Charlotte Rowe spent the first seven years of her life in the hands of the only parents she knew-a pair of serial killers who murdered her mother and tried to shape Charlotte in their own twisted image. If only the nightmare had ended when she was rescued. Instead, her real father exploited her tabloid-ready story for fame and profit-until Charlotte finally broke free from her ghoulish past and fled. Just when she thinks she has buried her personal hell forever, Charlotte is swept into a frightening new ordeal. Secretly dosed with an experimental drug, she's endowed with a shocking new power-but pursued by a treacherous corporation desperate to control her.
Except from now on, if anybody is going to control Charlotte, it's going to be Charlotte herself. She's determined to use the extraordinary ability she now possesses to fight the kind of evil that shattered her life-by drawing a serial killer out from the shadows to face the righteous fury of a victim turned avenger.
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They didn't plan to kill my mother.
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(Thomas & Mercer, 1 March 2018, 455 pages, e-book, borrowed from @AmazonKindle #PrimeReading)
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This is my first time reading the author. This book has been on my radar for a while. I love the cover which led me to reading the blurb and adding the book to my massive TBR list. I'm glad I finally got round to reading it. In case you were wondering, this is not a book about surviving being raised by the serial killers who murdered your mother. These events are the backdrop to Charlotte's life, giving her unique survival skills and desire for revenge. This reminds me a lot of a Dean Koontz book I read years ago called By the Light of The Moon where the character is injected with something powerful people are after. This a fun book to read but there are some gory and horrific moments. This is the first book in a series. I look forward to finding out what Burning Girl gets up to next.
