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Kisscut
by Karin Slaughter
3.5 stars
*This book has literal content warnings for everything. If you are a sensitive reader, I would not recommend.
CW: Child abuse, paedophilia, child pornography, FGM, child mutilation
In the second book in the Grant County series, a date night for Sara and Jeffrey turns deadly when a shooting leaves a 13-year-old dead. Further investigation uncovers a recurring crime beyond Jeffrey's worst imaginings..
This books is dark af and I cannot stress that enough. I think of myself as a very tough reader and I'm generally okay with reading dark and gruesome things (unless it's animal torture - that's my line) but this had me really shocked and repulsed in parts.
I liked the investigation in this though I don't think I was left feeling overall satisfied with what happened in the same way as I was with Blindsighted. We see some character development between Jeffrey and Sara in this book - particularly with their relationship (though I have to say I found it a little weird the jumps from the investigation into child pornography and then the two of them rekindling their sexual intimacy, WEIRD).
I hate to say it but I really do not like Lena as a character. She's someone who is obviously deadly with a HUGE amount of trauma following the first book, as well as grief for her sister who died but she was just plain nasty at times in Kisscut and she is quite blatantly homphobic at times which I wonder if it will be challenged at some point in a later book.
*This book has literal content warnings for everything. If you are a sensitive reader, I would not recommend.
CW: Child abuse, paedophilia, child pornography, FGM, child mutilation
In the second book in the Grant County series, a date night for Sara and Jeffrey turns deadly when a shooting leaves a 13-year-old dead. Further investigation uncovers a recurring crime beyond Jeffrey's worst imaginings..
This books is dark af and I cannot stress that enough. I think of myself as a very tough reader and I'm generally okay with reading dark and gruesome things (unless it's animal torture - that's my line) but this had me really shocked and repulsed in parts.
I liked the investigation in this though I don't think I was left feeling overall satisfied with what happened in the same way as I was with Blindsighted. We see some character development between Jeffrey and Sara in this book - particularly with their relationship (though I have to say I found it a little weird the jumps from the investigation into child pornography and then the two of them rekindling their sexual intimacy, WEIRD).
I hate to say it but I really do not like Lena as a character. She's someone who is obviously deadly with a HUGE amount of trauma following the first book, as well as grief for her sister who died but she was just plain nasty at times in Kisscut and she is quite blatantly homphobic at times which I wonder if it will be challenged at some point in a later book.