Angels Burning

Trigger Warning: child abuse, pedophilia, suicideDove Carnahan is a 50 year old female police chief with only six officers under her command. The young and mostly mentioned duo are 23 years old, only two years younger than myself, so that was definitely an interesting aspect for me. Hearing someone around my age being called young and when it got boring one summer “used a magnifying glass to burn ants” was a bit weird. Firstly because I don't feel young, and secondly because sometimes they seemed to be written younger than they were. I just really needed to get that out there. This book really dived deep into the life of Dove's family and the Truly family. The mystery is there, but even though Dove is the chief of police, she isn't focused on the police procedure. She actually does more leg work than I thought a police chief would do, from all the episodes I've seen of Law & Order. Now, this isn't all to say the book is not interesting, because OH, it is. There are depths to characters and no one is really a stereotypical ‘good person' everyone has multiple sides of them and even bad or dangerous people have decent sides to them. I thought the writing and characterization was done extremely well. I did have a problem with Dove as a character, who seemed a bit all over the place to me. Some of her actions did not make sense to me or her responses to people would blow me away with her rudeness. She is not a bad cop, but at the same time in the real world her badge would have been taken away. Her thoughts of not being the other woman while sleeping with a married man made me roll my eyes. So, not liking the main character did make this a bit aggravating to read. All in all it was an entertaining book, a great story with an emotional ending, and gave me some food for thought.Readalikes: [b:All the Missing Girls 23212667 All the Missing Girls Megan Miranda https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1452098621s/23212667.jpg 42755300], [b:Déjà Dead 231604 Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1) Kathy Reichs https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1334157601s/231604.jpg 866667], [b:Walking the Perfect Square 1868218 Walking the Perfect Square (Moe Prager #1) Reed Farrel Coleman https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1316937731s/1868218.jpg 1869015], [b:The Stranger You Seek 10316707 The Stranger You Seek (Keye Street #1) Amanda Kyle Williams https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388625775s/10316707.jpg 15219030], [b:Every Last Secret 12943346 Every Last Secret Linda Rodriguez https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1322947828s/12943346.jpg 18099853]