Girl, Reformed

An Ella Dark FBI Suspense Thriller, Book 20

De: Blake Pierce

Narrado por: Kate Burns

FBI Agent Ella Dark has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own father, and has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of murderers. But when a woman is found dead in an odd wooden contraption, Ella realizes she must decode its significance if she has any chance of catching what is clearly a new serial killer….

GIRL, REFORMED (An Ella Dark FBI Suspense Thriller) is book #20 in a long-anticipated new series by #1 bestseller and USA Today bestselling author Blake Pierce, whose bestseller Once Gone (a free download) has received over 20,000 five star reviews and ratings.

FBI Agent Ella Dark, 29, is given her big chance to achieve her life’s dream: to join the Behavioral Crimes Unit. Ella’s hidden obsession of gaining an encyclopedic knowledge of serial killers has led to her being singled out for her brilliant mind, and invited to join the big leagues.

But this time Ella finds herself in a cat and mouse chase with no way out, and she must wonder if she is hunting—or the one who is hunted….

A nail-biting and harrowing crime thriller featuring a brilliant and tortured FBI agent, the ELLA DARK series is a riveting mystery, packed with suspense, twists and turns, revelations, and driven by a breakneck pace that will keep you flipping pages late into the night.

Future books in the series are now available.

©2024 Blake Pierce (P)2024 Blake Pierce

Same writer?

The writing seemed different than the normal. Too many idioms, Ella’s character was not the same has in previous books. Also, the change of narrator impacted the overall enjoyment for me.

Distracting and Unfamiliar

I enjoyed the idea of Ella in a new adventure with a new partner, while Ripley is occupied with personal troubles. While the formula is essentially the same, the killer was just weird and undeveloped.
The new narrator’s voice doesn’t suit the tough FBI agent character, sounding more like somebody’s mother. She mispronounced basic words like “voila” pronounced as “Viola” which was further distracting.
Pierce’s repetitively used words and phrases such as “jerked her head/chin/thumb”, “detritus”, “stuck in her craw”, “gaping maw”, “like a _____’s wet dream”, among several others, had me tallying their uses instead of getting into the story.
I still plan to finish the series, but I really hope the remaining books don’t have all of the same problems.

I love all of the stories.

Way too much using the Lords name in vein. Did not like that. Why is it so important??

Idiom after idiom

At one point I counted that every second to third sentence was an idiom and often, there were chains of idioms and analogies. This made the listen difficult and comical.