Evil At Heart: A Thriller

Judging by the reviews, I am the lone person who did not care for this book and thought it was the worst in the series.

I found the book started out great, minus the recapping, I hate when people write a series and feel the need to recap each book, write on the book its a series. Anyways, it started out great and fell apart.

Susan is starting to get on my nerves and I liked her before. I still adore Archie, still do not see the evil of Gretchen compared to what real life serial killers do.

The storyline was lacking and the gore was in the book, in my opinion, to make up for lack of storyline. I just started Night Season today and hope its better than this one.

This is a VAST improvement from the second book. It had the same amount of suspense and thrills like Heartsick and it went up one more notch. It felt a little strange though, since Archie was out of the picture for a while, until he's forced back in.

The process in forcing him back was insanely creepy. The phone calls, the text messages, even the staff and inmates where Archie was staying at for treatment made a hair raising experience. You just couldn't trust anyone and any new character introduced into the scene, you had to wonder if they were under Gretchen's influence or not. I really loved the text messaging and phone calling moments. Those really creeped me out. I thought this part of the story was very well written and gave you enough chills yet not so much that it's overdone and cheesy. The mind games played between Gretchen and Archie are really good and that also keeps you reading through the book.
The underlying main plot of the book was good and only makes sense that a possibility of a copycat killer would come into the picture. The outcome of this mystery is really good and was also pretty thrilling as well. The pace of the plot was also well done and the sudden revelations with the twists and turns are also really good. Gretchen is still, an evil manipulating witch that you can't ignore.

There are still unanswered questions to Gretchen, and I'm wondering how long this is going to be. You can only stretch this storyline with Gretchen so far without making it look silly. That being said though, I've picked up Night Season already and am hoping it's just as good.

Thrilling, with a "can't put down" feeling, fans of Archie and Gretchen will definitely be satisfied with this one. Those that are new to this should read this series in order. Be advised, there is quite a bit of gore in the book those that aren't into that should stay away.

I loved it! I think Chelsea Cain did a great job adding to her series and it ended in an amazing way! I loved the way the whole book didn't revolve around Gretchen being on the loose and killing again. There are a lot of great twists that kept me interested throughout the whole thing!

This is the third of the Archie and Gretchen series...and it was a great read.....kept some of the great characters in the book....I really like susan ward in the book.....I hope that chelsea will continue with this type of writing but venture off to a new story maybe keeping some of the same chracters like susan ward in it as the gretchen has gone on for a while now....but all in all I have enjoyed all three books very much and would recommend to start from the beginning to really understand the whole story and the sick and twisted Gretchen!!