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Girl A
by Abigail Dean
dark
tense
fast-paced
"Together, we sank into the sludge of time."
Lex goes from the nerdy, oldest girl in a family that starves their offspring and chains them to their beds, to the heroic girl that figures a way out and saves them all. But being "saved" is relative, and Lex slowly realizes that not all her siblings get the same happily ever after that she does.
Quick (maybe too quick) and packed full of generational disappointment and masculine bitterness, this one veers closer to 'My Dark Vanessa' in tone, if not content, than to other crime novels. I thought Dean held back in a lot of areas that many less thoughtful authors would have garishly dived into, which made this more readable. It absolutely reads like true-crime, so if you want that vibe without the prickly conscious of being entertained by real people's trauma, then this might be for you!
Read If:
- You come from a town made infamous by tragedy
- You like some grime
- You want trauma without the explicit sexual content that often comes with it
Lex goes from the nerdy, oldest girl in a family that starves their offspring and chains them to their beds, to the heroic girl that figures a way out and saves them all. But being "saved" is relative, and Lex slowly realizes that not all her siblings get the same happily ever after that she does.
Quick (maybe too quick) and packed full of generational disappointment and masculine bitterness, this one veers closer to 'My Dark Vanessa' in tone, if not content, than to other crime novels. I thought Dean held back in a lot of areas that many less thoughtful authors would have garishly dived into, which made this more readable. It absolutely reads like true-crime, so if you want that vibe without the prickly conscious of being entertained by real people's trauma, then this might be for you!
Read If:
- You come from a town made infamous by tragedy
- You like some grime
- You want trauma without the explicit sexual content that often comes with it
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse
Moderate: Child death