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A review by thekrazysheep
Lamb to the Slaughter by Karen Ann Hopkins
3.0
I didn't like the back and forth pov between the current characters and I found Daniel especially annoying. The "romantic" scenes were written in the terms of bad romance novel tropes.
Not sure I buy that the Amish are much like they're portrayed in the novel, seemed like the majority of the Amish adult women were either abusive or had a mental illness, or both. The teenagers weren't much better. The Amish men were portrayed as stoic, close minded, and a bizarre combination of ignorant to the behavior of their wives and "all knowing" when it came to what their children were up to. Right up until the end, of course when they were all "surprised" by who the actual killer was. I'll give the author this, she did not reduce them to the tropes of the "peaceful Amish". However I think the author went too far the other way.
Overall, not a horrible book (I've read far worse) but be sure to skim over the "romantic" bits and just pretend you're not reading about an actual culture that exists and is being portrayed incorrectly.
Not sure I buy that the Amish are much like they're portrayed in the novel, seemed like the majority of the Amish adult women were either abusive or had a mental illness, or both. The teenagers weren't much better. The Amish men were portrayed as stoic, close minded, and a bizarre combination of ignorant to the behavior of their wives and "all knowing" when it came to what their children were up to. Right up until the end, of course when they were all "surprised" by who the actual killer was. I'll give the author this, she did not reduce them to the tropes of the "peaceful Amish". However I think the author went too far the other way.
Overall, not a horrible book (I've read far worse) but be sure to skim over the "romantic" bits and just pretend you're not reading about an actual culture that exists and is being portrayed incorrectly.