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Pretty Girls

Karin Slaughter

3.96 AVERAGE

dark emotional tense
dark tense slow-paced
challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

I wanted to like this book so bad. I’ve been reading it through Libby and had to renew it because I was holding out hope it would get better. But it didn’t. It was repetitive, Lydia was the only semi likeable character, and it went on for too long. I think it had potential but it just lost my interest at so many points throughout. I’ve been trying to dive deeper into thriller/horror, too, but explicit descriptions of female torture that are just torture p*rn? Not really for me
challenging dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

3.5.

Unnecessarily long. A very dark read. Not for the faint hearted
dark emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Was not expecting so much gore, reminded me of girl with the dragon tattoo type scenes. Overall, good fall read.
dark tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I loved this book.  I'm someone that loves thrillers, mysteries,  dark.  But,  even though I loved it,  it was very hard to read because of the crimes descriptions.