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I was hesitant to take on a 600+ page book but it drew me in. I liked how it was character-driven and I had food for thought on the death penalty and having children. I deducted a star because I had to skip through the too-graphic scenes.
Oooh... I didn't expect to enjoy this book so much. This is actually my first time reading Karin Slaughter's book and I wasn't disappointed! This book is for those who love psychological thriller (ala Gillian Flynn), mixed with courtroom drama (ala John Grisham) and detailed police procedural- with enough family/sibling drama as well.
The writing is really good - even though this book is a bit too long, but it's pretty effective in building the plot (plus all the family history) and developing th ...more
The writing is really good - even though this book is a bit too long, but it's pretty effective in building the plot (plus all the family history) and developing th ...more
I really enjoyed this book. If you enjoy thrillers and not phases by extreme violence and unendingly frustrating situations and sad emotional turns, this one will not disappoint.
I kept thinking this was going to go in other directions, and it’s not the most satisfying in terms of what you’d like to see happen. The characters are compelling and the story is definitely one you need to have the answers to. At times I didn’t feel like the relationship between Sam and Charlie was realistic, or hone ...more
I kept thinking this was going to go in other directions, and it’s not the most satisfying in terms of what you’d like to see happen. The characters are compelling and the story is definitely one you need to have the answers to. At times I didn’t feel like the relationship between Sam and Charlie was realistic, or hone ...more
This was excellent. The characters felt so real that I started to lose my sense of reality and feel like I was actually part of the book. The pages flew by, this absolutely did not feel like a nearly 700 page book.
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Jan 31, 2018
Elizabeth Weltin
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