I’ll open this review by saying I have a very low tolerance for books or movies that feature torture. I just don’t want those images in my head. I don’t want to think about the fact that human beings do such depraved and terrible things to other human beings. I don’t want to think about the fact that people’s last hours have been filled with pain and horror initiated by the whims of another person. I don’t even want to think about how an author […]
Cop culture in the 1970s
After all the violence in the last book, I almost didn’t bother with this one; however, it was much less bloody but not without its gritty realism. The book is set in the 1970s, with a madman on the loose targeting cops and a police force that is in turmoil. This is the world that Kate Murphy has stepped into – it’s her first day on the job and she isn’t prepared for the harsh reality of a macho environment. There aren’t many women on […]
Deeply disturbing and graphically violent
As per the blurb: Karin Slaughter returns with a sophisticated and chilling psychological thriller of dangerous secrets, cold vengeance, and unexpected absolution, in which two estranged sisters must come together to find truth about two harrowing tragedies, twenty years apart, that devastate their lives. This was a deeply disturbing book – well written, with great attention to plot and detail, but overall disturbing. I would warn anyone thinking of reading this that it contains highly graphic violence to women, with scenes of torture and rape […]
Secrets can kill you
Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future. Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them. This is book eight in the Will Trent series by Ms Slaughter, which I didn’t know when I picked it up at the library and no idea it was such until I was done and looking it up on Amazon. Even so, I had no trouble following the story (though some reviews on Goodreads indicate that you shouldn’t start with this book); it seemed a self […]
Team Lena, Y’all
In the first few pages of the book, one of the characters faces two armed home intruders and manages to kill one and incapacitate the other with a hammer. In her underwear. Ladies and gentelemen, meet Lena Adams, professional tough cookie, habitual fuck-up, sourpuss extraordinaire. Also: yes, Slaughter is the author’s real name and yes, it’s that kind of book. Unseen is the seventh installment of Slaughter’s Will Trent series, and it shows; there is a lot of backstory between the main characters, and though […]
I reject your heroine and substitute my own, part II: the ginger mollusc
I really like Karin Slaughter. I’m not generally a thriller reader, but I make an exception for her books. Every year, I eagerly await her next novel, whether it’s a standalone or a new instalment of her series. She has a nice turn of phrase and her work, especially the earlier stuff, has traces of southern gothic running through it. She’s no Faulkner but hell, if I wanted Faulkner I’d read Faulkner. I read Slaughter because it’s fun. Gory, gruesome, over-the-top fun. Cop Town was […]
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