I received an ARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This did not affect my opinion of the book or my review itself.
Elle Castillo has always focused her work on helping children, and her now-popular true crime podcast examines unsolved cases of missing children. This season her podcast is centering around The Countdown Killer, a numerically-fixated child murderer who seemed to vanish himself years ago, but just might be back in action.
This was definitely a really intense, dark read. Had it been a true crime book rather than the fictional novel it luckily is, there is no way I would have been able to finish reading. You should definitely know going in that children are harmed. I normally don't read books where children get harmed in any way, but I think the podcast concept caught my attention (and the podcast idea is used really effectively here), but this was definitely a hard read in places.
So what I would say is, if you're interested, give this book a read. The podcast transcripts are powerful and interesting, and there is a really amazing twist that had me gasping out loud (though I did call a different big plot point within the first chapters). Just know you will be on a dark ride.
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