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In the Cut: A Novel
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This book feels like a cruel trick because it does a lot of things right but in combination they don't really work. IN THE CUT is an edgy thriller that kind of feels like Dangerous Minds if it was written by Andrew Vachss. The heroine, an inner city high school teacher in New York, collects slang the way other people collect coins and has suspect relationships with her low-income students. When a woman turns up murdered in her area, she also starts having kinky and equally suspect sex with the Irish cop on the case. Because a girl in her hoe phase has to be in her hoe phase.
IN THE CUT feels like a very mean book. The non-ending doesn't give closure, it throws around slurs and racial stereotypes like rice at a wedding, and the heroine makes all kinds of foolish choices for no apparent reason. Also, someone just straight up gets their nip sliced off, and it's just another day in the park as far as this book is concerned.
I feel like I have whiplash and not in a good way.
2.5 stars
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Nenia ✨ I yeet my books back and forth ✨ Campbell's review
bookshelves: thriller, you-can-watch-it-on-the-telly, dark-and-twisted
Dec 13, 2023
bookshelves: thriller, you-can-watch-it-on-the-telly, dark-and-twisted
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This book feels like a cruel trick because it does a lot of things right but in combination they don't really work. IN THE CUT is an edgy thriller that kind of feels like Dangerous Minds if it was written by Andrew Vachss. The heroine, an inner city high school teacher in New York, collects slang the way other people collect coins and has suspect relationships with her low-income students. When a woman turns up murdered in her area, she also starts having kinky and equally suspect sex with the Irish cop on the case. Because a girl in her hoe phase has to be in her hoe phase.
IN THE CUT feels like a very mean book. The non-ending doesn't give closure, it throws around slurs and racial stereotypes like rice at a wedding, and the heroine makes all kinds of foolish choices for no apparent reason. Also, someone just straight up gets their nip sliced off, and it's just another day in the park as far as this book is concerned.
I feel like I have whiplash and not in a good way.
2.5 stars
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Reading Progress
December 10, 2023
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Started Reading
December 10, 2023
– Shelved
December 10, 2023
– Shelved as:
thriller
December 10, 2023
– Shelved as:
you-can-watch-it-on-the-telly
December 13, 2023
– Shelved as:
dark-and-twisted
December 13, 2023
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Finished Reading