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A review by natalie_and_company
They Never Learn by Layne Fargo
5.0
This book is a delicious guilty pleasure. Guilty in the way that you know that what is happening in the book is "wrong" but damn it feels so... right. Every moment of suspense, every revelation kept me reading. Thriller as a genre is so often over saturated with the male gaze, the male police detective, the mysteriously handsome private investigator. Men have been writing graphic tales of fiction for so long, most likely because this subject matter was deemed too violent for the average women and horror and terror amassed in the literary form. So reading Layne Fargo flip that entire script on its head, and provide a thriller so entirely feminine is delectable.
They Never Learn is a fascinating perspective on what a thriller might look like if these "male-leaning" traits such as... murder and deception (lol) were given to a women. What a women might do given the chance to take back power from those who abuse it in a major way. Its almost an academic commentary with how well the situation of our main character is written into the college campus she originates from. This book was so thoroughly enjoyable from beginning to end. Each thread of the story woven in a particular fashion so eventually the very reader themselves is caught up in the web of death, justice, and morality.
They Never Learn is a fascinating perspective on what a thriller might look like if these "male-leaning" traits such as... murder and deception (lol) were given to a women. What a women might do given the chance to take back power from those who abuse it in a major way. Its almost an academic commentary with how well the situation of our main character is written into the college campus she originates from. This book was so thoroughly enjoyable from beginning to end. Each thread of the story woven in a particular fashion so eventually the very reader themselves is caught up in the web of death, justice, and morality.