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A review by erickibler4
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
3.0
A young woman seeks to turn the tables on a time traveling serial killer who nearly ended her life. What the book gains in its inventive non-linear approach to storytelling, it loses somewhat in suspense.
Beukes is South African, and does a pretty good job at setting the scene in Chicago from 1929 to 1993. Certain words, such as "punter" and "spanner" are occasionally put into the mouths of Chicagoans, which took me momentarily out of the story, but I liked that when comic book appeared in the story, they were time-appropriate and pretty good selections for what would have been available at the time.
Three stars is by no means a bad review coming from me. I liked it. But it's a couple notches down from outright love.
Beukes is South African, and does a pretty good job at setting the scene in Chicago from 1929 to 1993. Certain words, such as "punter" and "spanner" are occasionally put into the mouths of Chicagoans, which took me momentarily out of the story, but I liked that when comic book appeared in the story, they were time-appropriate and pretty good selections for what would have been available at the time.
Three stars is by no means a bad review coming from me. I liked it. But it's a couple notches down from outright love.