4.5 to 5 stars... Wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow... Tarryn Fisher, I bow to you... Amazing! Leah is such a hateful character, yet this book was so well written, the story so amazingly woven that one can *almost* feel for Leah. 
 Leah is such an awful person, but we gain some insight into why she is the way she is. She had a pretty crappy childhood, ignored by her alcoholic mother and her power hungry father, and overshadowed by her younger sister. However, this still doesn't give her the right to treat an innocent baby like it's a parasite. Ugh,, awful. 
 I do not feel anything - none of the gushing maternal things my friends relayed to me about their own children. I am not going to be good at this. What was I thinking? 
 I'll tell you what she was thinking, she was thinking that she'd do anything to keep her husband. There is one incident that happens with Leah' s basic hate for the baby which is just so deplorable. It was hard to read, and good for Caleb for not putting up with it. 
 It takes a few seconds to coerce the words from my tongue. "You said you would never hurt me." His eyes are frigid. "That's before you fucked with my daughter." 
 Leah' s hate and obsession for Olivia is toxic in this book. It was obvious how she felt for Olivia in The Opportunist, but what came though in Dirty Red was her paranoia about Olivia. And unfortunately, this is also the reason she eventually loses. 
 We also get more insight into Caleb's actions and his thoughts. And I am so looking forward to reading Thief to get more of Caleb, and Olivia (but hopefully, very little if any of Leah).