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Love doesn’t keep you in a constant state of turmoil. It gives you peace.

Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter

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I stumbled upon Cop Town by Karin Slaughter about five years ago and really enjoyed it–much more than I was expecting. So, when I saw one of Slaughter’s latest books, Pieces of Her (2018), out on book shelves, I put it on hold at the library. Like Cop Town, Pieces of Her is a page-turning fest of violence and intrigue. I think I read it in about one day, and I had a hard time putting it down. However, I still prefer Cop Town, which felt a little more realistic and was more immediately relevant to my life. Andrea (Andy) Oliver is a 31-year-old 911-dispatcher who lives with […]

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8/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:30 |

A Supremacy of Dunces

The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter

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Here’s my problem with The Last Widow: I wish I could say it was implausible and over the top, and ten years ago it would have been, but unfortunately, it’s not, and that makes it a scary and gripping read, but not a particularly comforting one. There’s nothing in this book that hasn’t happened before, and it’s going to happen again, sooner rather than later. We all know it. Karin Slaughter certainly does; there is a bleak and cynical current that flows through this book; no heroism, but an accurate sense of doom. On a hot summer’s day in Atlanta, […]

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6/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

My original title for this review was “Getting Blingy With It” and I feel like I deserve an award for that or possibly a slap in the face

Cleaning the Gold by Karin Slaughter and Lee Child

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GBI Agent Will Trent is working on a cold case: the murder of a sherrif’s deputy in a small Georgia town, twenty-odd years earlier. His most recent lead sends him undercover at Fort Knox, where his alias Jack Phineas Wolfe (no, really), army dropout, is hired to clean the gold. No, that’s what he’s hired to do. For real. Polish gold bars. This is not a euphemism; he’s inside a room with his suspect, polishing bars and getting sweaty. The suspect, by the way, is Jack Reacher, professional plot device. Will Trent has not seen the Tom Cruise movies so […]

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5/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

Review roundup! Female-centric thillers

Into the Water; The Lying Game; The Good Daughter; After Anna; Then She Was Gone; Dark Places by Paula Hawkins; Ruth Ware; Karin Slaughter; Alex Lake; Lisa Jewell; Gillian Flynn

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I badly need to catch up with writing reviews, but don’t really have the inclination to write long and individual reviews for books that were mostly ‘meh’. I sometimes pick up thrillers when I need a break from fantasy, and this review covers several that I’ve read since the early summer, in order that I read them. In some cases I have to cast my mind back rather a long way–and some definitely made an impression more than others. Most of these I read pretty quickly and moved on just as quickly. I’ve refreshed my memory when needed with Wikipedia […]

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12/13/2018 's CBR10 Review No:42 |

Pretty fucked up

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

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I downloaded the novella Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes from Overdrive a few weeks ago waiting for its follow up novel Pretty Girls. At the time I found it to be a bit unnecessary; having read the novel I find it completely unnecessary. “You couldn’t turn on the TV without hearing about the missing teenage girl. Sixteen years old. White. Middle class. Very pretty. No one ever seemed quite as outraged when an ugly woman went missing.” First of all, I started this as an audio-book and just could not listen to the graphic descriptions on my ride to work so I managed to get […]

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2/17/2018 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

Frivolous Filler

Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes: a short story by Karin Slaughter

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I enjoyed Karin Slaughter’s The Good Daughter so checked out ‘Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes’ on Overdrive as a precursor to my reading Pretty Girls (I have been hovering on the top of the library wait-list for weeks, wth PPL!) even though the reviews indicated it was a pretty unnecessary prequel. While I haven’t read Pretty Girls (yet) I can see why the general consensus was … why? Julia Carroll is a (VERY) pretty girl attending school to be a journalist in Athens, Georgia; a news story about a missing girl catches her attention because she reminds Julia of herself. Julia, who is very pretty, is also considering […]

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1/21/2018 's CBR10 Review No:10 |

“I’ve got to figure out before I die whether I want to be happy or I want to be right.”

The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter

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Somehow, despite an oeuvre of over a dozen books, I have never read a Karin Slaughter novel. I suspect this will change as CBR10 progresses as The Good Daughter was a gripping read with a quality twist ending. Charlie and Sam Quinn’s mother was murdered by two men who broke into their home in hopes of robbing their father. When their father, Rusty, was nowhere to be found the pair of deviants killed the girls’ mother, Gamma, and shot Sam in the head while Charlie ran for help and safety. Sam was buried alive but survived and now, 28 years later, the […]

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1/5/2018 's CBR10 Review No:2 |

Women are always the strong ones. [gratuitous David Tennant]

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

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“You couldn’t turn on the TV without hearing about the missing teenage girl. Sixteen years old. White. Middle class. Very pretty. No one ever seemed quite as outraged when an ugly woman went missing.” I will admit I was not immediately into this book. It opens from the point of view of a father writing to his dead daughter which was a bit overly emotional to me. Then cut to one insufferable woman who hates on the other mother’s at her daughter’s basketball game all while munching down on junk food. Cut to other woman whose life is perfect (except […]

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9/10/2017 's CBR9 Review No:29 |


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