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Two books in to Megan Abbott territory and I think I'm in love. Her stuff feels comfortable, like an old friend is chatting away non-stop but instead of boyfriends and work and kids this friend is casually telling you about the guy she killed or how the Grande Dame of organised crime in your town has taken her under her wing, pulling no punches along the way in terms of explicit description of severed arteries and rough sex.
How can you not love that?
As I said after [b:Die a Little|8130464|Die a Little|Megan Abbott|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1328632796s/8130464.jpg|51119] recently, I couldn't help but flip page after page of the book, thrilled, engrossed and loving every second of it. She tells a great story, perfect for the genre, she gets the tone and pitch just right, knows how the conventions work inside and out and then slaps you in the face by subverting them. This is not a hard-boiled man, gun in hand, taken in by a quick-talking double-crossing dame but it's not quite the opposite either.
The unnamed narrator is already the type of character I have come to associate with Megan Abbott's work; a naieve woman who learns quickly, strong, attracted to the darker aspects of life and who enjoys rough, kinky sex. As with the male-centric traditions of the genre it is that most evil of sins, lust, that leads the protagonist astray, causing them to put everything on the line. But Megan Abbott writes these dames stronger than any man I remember reading with dialogue I could imagine Bogey reading to boot.
It's not quite 5* stuff but it sure is incredible and insanely enjoyable reading for what it is.
How can you not love that?
As I said after [b:Die a Little|8130464|Die a Little|Megan Abbott|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1328632796s/8130464.jpg|51119] recently, I couldn't help but flip page after page of the book, thrilled, engrossed and loving every second of it. She tells a great story, perfect for the genre, she gets the tone and pitch just right, knows how the conventions work inside and out and then slaps you in the face by subverting them. This is not a hard-boiled man, gun in hand, taken in by a quick-talking double-crossing dame but it's not quite the opposite either.
The unnamed narrator is already the type of character I have come to associate with Megan Abbott's work; a naieve woman who learns quickly, strong, attracted to the darker aspects of life and who enjoys rough, kinky sex. As with the male-centric traditions of the genre it is that most evil of sins, lust, that leads the protagonist astray, causing them to put everything on the line. But Megan Abbott writes these dames stronger than any man I remember reading with dialogue I could imagine Bogey reading to boot.
It's not quite 5* stuff but it sure is incredible and insanely enjoyable reading for what it is.