The Plot Peeker

 Everyone can remember reading the "classics" in high school. And let's be honest, most of us hated them because we were forced to read them. We were told we had to and then had to write those dreaded summaries based off of what we read.  Let's also be honest in the fact that most of what we read went over our heads. The literature we were reading was written mainly by adults. Then we as teenagers are required to read about the things adults had lived through and expected to understand it.  Now, don't get me wrong, that is great for trying to expand the mind. And some kids got it. Most of us didn't. I will be the first to admit that the books I read in high school mean different things now that I'm an adult.  Let's take The Picture of Dorian Gray for example. I read it in high school and loved it. I still love it. When I read it as a teenager, I thought I understood the things Dorian was going through. It wasn't until I reread it as an adult that ...

 Eden Mercer is a young, K-9 cop in the small town of Nightfall, Oregon. Not only does she have the trials of being a young, female police officer, her past haunts her in ways that takes years of therapy to work through. An abusive cult-leader father, running away from the cult as a teenager, and now trying to liberate her mother and her other siblings before it's too late for all of them. At first, I wasn't sure where the author was going with these books and I almost gave up on the first one. By the end of the first book, however, I was surprisingly emotionally invested in Eden's life. I wanted her to find her siblings, to be accepted by her coworkers for the smart, hard working officer she is.  Each book in this series is, in my opinion, better than the one before. Paige Black seems to find her rhythm the more of the story she writes.  These books are all interconnected and should be read in order. I have not currently read Corrupt Code, which is the newest installment...