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Downfall (Intervention #3)
by
Terri Blackstock (Goodreads Author)
Emily Covington has turned her life around after a drug addiction, but her family still has trouble trusting her. Though Emily has committed herself to a year-long treatment program and has been sober for almost a year beyond that, even her mother walks on eggshells around her, fearing she'll relapse. After her behavior during her drug years, Emily realizes she has a lot t...more
Paperback, 295 pages
Published
February 16th 2012
by Zondervan
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Feb 21, 2012
Book Him Danno
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A good romance with a God centered character who wants to reform her ways and become someone that she and others can rely on. I will be reviewing this title on my blog in the next few weeks and copy the full review here at that time.
This is a fast paced murder mystery that starts with a bang. Poor Emily and her family are caught in the middle of something they have no idea about. Past experiences shade the way the family response to Emily and this crisis. In life we all shade our experience fro...more
This is a fast paced murder mystery that starts with a bang. Poor Emily and her family are caught in the middle of something they have no idea about. Past experiences shade the way the family response to Emily and this crisis. In life we all shade our experience fro...more
I am always amazed by Christian authors who can write such unbelievable, action-packed mystery books that really draw the reader in and keep him/her on the edge of his/her seat. And Terri Blackstock is indeed one of those authors. Once I seriously began reading, I almost could not put it down.
Drugs and alcohol have been a part of our family, but I am basically unfamiliar with this world. The author herself writes from her own experience, and it makes all the difference. I can sense her heart, an...more
Drugs and alcohol have been a part of our family, but I am basically unfamiliar with this world. The author herself writes from her own experience, and it makes all the difference. I can sense her heart, an...more
Emily is a recovering drug addict. So when life around her starts to fall apart, it's very difficult for her family to believe that she has nothing to do with it.
Murder, drug addicts, and love are all in this thriller. It's the final book in the Intervention series and while I haven't read the first books, I'd have to say it's a winner.
The story plot kept me guessing the entire time. I enjoy a mystery that keeps me guessing or throws in the unexpected. It was fast paced and yet had time to weave...more
Murder, drug addicts, and love are all in this thriller. It's the final book in the Intervention series and while I haven't read the first books, I'd have to say it's a winner.
The story plot kept me guessing the entire time. I enjoy a mystery that keeps me guessing or throws in the unexpected. It was fast paced and yet had time to weave...more
Do you love reading Edgy Christian fiction ? Find it more engrossing than your everyday sweet, inspirational, romantic or Amish christian fiction ? For me personally, I have always been a huge fan of this theme of genre as it excites me, it intrigues and draws me in as well as the fact it is fascinating to read about. Downfall is the third book in Terri Blackstock's Intervention series which follows the Covington family of Emily, Lance and their mother Barbara. Downfall is set two years later an...more
MY THOUGHTS ON THIS BOOK
Terri Blackstock is such a gifted writer. I love everything she writes including “Downfall.” I appreciate that Terri deals with tough issues that people deal with everyday, and always finds a workable solution, including trusting the Lord with their lives and letting Him work in and through them.
Emily Covington wants to prove herself to everyone, assuring them that her life with drugs is over. But when things start happening to her, and since it looks like someone wants h...more
Terri Blackstock is such a gifted writer. I love everything she writes including “Downfall.” I appreciate that Terri deals with tough issues that people deal with everyday, and always finds a workable solution, including trusting the Lord with their lives and letting Him work in and through them.
Emily Covington wants to prove herself to everyone, assuring them that her life with drugs is over. But when things start happening to her, and since it looks like someone wants h...more
Emily is a former drug user who caused much trouble and danger for her family. She is now clean and sober and attending college when trouble seems to find her again. Just when things seem to be going well, her life starts spiraling out of control.
This is a good mystery with twists that kept me guessing until the end. The theme of trust runs throughout this book as evidence shows up that makes Emily look bad. Her family loves her, but can’t help but wonder if she has slipped back into addiction....more
This is a good mystery with twists that kept me guessing until the end. The theme of trust runs throughout this book as evidence shows up that makes Emily look bad. Her family loves her, but can’t help but wonder if she has slipped back into addiction....more
I was captivated by Intervention and Vicious Cycle, so I jumped at the chance to review this final book in the series. In a word: Wow! Terri Blackstock once again kept me riveted to the page into the wee hours. She has seamlessly showed the perspective of the story from various angles: Emily's struggles, her mother's roller coaster of emotions, Lance's experiences, and Homicide Detective Kent Harlan's professional and personal commitment. She even pulls back the killer's mask just enough to allo...more
Emily Covington, despite her past life of severe drug addiction, has turned her life around, committing her self to a yearlong treatment program and has been completely sober for a little over a year now. Despite her efforts though, her family still has trouble trusting her, always afraid that she may relapse; Emily has a lot to prove.
One morning as Emily rushes out to her car to make it on time for her college exam, she sets fire to her car by turning the ignition and discovers a homemade bomb...more
One morning as Emily rushes out to her car to make it on time for her college exam, she sets fire to her car by turning the ignition and discovers a homemade bomb...more
I read this description and was so excited to receive this book. The part that escaped my mind was the THIRD OF THE SERIES. I have obviously not read the first two. It turned out to be okay because Blackstock filled me in on what had happened in the character’s past.
This book was great at opening my eyes to how serious a drug problem could be. The struggle doesn’t end when you go to rehab or decide to quit. It takes a long time to earn trust back as well as develop new thought processes and hab...more
This book was great at opening my eyes to how serious a drug problem could be. The struggle doesn’t end when you go to rehab or decide to quit. It takes a long time to earn trust back as well as develop new thought processes and hab...more
Emily has finally turned her life around, but she learns that trust is not so easily earned back. The reader should refer back to the first books in the series to make sure that he/she understands the magnitude of Emily's change and the overall significance. The reader will be happy to re-acquaint him/herself with the familiar characters and meet a few new characters. Emily knows that someone is after her, but she doesn't know the motive or who the antagonist could possibly be. She must discover...more
In the final book of the Intervention series, Emily, who has been sober for two years, is still trying to convince herself and her family that she has put her drug use behind her. When she finds a bomb under her car, leaving her past behind gets a little harder, especially when people connected to her start dying….and Emily is blamed. Will her mom and Kent be able to find the killer before Emily is the next victim?
What I have enjoyed most about this series is that it realistically shows the stru...more
What I have enjoyed most about this series is that it realistically shows the stru...more
I’ve been following the Intervention Series since it came out. Downfall is the third and last book in the series and what an ending to the series. I loved it. This series shows and tells us how drug use really causes so much harm and how things escalate out of control. No one who takes that first drug ever thinks they will be a drug addict. It just leads to more and more bad decisions.
All of Terri Blackstock’s books are fantastic and Downfall is also.
The same compelling characters as the fi...more
All of Terri Blackstock’s books are fantastic and Downfall is also.
The same compelling characters as the fi...more
Downfall is the third book in the Intervention Series, and sees the return of the Covington family. Emily Covington has worked hard to achieve two years of sobriety from her drug addictions that so damaged her family, while her mom has obtained a new job and her brother Lance is trying to survive highschool. The progress and healing the family has experienced is cast into doubt when a home-made bomb is attached to Emily's car and a woman is murdered. The cascade of events that follows thrusts Em...more
Mar 17, 2012
Melanie
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This is the third book in Terri Blackstock's "Intervention" series.
The story takes place in Georgia, new home for the Covington family. Emily is trying to escape her drug junkie past by going to college and taking a new job. She wants to prove that she can stay clean.
Lance, her brother, is attending a new school where he doesn't seem to fit in and is missing his friends from Jeff City, where he was considered a hero for being involved in helping save a young mom and her baby.
Their mom, Barbar...more
The story takes place in Georgia, new home for the Covington family. Emily is trying to escape her drug junkie past by going to college and taking a new job. She wants to prove that she can stay clean.
Lance, her brother, is attending a new school where he doesn't seem to fit in and is missing his friends from Jeff City, where he was considered a hero for being involved in helping save a young mom and her baby.
Their mom, Barbar...more
“Up All Night Fiction” was a pretty good description for what I wanted to do several points in the novel “Downfall”. Over the last three nights I was glued to the pages of this latest suspense and more than once didn’t want to go to bed, but to only keep reading for one…more…chapter. (They are short, honestly!)
After following the characters of Emily, Lance, Barbara and Kent for three books, you’ve come to know them and how they think and act in a scene. I’ve really enjoyed seeing Emily progress...more
After following the characters of Emily, Lance, Barbara and Kent for three books, you’ve come to know them and how they think and act in a scene. I’ve really enjoyed seeing Emily progress...more
Emily Covington has been a drug addict, liar, and about everything else. She's turned her life around, and moved with her mother and brother to Atlanta, started college, and is working at Haven House, a drug rehab where people are 'sentenced' to spend some time, to get off drugs.
Someone plants a bomb under her car, then 2 wives of former Haven House patients are killed, and suddenly she is accused of murder. Who is trying to get her arrested? And why?
Arrested and transferred to Alabama, Emily is...more
Someone plants a bomb under her car, then 2 wives of former Haven House patients are killed, and suddenly she is accused of murder. Who is trying to get her arrested? And why?
Arrested and transferred to Alabama, Emily is...more
I have to tell you about a new book that is being released tomorrow! It is by Terri Blackstock and many of you may already know her. I loved reading Shadow in Serenity this fall. I have a friend who loves Terri and is going to share her books with me. Isn't that what friends do?
Well let me tell you about 'Downfall'. It is a great quick read but full of twist and turns. I loved the realism of a family dealing with recovery as the focal point to the story. It is hard to have trust once it has been...more
Well let me tell you about 'Downfall'. It is a great quick read but full of twist and turns. I loved the realism of a family dealing with recovery as the focal point to the story. It is hard to have trust once it has been...more
Emily has come through a long fight to overcome her drug addiction, but she has successfully navigated her abstinence for two years. Barbara, her mother, stood by and suffered with her during the worst and Emily is having trouble earning her trust. Barbara believes the nightmare begins anew every time Emily stays out late or does something she did during her years of addiction. Emily attends college now and enjoys her new addiction-free friends—who stay out late.
When Barbara comes to Atlanta to...more
When Barbara comes to Atlanta to...more
Terri Blackstock's Downfall completes her Intervention series with more drama for the Covington family.
Emily Covington has successfully beaten her drug habit and turned her life around -- or at least that is the way things appear. However, earning trust -- even from her own mother -- continues to be a challenge for her, especially when evidence points toward her falling back into old, destructive ways. When murder comes into the picture, Emily is the only one who figures out what is going on, bu...more
Emily Covington has successfully beaten her drug habit and turned her life around -- or at least that is the way things appear. However, earning trust -- even from her own mother -- continues to be a challenge for her, especially when evidence points toward her falling back into old, destructive ways. When murder comes into the picture, Emily is the only one who figures out what is going on, bu...more
Nov 27, 2012
Michele Minor
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Emily Covington has gotten back on track after recovering from a drug addiction. She has moved with her family to Atlanta where her mother can be close to police detective Kent Harlan and she can get away from her old friends. It begins with the murder of the wife of one of her friends was found murdered on the same morning that she had found a bomb in her car. She has a suspicion of who the murderer is after recalling a conversation that she had overheard during a movie that was playing in the...more
Downfall by Terri Blackstock is a Christian suspense novel that is the third book of the Emily Covington series. The first two are Intervention and Vicious Cycle. This is about Emily’s struggle to stay clean and figure out who is framing her. She has been clean for two years, attends college, and works at a drug rehab facility. One day as she leaves for class, she finds a bomb attached to her car when it causes a fire. The same morning, the wife of one of the addicts from the rehab place is kill...more
Emily has a past that comes back to haunt her in a truly terrifying way. Even though she has been sober for the last two years, Emily has to prove herself again ... building trust isn't easily done.
This is the first book I've read in the series, so I don't know if the same characters are in other Intervention books. Even so, Downfall could pass for a stand-alone. Throughout the book the message of hope is kept alive and staying strong despite dark times proves to be worth it. Emily contacts her...more
This is the first book I've read in the series, so I don't know if the same characters are in other Intervention books. Even so, Downfall could pass for a stand-alone. Throughout the book the message of hope is kept alive and staying strong despite dark times proves to be worth it. Emily contacts her...more
I did not know this was a christian book when I picked it up, and I probably wouldn't have read it if I did know. The story was really good and suspenseful for a good portion of the book. I was really into it and really wanted to know who the killer was (which was an interesting twist). However, the christian stuff in the book was too much for me and I think detracted from the main story. There were a couple of times where I almost didn't even finish it because the christian details were just to...more
This is my first jaunt into the Intervention Series, and I have to say I'm impressed.
Normally a book like this would have me tearing my hair out over being 'told' not 'shown', the convoluted, sometimes silly, and too convenient plot, and the absolute sap drenching the feel-good moments.
But, I actually found myself enjoying Downfall, there was good balance between thriller and personal plot-lines, and the prose, while basic was earnest and easy to read.
Sure, my mind wasn't blown away, nonetheless...more
Normally a book like this would have me tearing my hair out over being 'told' not 'shown', the convoluted, sometimes silly, and too convenient plot, and the absolute sap drenching the feel-good moments.
But, I actually found myself enjoying Downfall, there was good balance between thriller and personal plot-lines, and the prose, while basic was earnest and easy to read.
Sure, my mind wasn't blown away, nonetheless...more
Another great story from Terri Blackstock! I love all of her books. Blackstock's Intervention series is all about teenage drug addiction and what it can do not only to the addict, but also to the entire family. Unfortunately, once a teenager starts down this path, it is extremely difficult for any of his/her family members to help. Outside intervention is nearly always necessary, which is what this series is all about.
It is a great series; I recommend it.
It is a great series; I recommend it.
Apr 05, 2012
Ashley.H
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
everyone who likes a good mystery
as a fan of the Intervention series, I was so happy to stumble upon this book at my local library. It took me a day and a half to read the and it only took that long because I had to sleep. Terri Blackstock has a way of making a story intriguing yet simple and the characters tend to really come alive and like in most of her books you identify with them and their struggles. I think she did an amazing job with this one, and though i'm sad that it is the last book in this series I can't wait to see...more
All of Terri Blackstock's books are great from start to finish...doesn't matter which one I pick up. I know that every single time I read one, I'm going be riveted by the story and glued to every page.
Downfall was no exception. While I'm extremely disappointed that this was the last book in the Intervention series, I can honestly say that it was a great conclusion because truly, the Covington family's nerves are probably frayed to threads after all the ordeals they've been through!
The suspense w...more
Downfall was no exception. While I'm extremely disappointed that this was the last book in the Intervention series, I can honestly say that it was a great conclusion because truly, the Covington family's nerves are probably frayed to threads after all the ordeals they've been through!
The suspense w...more
This is the third in the series. Maybe it's because I read the books back to back, but I found this one really incredible. Crime, mayhem and bad luck follow this family. It just isn't possible to have that much criminal activity surround one upstanding family. The kids are always in the wrong place at the wrong time and this poor mother is put through the wringer! The characters' Christian faith is a strong component to the book, just like all the others. I think the books are well written and i...more
Downfall, by Terri Blackstock, is the third book in the Intervention series. Emily Covington, a long-time drug addict, has turned her life around but her mother still has a hard time believing her transformation is true. Barbara Covington moved their family to Atlanta to be closer to her boyfriend, police detective Kent Harlan. The kids know how in love their mom is with Kent, but starting over is difficult, especially after the things their family has been through. Lance has a really difficult
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Downfall
Terri Blackstock
Book Summary: Book 3 of the Intervention Series. Emily Covington has turned her life around after a drug addiction, but her family still has trouble trusting her. Though Emily has committed herself to a year-long treatment program and has been sober for almost a year beyond that, even her mother walks on eggshells around her, fearing she'll relapse. After her behavior during her drug years, Emily realizes she has a lot to prove. When police discover a homemade bomb under...more
Terri Blackstock
Book Summary: Book 3 of the Intervention Series. Emily Covington has turned her life around after a drug addiction, but her family still has trouble trusting her. Though Emily has committed herself to a year-long treatment program and has been sober for almost a year beyond that, even her mother walks on eggshells around her, fearing she'll relapse. After her behavior during her drug years, Emily realizes she has a lot to prove. When police discover a homemade bomb under...more
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Terri Blackstock is a New York Times best-seller, with over six million copies sold worldwide. She is the winner of two Carol Awards, a Christian Retailers Choice Award, and a Romantic Times Book Reviews Career Achievement Award, among others. She has had over twenty-five years of success as a novelist.
Terri spent the first twelve years of her life traveling in a U.S. Air Force family. She lived...more
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