The Girl in the Motel

This started a bit slow. I was almost tired of the flipping back and forth between Joe's foster home upbringing and the murder case when it picked up. The stiff way Joe acts with most people seemed to be a bit much but maybe needed to really drive her personality home to the reader.

The relationship between Joe and her abuser came off thin and needed to be fleshed out but it worked somewhat for some terror at the end. There were a couple of points where I was turning pages a bit faster to see what happened and I definitely cared about Roger. So the author got me involved with some characters - which is a win.