ISBN9781630155179
    Author

    Katia Lief

    Born in France to American parents, KATIA LIEF moved to the United States as a baby and was raised in Massachusetts and New York. She teaches fiction writing as a part-time faculty member at the New School in Manhattan and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

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    • 4/5
      You Are Next is the debut of a very complex character, Karin Schaeffer. She's struggling to continue her life after the murder of her husband and daughter by a serial killer named Martin Price. She was a police detective heading up the search for him, but once he killed her family she was no longer able to go on. When Price escapes custody, Karin knows he will eventually find her. She almost welcomes the thought that she will soon join her husband and daughter.

      Karin makes a split second decision that will end up with her determination to either kill Price or end up dead herself. Either way, she's prepared. The first half of this book was fascinating in its depiction of the emotions and feelings of Karin, a completely broken woman. The second half is a twist heavy plot that really drives the story to it's conclusion. This psychological thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat as you anticipate both Karin and the killer’s next move.
    • 3/5
      Some titles are designed to be opaque. To tease you slightly. Perhaps to hint at myriad thematic concerns.Others are less subtle and reveal an awful lot about the story within.Take 'You Are Next', for instance. There's a strong implied threat, but it also feels rather cliched and a reader might justifiably anticipate that there're going to be plenty of cliffhangers, episodes of violence and familiar serial killer tropes. Tick, tick, tick.-- What's it about? --Martin Price, known by the police as JPP ('Just Plain Psycho') and to the public as The Dominic Killer, killed an entire family, one by one, after placing dominoes as 'clues' at their house. Detective Karin Schaeffer found him, arrested him, and subequently lost her daughter and husband in a brutal double murder perpetrated by Price after he escaped from custody.Nearly a year on from this brutal slaughter, Karin has moved house, left her job and is in therapy to attempt to combat her depression and desire to commit suicide. When she is warned that Price has somehow escaped again, she refuses to go into a safe house, preferring to sit and wait for Price to finish the job he started. After all, she promised her family that she wouldn't try to kill herself again; she never promised them to stop someone else doing it for her. It's only when Price is breathing down her neck and brandishing more dominoes that Karin realises the terrifying truth: she might be next, but she won't be last...Can Karin find the strength to hunt down Price and move forward with her life? Ex-partner Mac is on hand to help, but Karin's fighting herself as much as the killer... -- What's it like? --Uneven. Dramatic. Ultimately a little too focused on the personal at the expense of the criminal.Karin is an interesting character. Unlike many gung-ho revenge-seeking fictional characters with a similar background (crime fighter whose family have been severely harmed / destroyed through villains connected to The Job), Karin has sunk deep into depression and simply wants to not exist. We see her try Prozac, chat to her psychiatrist and calmly wait to be killed by the man who killed her family. She makes bad decisions and finds little joy in life. As such, she's perhaps a difficult character to empathise with, but I think it's good to have a protagonist react in such a human way to her inhumane circumstances. Although some reviewers have criticised Karin for her initial emotional state and lack of drive, I suspect in a similar circumstance I'd respond more like Karin than like (for instance) revenge-obsessed Patrick Jane from TV show The Mentalist.Martin Price, on the other hand, remains a malignant but surprisingly empty presence. What drove him to his crimes? Why use dominoes as a clue? Why the obsession with game playing? We never find out anything really personal about him, even when we start to learn more about his background. This seems odd when there's so much focus on developing Karin's psychology, but Lief's total lack of interest in who Martin Price might be is indicated by his police nickname - he's Just Plain Psycho, so who cares what his motivations might be. And he smells funny.We also never discover how he is able to stalk Karin so effectively or to escape from police custody on multiple occasions, because Lief isn't interested in this. Instead, she wants to tell us a love story, as Karin and Mac work together, bond together, and tentatively work towards trusting each other. Never mind that Mac has to divorce his current wife in order to do this, or that Karin might need to find meaning in life through her own existence before becoming part of a couple; the romance often feels more significant than the crime and I did find that disappointing.-- Final thoughts --There are some interesting twists as the story develops, which help to give the story a slightly uneven feel since there're really two halves to it: first Karin is under threat, then her remaining family is. The pace in the second half is quicker and the twists begin to pile up. They strain belief slightly and there are some odd moments in the final crisis, notably the treatment of poor Mac, but it certainly makes for dramatic reading.I already have the next two books in the series because I bought them all together from a sale, so for that reason I may see what happens to Karin next, but I'm in no rush to add them to my TBR pile. 'You Are Next' is easy to read with enough drama to keep you interested and plenty of surprises along the way, but I would have liked to have known much more about what made Martin Price tick.