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Cop Town
by Karin Slaughter
Straddled the line between "you go, girl!" and "fuck this bullshit, I'm out." Women cops in '70s Atlanta try to prove themselves despite their male peers' objections (which are disgusting, disturbing, hateful, and number in the millions -- thus the "fuck this bullshit" option: who would put up with that?!) and solve a case of a serial killer targeting cops.
This is just your standard fish-outta-water story, but to the nth degree and patently absurd. Why would a poor little rich girl join the cops, and why would she tough it out? Oh yeah, and all of this is supposed to be happening in her first week on the job. Sure, your terrifying first week as a cop in hell-hole Atlanta, and yet you still somehow have the time and energy after work to conduct a steamy little tryst? There were a few nice little twists, but nothing that mattered to the meat of the story, and the ending was inconsequential.
Karin Slaughter tried to address the duality of human nature once or twice (your standard "how can good people do bad things," and vice versa), but this book is no place for philosophical musings, especially when they're obviously couched to hide the fact that her characters were inconsistent and unbelievable.
This is just your standard fish-outta-water story, but to the nth degree and patently absurd. Why would a poor little rich girl join the cops, and why would she tough it out? Oh yeah, and all of this is supposed to be happening in her first week on the job. Sure, your terrifying first week as a cop in hell-hole Atlanta, and yet you still somehow have the time and energy after work to conduct a steamy little tryst? There were a few nice little twists, but nothing that mattered to the meat of the story, and the ending was inconsequential.
Karin Slaughter tried to address the duality of human nature once or twice (your standard "how can good people do bad things," and vice versa), but this book is no place for philosophical musings, especially when they're obviously couched to hide the fact that her characters were inconsistent and unbelievable.