I was surprised at some of the reactions to certain actions, and though I was left with more questions, I’ll try to be patient while anxiously awaiting the conclusion to this hard-hitting series. The Hive is certainly an interesting place to be. Even more so, I imagine, when chaos reigns. It’s hard for me to imagine such evil human beings exist, but I’ve come to believe that in this day and age anything is possible. The events in this book didn’t shock me as much as some of the happenings in the previous books, but one specific character (who thankfully takes his last breath in this installment) still managed to terrify me with his presence and his strife-causing doings. In keeping with the previous four books, plot twists and secrets are plentiful, although there are also several revelations.

In “Evil Among Us” the suspense and intrigue builds up to breaking point and seeing as this is the second to last book in this series, I was riveted. With each new release in the Species Intervention #6609 Series, my expectations keep getting higher, and as yet Accinni has not let me down. I’m not on social media.After finishing the fourth book in this magnificent series, I couldn’t wait for the release of the fifth, titled “Evil Among Us”. Their escape from the asylum in the company of another inmate sets into motion a series of adventures and misadventures that are at once hilarious, deeply moving, and downright terrifying. Chin has run afoul of the law and Sarah has been committed for observation. In the first of many such instances, they are separated, both resurfacing some days later at an insane asylum. When black-cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a railway camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort “the ugliest woman he could imagine” away. One character is Chinese American, another putatively mentally ill, a third a feminist, and lastly Sarah herself. Sarah Canary, Fowler’s debut novel, involves a group of people alienated by nineteenth century America experiencing a peculiar kind of first contact. Karen Joy Fowler is best known as the author of the best-selling novel The Jane Austen Book Club that was made into a movie of the same name.

Evil Among Us by J.K. Accinni