Series: The Amateurs
Author: Sara Shepard
Publisher: Freeform
Published Date: November 7th, 2017
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, YA
Page Count: 260
Format: Paperback
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★.5
Goodreads Summary:
That is, until twenty-one-year-old Chelsea Dawson disappeared. The social media star was last seen enjoying a beautiful summer night at the Jersey Shore with her friends. But after an explosive fight with her ex-boyfriend, she vanished without a trace.
When Seneca, Maddox, Aerin, and Madison hear about the suspected kidnapping, they notice a jarring detail about the victim: she looks exactly like Aerin’s sister, Helena, who was killed five years earlier. Seneca is convinced she knows who killed Helena, and she can’t shake the feeling that the same person has taken Chelsea.
Desperate for answers about the two girls, and the truth behind her mother’s murder, Seneca will stop at nothing to find out if the cases are linked. So when Maddox receives an invitation to the Shore from none other than their primary suspect, the Amateurs begin an intense new investigation.
Full of disturbing secrets, startling twists, and horrifying revelations, the second book in #1 New York Times best-selling author Sara Shepard’s The Amateurs series follows the team down a twisted path—one crafted by a brilliant killer.
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My Review:
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T READ AMATEURS
Follow me starts off a few months after Amateur ended. Seneca, Maddox, Aerin, and Madison have all gone their separate ways, but are still affected by what happened in the first book and are constantly on the lookout for Brett.
Aerin is off in Europe trying to forget everything that happened. Seneca is back in Maryland is working for the Parking Authority. Maddox is still running and preparing for college, and Madison is still Madison.
All of them are brought back together when Maddox gets a letter detailing information only the killer would know from Amateurs and when he also posts a tip on Case Not Closed involving information from a missing person case that has just happened.
The crew meets back up at the Jersey Shore in order to find Brett and the missing woman.
This book is even more of a whirlwind than the Amateurs was. Seneca, Maddox, Aerin, and Madison have no real idea where to start things, but they know they have to find Brett before he hurts Chelsea like he has all of his past victims. With Brett taunting all of them at every chance he can which leaves them shaken up. It's hard to figure out who he has morphed himself into now and how exactly he is staying hidden in plain sight.
They obviously can't go to the police, because they have no real physical evidence and no idea who he is now.
With them being on their own and in a town where they don't know anyone it's hard to get information from anyone besides Chelsea ex-boyfriend, who wants to clear his name and find her.
I loved this book even more than the first one and found myself falling for all of Brett's tricks just like the others were. I'm now so invested in all of these characters and don't want to see anything bad happen to them. Well besides Brett, but he is a type of evil genius that I never want to meet.
That ending I was not expecting that, and OMG! I need the next book now, how can you just end it like that.
P.S.
If any of Shepards novels are going to be made into a tv show can this one please be it!
Thank you to Disney Hyperion for sending me a physical ARC in exchange for my honest review.
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