After reading Karin Slaughter's 'Girl, Forgotten' - I was really hoping this one would be better in terms of the mystery - AND IT WAS!!! So many movinAfter reading Karin Slaughter's 'Girl, Forgotten' - I was really hoping this one would be better in terms of the mystery - AND IT WAS!!! So many moving pieces and parts of this story in the seedy world of the quietly rich. I had fun figuring out who the real villain(s) were.
THOUGHTS: - Karin Slaughter has a talent for writing books that point in the direction of the person(s) committing the crime, but as in real life - these people are hard to catch. You need evidence. No going in guns half-cocked. These cases are so horrendous that people committing the crimes must be locked away tightly. You read every line because you, the reader, become invested in finding those small clues that will lock them away forever. (Because, as we all know - that's how people get caught.. they get lazy and leave something small unattended!)
- Something else Slaughter does well is the creation of the quietly insane unlikeable female. She's unlikeable. She's usually not integral to figuring out the crime until seen in a certain light - and I think that's a hard character to right. They're sociopaths hidden in plain sight. Men are often the ones we look at as committing horrible crimes - but women? We typically tend to put them in the victim box, so when they're the perpetrators, puppeteers, or masterminds behind violent crimes? Shocking.
NOTES: - CWs: Graphic descriptions of the aftermath of s3xual assault
**Thank you to William Morrow & NetGalley for the advanced reader copy. I received this book for free, but all thoughts are my own. – SLR ...more
Where to even start? The first thing I want to say about this book is if you are raising a child that bullies others.. you should 1000% be ashamed of Where to even start? The first thing I want to say about this book is if you are raising a child that bullies others.. you should 1000% be ashamed of yourself. Period.
THOUGHTS: - This is one of those books that allows you to really pull back the curtain on what childhood trauma can do. When children terrorize other children, it never ends well.. and what happens when those people grow up? They're probably still awful hooman beings.
- Multiple POVs execution: the only problem with the other POVs was that I felt like they all sounded a bit similar. But then I realize that was probably also intentionally done to show how like-minded these women still were from their teenage years. You're supposed to grow up but if you don't do that, and you lack the capability to make new friends... it's probably a personal problem not everyone else!!
***She Started It was a BOTM add-on in August, and I’m so glad I started reading this weekend ! Right now, my Book of The Month tally is 30 Loves, 7 Likes, and 3 Loathed.Learn more about a Book of The Month Club subscription here.(It's not a referral link, just FYI. ...more
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