I wanted to see her confront him about some of the cult things. We just watch her ‘negotiate’ her way through the situation. We hear Abby’s thought process as she has some realizations but she doesn’t specifically voice them to Moses. That definitely added to the showdown scene but I felt that I wanted more dialogue about the past. He wanted to make sure to add the ‘other’ character- the fire. In his acknowledgements at the end Omer talks about how he had wanted to write a showdown between Moses and Abby. As they depart each church, they also leave behind a burning house where they have tied up a victim to meet their fiery fate.Ībby teams up with Zoe Bentley to try to correctly profile Moses and predict where he is going and how to stop him without more people getting hurt. He is traveling with his followers through a series of connected church locations. Now that Abby knows Moses Wilcox is her father and that he intends to get her and her children back into “his flock” she can’t rest until she has tracked him down and can be sure he can’t come for them anymore.įollowing a trail of arson, Abby gets a solid lead on Wilcox’s whereabouts. This one picks up one month after book two- Damaged Intentions- when the hostage situation took place at Abby’s daughter’s school. This sexual fantasy component is new to this book, but comes as no surprise considering the information we have on most cults out there. He is aroused by fire and is convinced that he must have sex with various members of his group (while the fire is raging and the victims are screaming) in fulfilling ‘God’s will’ of procreating little ‘angels’ to protect their group during the end times. He is obsessed with fire as a cleansing process but he also has a fetish. In this book we have people being burned alive at the hands of Moses and his cult.Īs the book is titled, we figure out Moses’s burning obsession. That being said, the last notable difference with this book is that the cult stuff vamps up a bit. To follow this theme we have to understand more of who Moses is and I believe that’s why Omer decided to give us more access to what drives Moses. He is just a man and he is not invincible. And Abby is still being controlled by her perception of him. He’s a man who happens to be very good at making people do what he wants.’” Zoe is convinced Abby isn’t seeing him accurately. But if Abby is going to deal with her past, she is going to have to confront who Moses Wilcox actually is. Up until now he’s been pretty elusive and mysterious. This book is more about wrapping up Abby’s trauma with her past and focusing on the relationship between Abby and Zoe Bentley- a character from a previous trilogy Mike Omer has written- as their spheres intersect and they work the case together.Īnother difference with this third book is that we have access to what Moses Wilcox is thinking and feeling. Not having the other survivors feels a bit unsatisfying because I feel like they needed this closure too and they had been talking with Abby about things in the previous two books. I think her son, Ben’s, pet spider gets more page real estate than he does! We also don’t have her work partner, Will, or the other two cult survivors from her childhood. It has the same suspense, crisis negotiation, and freaky cult stuff as the previous two but this one is a little different.Ībby’s family is fairly absent in this book. (You can read my full list in my Damaged Intentions review)īut I suppose this title fits so I won’t hold a grudge. I am a bit disappointed that my prediction on book title was wrong. This has been a good trilogy that I stumbled upon on NetGalley. Abby would chase Moses Wilcox to the ends of the earth to protect her children.” The only way she could know peace was with Moses behind bars. A Burning Obsession (Abby Mullen Thrillers #3)
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