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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Spoilers: I was annoyed with the Lena/Jeffrey conflict. Lena was the most frustrating character throughout the whole book. The storyline with Chuck didn’t seem to be resolved and how did Lena become attached to Ethan after hanging out with him one time? Not my favorite in the series.
“Lena is a person who survives rather than lives her life — you could say she is dead and she doesn’t know it.”
Karin Slaughter is doing this again to me. She depicts one very long panic attack through a whole novel where all characters are barely hanging in there in the midst of some gnarly violent crimes. Everyone is messed up, everyone has a past, baggage and trauma, everyone is a human being that is broken but still continues somehow. Both criminals and cops don’t have their shit together which is very cathartic for me as a person that suffers from chronic anxiety. And catharsis is good.
I never considered crime mystery novels to be anything more than a cheap trill. Then Karin Slaughter started writing.
Karin Slaughter is doing this again to me. She depicts one very long panic attack through a whole novel where all characters are barely hanging in there in the midst of some gnarly violent crimes. Everyone is messed up, everyone has a past, baggage and trauma, everyone is a human being that is broken but still continues somehow. Both criminals and cops don’t have their shit together which is very cathartic for me as a person that suffers from chronic anxiety. And catharsis is good.
I never considered crime mystery novels to be anything more than a cheap trill. Then Karin Slaughter started writing.
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
emotional
mysterious
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:
Yes
dark
sad
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No