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Excellent thriller about a serial killer who uses time travel to find and then follow "shining" young girls over decades of time, finally gruesomely killing them and then escaping detection through the use of the time travel. Things start to unravel though when one of the shining girls manages to survive her savage attack. It is sometimes hard to read and keep straight in your mind a story with time travel and it must be even harder to write it. Beukes does a good job of it though, keeping the n
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Starts off very strong but degenerates, to my mind, a little over half-way through. It begins to read a bit Dan Brown-ish (ultra short chapters) and was a bit too descriptive in its violence for my taste. Ms. Beukes leaves a lot of interesting bits of her story by the wayside (Why do these girls shine? How does this House work? Why Harper and not anyone else?) in favor of the slashiness, which is just not my cup of tea.
A clever serial killer thriller with a great twist, although I thought the killer could have a bit more character development. He's effectively creepy though
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Fascinating time-travel thriller. Characters are well-developed and interesting, and the mystery ... although it's not really that, since you know who the killer is from the early pages ... keeps the plot moving forward quickly. This is the first book in a while I've had trouble putting down.
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