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A review by merith28
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
3.0
CONTAINS SPOILERS.
I enjoyed this book (as much as one can enjoy a book about a serial killer), but it left me wanting to know more. Such as, why were the girls "shining"? Was the killer snuffing out each woman's potential? Why women specifically?
That, and admittedly I have a hard time when time travel is involved. Not because I find it hard to believe—I actually enjoy entertaining the idea of time travel, but because I get caught up with how it affects future (and in this case, past) events. Notably, how did Harper not see his dead, and presumably incinerated self at the beginning? And wouldn't the house have burned down—or suffered considerable damage—in 1932 and negated all of Harper's past actions? Agh! So many questions.
I enjoyed this book (as much as one can enjoy a book about a serial killer), but it left me wanting to know more. Such as, why were the girls "shining"? Was the killer snuffing out each woman's potential? Why women specifically?
That, and admittedly I have a hard time when time travel is involved. Not because I find it hard to believe—I actually enjoy entertaining the idea of time travel, but because I get caught up with how it affects future (and in this case, past) events. Notably, how did Harper not see his dead, and presumably incinerated self at the beginning? And wouldn't the house have burned down—or suffered considerable damage—in 1932 and negated all of Harper's past actions? Agh! So many questions.