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librariann 's review for:
Girl A
by Abigail Dean
**I received an advance copy from the publisher because I am a librarian and librarians are awesome**
One of those pseudo-ripped-from-the-headlines books that I just cannot ignore when I come across it. It's got that mix of torture-porn (not actual porn) and semi-unreliable narrator that is tres chic in suspense titles today.
A quibble - there was enough inconsistency in the section headings and narrator's accounting of the number of siblings that I actually thought that perhaps this ARC was much rougher than most and that a sibling had been edited out at some point in the story -
Regardless, this is a page turner, if you like back and forth stories of survivors and the horrific abuse they suffered as children. But it was no Room, which is the standard that I hold all captive children books to.
One of those pseudo-ripped-from-the-headlines books that I just cannot ignore when I come across it. It's got that mix of torture-porn (not actual porn) and semi-unreliable narrator that is tres chic in suspense titles today.
A quibble - there was enough inconsistency in the section headings and narrator's accounting of the number of siblings that I actually thought that perhaps this ARC was much rougher than most and that a sibling had been edited out at some point in the story -
Spoiler
but it turned out, no, that "missing" sibling was a part of the sad secret.Regardless, this is a page turner, if you like back and forth stories of survivors and the horrific abuse they suffered as children. But it was no Room, which is the standard that I hold all captive children books to.