Betrayal (Empty Coffin Series #2)

You people are traders!!!!!!!! :(

U are suppose to be on gods side NOT the devils. The devil wants murder not god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The devil probably whisperd in the authors ear "write a book about a girls friend that kills her"

LOVE THIS SERIES!!!!!

I have been a fan of Mr. Olsen for years. When he first came out with "The Empty Coffin" series, I was a bit skeptical. I was used to his true crime stories and adult nonfiction. I am ecstatic I gave this series a chance. Mr. Olsen does a fantastic job of taking a true story line and turning it into a fantastic fictional murder mystery that leaves a person with alot to think about concerning human nature.

Although you COULD read this as a stand-alone book, I highly recommend you read "Envy" first, as there are some subplots going on concerning the twins that may leave you a little confused if you have not read the first in the series.

I am highly enjoying the evolving story of these special girls and their special talent. I cannot wait for the next installment!

-- SPeeD

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This booky was aweshume haha i wuv it

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For as long as I can remember I've always loved a good murder my

For as long as I can remember I've always loved a good murder mystery novel! And I'm pretty sure I always will. There's just something about a good mystery that keeps me reading a book. Now add a little bit of the paranormal element and I'm definitely hooked! Even if I have it somewhat figured out, I'm going to read it to the end just to see if I'm right or wrong!

When reading Envy, I couldn't get enough of the mystery that is surrounding twins Haley and Taylor. Even after Betrayal, their special abilities haven't been truly explained but it's still fun to get wrapped up in their world. I love how we get to see so many aspects of the twins lives and see how most of the time they work in perfect sync but then how they also argue.

I really enjoy how Olsen writes the mystery. He gives away the clues that are only necessary and as the story evolves, more is revealed and the pieces fall into place. It's probably the reason why I have never been able to figure out who is the murderer. Betrayal is such a great murder mystery because of the characters, the dark and gloomy setting and because of the touch of paranormal! I give Betrayal 4 hearts for being a mystery that I couldn't figure out!

Great #2

A great book! I enjoy this series!

Great Book

If you liked the first book youll love this one. It has a great plot and lots of twists and turns thats will keep you hooked!

Very gripping!!

I fell in love with the series from the first book envy, and Betrayal follows right along with the suspense and mystery. Hayley and Taylor Ryan are still searching for information on the tragic bus accident when they were young and the unusual ability they have to see into the past just by touching things.
But a Halloween party given by queen bee Brianna turns out to have an actual dead body at the house, the body of Olivia, a British exchange student. What follows is a wild ride of suspects and twist and turns,but never for a minute does it give you a reason to stop reading.
The basis for the book was the circumstances of the Amanda Knox case and the parallels with this case and the Italy case are really close, but it makes you really think alot on what Amanda had to go through.
This second book keeps you guessing and really makes me look forward to the third book in the series.

Chapter by Chapter's review of BETRAYAL

Since I loved Envy by author Gregg Olsen, I knew that I would absolutely love Betrayal, the sequel in the Empty Coffin series. If you are a fan of Envy (and just reading the murder mystery is destined to make you are a fan) then you have been dying to read Betrayal. The synopsis probably caught your attention and the creepy cover is what had you hooked. As with the first novel in the series, Betrayal does a lot more than deliver. The first chapter, that holds that murder of Olivia Grant is beyond terrifying. It’s thrilling, dark, and intense. Not in a way that has you scared out of your mind, but in a way that has you cringing (in a good way) at the details of a knife slicing through skin and of a murder.

Betrayal is a lot different than Envy. Whereas Envy was a story that focused on bullying and a not-so suicide, Betrayal focuses on an actual homicide. That’s right. Homicide. Murder. Somebody killing another somebody. The novel (which has parts that are based on real events) revolves around the murder of foreign exchange student Olivia Grant. Characters from Envy are possible suspects in the murder. The story doesn’t center around the Ryan twins Hayley and Taylor as much as it did in the past novel, and instead takes place mostly through the POV (point of view) of other characters. Including Brianna, Drew and the Chief of Police.

I found myself comparing Betrayal to CSI more than anything, which is something that I didn’t find myself doing while I read the past novel. Betrayal holds more chapters that show the police trying to figure out the murders, which includes lots of interrogations, evidence gathering, and discovering cadavers. The one thing that I enjoyed most in Betrayal were the few chapters in the killer’s POV, not because he killed somebody (duh), but because they gave the story more hype. It had me taking in every detail in an attempt to figure out who the serial killer might be.

When chapters were seen through the Ryan twins eyes, the two girls begin to gather more words via their psychic abilities and begin to uncover more clues that lead to Olivia Grant’s killer. The girls are terrorized a lot more in this novel and begin to receive texts from the “Text Creeper”. Who he is, I’m not allowed to say. All I know is that you can expect the Ryan twins to try and discover more about their abilities.

All in all, I found the ending of the novel very unexpected. Mainly because the motives behind the killer’s actions were ones that I didn’t imagine. Like the story before it, Betrayal will have readers sitting on the edge of their seats. I would recommend this series to readers who want a series that is just amazing. Like I said in the review of Envy, if you like murder mysteries and thrillers, then the Empty Coffin series is definitely for you.

Intensely interesting and based off real events!

It's Halloween in Port Gamble and the place to be is at Brianna's party. But after the party, Brianna discovers foreign exchange student Olivia gruesomely murdered in her bed. Soon Brianna and her boyfriend are both suspects in the murder, but twins Hayley and Taylor have a sense that something more is afoot. While they're trying to solve the murder using their own special abilities, the local police department is botching up the investigation.

Like its predecessor Envy, Betrayal was such an interesting murder mystery and I absolutely loved every minute. Gregg Olsen has a way to weave a mystery that makes it almost impossible to guess the truth. Sure when you read a mystery, you know it's probably not who you think it is, but when the end comes and you learn the truth, the Empty Coffin series will leave you surprised. I know I was!

The twins Hayley and Taylor really are the stars of this novel. Their special abilities to see the future and past are such an asset to solving crimes and when the victims are classmates, it's understandable they would want to use their ability to help. But that's not the start and end of their plot; their family makes for an interesting mystery itself. Their mother is obviously hiding something about her past and the twins are also itching to know what happened to her. Their father writes mysteries and I can't help but wonder if Olsen put a little of himself in that character. We did finally learn more about the twins' mother in Betrayal, but I have a feeling there's a lot more this family that we'll learn about in subsequent novels.

As strange as it sounds, I found the afterword of the novel to be extremely interesting. Olsen seems to be basing the crimes in his Empty Coffin series off real events. In Envy, the plot was loosely based off a real case of bullying. In Betrayal, the plot is loosely based off the story of Amanda Knox. She accused of murdering her roommate while studying-aborad in Italy. I didn't follow that news piece at all, so when Olsen explained the parallels I was quite surprised and intrigued. The fact that the Empty Coffin novels are based off real events makes the books that much more exciting to read. I'm eagerly anticipating the third novel, Guilty, to see what real-life drama will show up in its pages.

Four stars! I loved the mystery in this novel and I think this is a great fall read as Halloween approaches. While you could potentially read Betrayal as a stand-alone, I highly recommend you read the first book in the series, Envy, first since it will give a lot of the background information on the twin's ability and family life. References to Envy are pretty frequent throughout Betrayal. I think it's a little unfortunate these books haven't made more of a splash in the YA world, when I think they're definitely worth reading.

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