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A review by ladybugwrites
The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
It's been a while since I last read a Karin Slaughter book (and I have only ever read one other). I do wonder if these books would be better if I read the series in chronological order, but idk and it doesn't matter. They're still relatively well-written and exciting books.
And like every other crime novel, this fits exactly what it's trying to be. It has an intriguing plot of murder, there's relations, there's the specific intrigue with our main character and bla bla bla. It does a lot of things very well, and I had a good time.
However, it is fucking detail oriented. I think you could get the same story out of this book in 200 less pages if you just, drop a few of the details. I get that a lot of it is important, but some 100 pages worth of details aren't. I assure you. And a few pages was just a complete repeat of something I'd already read just with a few added pieces of information and names you're not supposed to know which I thought was just boring and kinda lazy. I didn't need it.
And in the end, well, I really just wanted the book to end. I didn't really care that much anymore. To some degree, the edning also felt a little lazy but it wasn't bad. I liked the overall story, I just don't think I liked it as much as the other one I read or I might just have different tastes after it's been possibly almost 10 years since I read the last one. Hard to tell.
And like every other crime novel, this fits exactly what it's trying to be. It has an intriguing plot of murder, there's relations, there's the specific intrigue with our main character and bla bla bla. It does a lot of things very well, and I had a good time.
However, it is fucking detail oriented. I think you could get the same story out of this book in 200 less pages if you just, drop a few of the details. I get that a lot of it is important, but some 100 pages worth of details aren't. I assure you. And a few pages was just a complete repeat of something I'd already read just with a few added pieces of information and names you're not supposed to know which I thought was just boring and kinda lazy. I didn't need it.
And in the end, well, I really just wanted the book to end. I didn't really care that much anymore. To some degree, the edning also felt a little lazy but it wasn't bad. I liked the overall story, I just don't think I liked it as much as the other one I read or I might just have different tastes after it's been possibly almost 10 years since I read the last one. Hard to tell.