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A review by oh_the_ennui
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
2.0
I do not understand all the praise for this book. Overall, I found it to be one of the most disturbing and distressing books I have ever encountered (I listened to the audiobook version.) That being said, it is overall well written as it so vividly evokes terror and disgust. However, the fact that the husband was involved in all of the terrible things that happened in the family’s life seemed somewhat contrived. And the sections with the father’s diary seemed contrite and oddly even creepy, somewhat fetishized. In addition, the main character Claire seemed like a sad female trope with almost no agency.
I could not recommend this book to anyone as it seemed to me to serve only as a disturbing description of torture porn without much else. For whatever reason, I felt like the overarching plot actually only served as a secondary mechanism of disseminating the idea that humans can imagine horrible things to do to each other.
I could not recommend this book to anyone as it seemed to me to serve only as a disturbing description of torture porn without much else. For whatever reason, I felt like the overarching plot actually only served as a secondary mechanism of disseminating the idea that humans can imagine horrible things to do to each other.