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Chelsea cain heartsick series5/27/2023 This can make it a lot less convincing on why Archie keeps returning to her every Sunday afternoon. Lecter’s mannerisms are formed around fine art and intellectual witticisms, where Gretchen’s are much more coarse and vulgar in nature. Whereas Clarice went back to Hannibal Lecter for the necessity of solving the case, it appears that Archie only returns to Gretchen out of a warped sense of Stockholm syndrome. It can easily read as a pale comparison due to its similar premise of ‘use captured serial killer to help capture the current one’.Īlthough not as well-written as its predecessor, Heartsick does change a few key elements. The problem here is stepping too close to its original model The Silence of the Lambs. Heartsick is a gruesome read that reaches dizzying heights and equally brutal lows with its well-versed characters and likeable serial killer. It quickly becomes apparent that Archie is still heavily dependent on the ‘beauty killer’ Gretchen. A simple catch-the-serial-killer plot, in theory at least. Teaming with hungry news reporter Susan Ward, they must find the killer before he does too much damage. Two years on, he’s asked back into the force to help investigate a spate of copycat killings of teenage girls in the area. He was tortured for ten days by Gretchen, until she mysteriously decided to spare him his life and turn herself in but why?
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