After reading the first book of the series, I purchased this one for just $.99 and jumped right in. The story seemed interesting--a missing Doomsday Diary which, of course, led to a murder case early in the book. I was rather disappointed by the whole thing, though. A romance between the main character (Harley) and another character seemed to come out of nowhere. It's clear that the two have had a history together, but with so little detail of their relationship in either of the first two books, I was scratching my head over how they seemed to go from acquaintances to "I love you" with very little context or character development. Another criticism I have is that the author seemed so determined to keep it clean that, instead of using many (if any) curse words, she overused the word "crap" to the point that I wanted to scream. It felt like every other page included the word and it ended at least three chapters! When I got to "double crap!" I was annoyed enough to nearly stop reading altogether. What were probably intended as plot twists and surprises seemed to just be very contrived and convenient revelations for Harley (like when Monty the cat swatted her iPad or iPhone and reopened an email and oh, crap! she saw something new in the email!), and I was sure the villain was going to end on "and I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!" Between these things and all the typos, I probably would have stopped after this book if I hadn't already downloaded the third for free.