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Pretty Girls: A Novel

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Karin Slaughter's Pretty Girls asks all of the questions and then answers them in the creepiest way I can imagine. It's been a while since I laid in bed at night hoping that what I had just read doesn't give me nightmares, but this one had me doing just that. Add that on top of the fact that I absolutely couldn't put this book down, and we've got a real winner on our hands. Join us on Monday, August, 13 for a special discussion with internationally bestselling author, Karin Slaughter. Karin will be discussing her work, in Join us on Monday, August, 13 for a special discussion with internationally bestselling author, Karin Slaughter. Karin will be discussing her work, including her most recent book Criminal (Will Trent #6). The book starts with a fast pace then in between it got a little boring or tiring just a little bit because maybe it was too long to read.

Join us on Tuesday, April 22nd, for a special discussion with authorEmma Donoghue ! The author will be discussing her book Frog Music. Slaughter is the founder of the Save the Libraries project-a nonprofit organisation established to support libraries and library programming. Okay. WARNING: this book is graphically violent. It's very similar in to Criminal Minds or CSI in terms of the level if you want a comparison point. I love this author. I fangirl so hard over her Grant County/Will Trent books so much that if I go anywhere that has them I must be restrained from recommending that people read them. Yes, Library ladies I will try and behave. A hell-raising thriller…a genuinely exciting narrative driven by strong-willed female characters who can’t wait around until the boys shake the lead out of their shoes.”Karin Slaughter is at the top of her game with this book. She continues to have great character development, characters you root for, characters you despise and those that are right in the middle. She does her research and her plots are multilayered and engaging. I could not put this one down! There are many triggering things don’t read this one if you if you’re sensitive to certain things. Either you should not read this or think thrice before reading this as there are gore descriptions of some triggering crimes. A lot of people like that sort of thing, but I personally felt overwhelmed beginning around the 30% mark, and it didn't really let up until the end. I didn't have a problem with the violence until that point, but then it just got to be too much, especially because the nature of the brutality toward the rape and murder victims is extremely unsettling. And when the book isn’t showing women being tortured, raped, murdered and cut up into little pieces, it’s actually kind of boring.

Offering a bit of further discomfort, after reading this book you might find some of these listens a bit disturbing

Authors are always asked where they get their ideas, and the truth is that most of the time we don't know. An idea is a weird thing--usually, it's like a grain of sand that your brain worries into a pearl. When did the sand start to turn into something shiny and beautiful? No way to know. I’ve always been fascinated by cults. It probably originated with two of the seminal books of my childhood—HELTER SKELTER, by Vincent Bugliosi and THE STRANGER BESIDE ME, by Ann Rule. HELTER SKELTER is about Charles Manson, and he obviously led a bona fide cult in the way we Claire - although a seemingly high-maintenance doormat, we learn, soon enough, that she has teeth! I was left wondering throughout the majority of the story - who could she trust? I understand it's a thriller and it was to show just how much of a monster certain characters were but it's rare that I have to skip so much or put down a book because I'm so horrified. In my opinion gruesome violence overkill. At the same time the authors ability to describe other things and situations so well kept me intrigued as to what was going to happen next. At certain parts I was literally holding my breath as things were unfolding. Just like watching a horror movie and yelling "don't go in there" to the person on the screen I wanted to yell similar things at Claire and Lydia. Starred Review. Slaughter ( Cop Town, 2014, etc.) is so uncompromising in following her blood trails to the darkest places imaginable that she makes most of her high-wire competition look pallid, formulaic, or just plain fake" - Kirkus

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