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It’s been too long, he realizes. He hasn’t killed anyone in almost a month.
This was twisted and disturbing and incredibly gripping, especially the last forty or fifty pages. Holy cow.
This was my bedtime read in early May. Allergy season. Which means I started taking loratadine. Which is the equivalent (for me) of popping an Ambien before cracking open the book each night. Which was great for my sleep but meant my reading comprehension was for shit, and I was prone to vivid dreams after readi ...more
Well, okay. This was an amazing book. Amazing. And also will rip your heart out.
I think at its heart this book is a feminist take on the woman-killing serial killer. The author put the focus on each of the victims, more skillfully than I'm used to, and gave us everything from their perspective. They were killed because they were amazing, and there isn't a sentence in the book that invites us to find them sexy in death (as opposed to practically every other murder show and book in existence). But ...more
I think at its heart this book is a feminist take on the woman-killing serial killer. The author put the focus on each of the victims, more skillfully than I'm used to, and gave us everything from their perspective. They were killed because they were amazing, and there isn't a sentence in the book that invites us to find them sexy in death (as opposed to practically every other murder show and book in existence). But ...more
I'm not sure how I feel about this book. The premise of a time traveling serial killer honestly terrified me at times during this book. Harper targets women as children and then returns years later to kill them. An almost victim tries to track the killer down but doesn't know about Harper's ability. Each chapter changes perspective so you get an icky insider view on why Harper kills and what he is thinking when he does it. The end seems abrupt and is unsatisfying.
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The reviews called The Shining Girls "this year's Gone Girl" and for once, they were right. This was the creepiest, scariest, most unique and f*&@ed up thing I've read since - you guessed it - Gone Girl. Now if only someone could explain the ending to me...
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