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I enjoyed reading THE FIELDS by Erin Young. It is a good story and I liked the characters. It gets very exciting and suspenseful near the end.
I would definitely recommend it.
I had one problem with it. The names of the characters. So many of the first names are last names to me. Riley, Logan, Jackson Taylor. Sometimes the author referred to them by last name and sometimes by first names. It was confusing to me. Probably my age.

Like a train leaving a station, Erin Young's debut novel starts slowly as she introduces myriad threads that require a reader's focus because as the story progresses and picks up speed, the characters and plots begin to mesh accelerating to a wild and surprising conclusion. She successfully creates two voices in partners Sergeant Riley Fisher and Deputy Logan Wood as they unravel a number of seemingly unrelated violent crimes. The reader is provided subtle hints as the story progresses and all loose ends are tied up in the final two chapters. It is impressive that Erin Young, an Englishwoman, is so knowledgeable of farming issues and life in America's farm belt.

This was a very slow story that took its time grabbing its audience. So many times i picked up the book only to thing of anything else I could be doing. A great book will hook the reader who will no longer even hear their spouse over the roar of the words.

The plot was nothing new; however, the story line did pick up just over halfway through the book. The stale character analysis hurt the pace of the book and had me rolling my eyes several times.

Having read several good books this year, it was disappointing to feel I was wasting time on a story that wouldn't stay with me. I could not recommend this book to anyone.

I found this novel quite complicated. The premise was good, and the writing is very good, but I was somehow dissatisfied. I am not a big fan of "teases", and there was plenty of that regarding the main character's past. I think that there were so many characters that there wasn't enough development of their backgrounds or personalities, and it became difficult to keep track of who belonged to which group. A bit too much going on, some of it quite predictable (jealous male co-worker, dangerous weather). But promising.

I wanted to like this book but there was too much gore. Think Silence of the Lambs and you all know what I mean.

The setting is Iowa, murder takes place in a corn field and it goes on from there. If you like to read a mystery that includes a brutal, savage killer this is the book for you. The author is talented but this left me very uneasy. If that was what the author wanted she succeeded!

This crime/mystery debut is not one novel it is many. There are so many plots within subplots it became very confusing. Out protagonist is young Riley Fisher newly promoted head of investigations for the Sheriff's office in Iowa. Her first case is the heinous murder of her good friend left to die in a Iowa cornfield. This leads to several other cases involving her niece, her brother, the two governors running for office, the candidate's sister, drug dealing, farm co-ops versus big Ag and Riley's nemesis Hunter who supposedly raped her when she was young. This sub plot was never fully developed and I assume it might be in the next book of the series Erin Young is planning. The author tried very hard to connect all the people in the book within all the sub plots and to tie everything together at the end, but I think it was an impossible task.

Although I thought it was pretty good, I wouldn't recommend it to others. I did like the Riley/Logan team. I might read another book with that team as the main characters.

I also found it a bit hard to keep up with all the suspected killers. And there were just too many bad guys in black SUVs.

This book was okay. I read a lot of mysteries and suspense and was hoping for something original and fresh. The Fields was neither of these. You knew who the "bad guy" was almost in the first chapter. Riley's backstory is so commonplace now in books about female police officers and detectives. Also, many of the relationships in the book seemed to fit the same old stereotypes-the resentful male police officers, the bad brother. I did like the characters of Riley and Logan. I enjoyed reading and learning about some of the issues in agriculture today. I will be honest, I was disappointed in this book. I had hoped for so much more.