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the_magpie_reader 's review for:
Nothing Can Hurt You
by Nicola Maye Goldberg
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review. It is currently set to be published in June 2020.
More than a true crime story, more than a thriller or a whodunit, this book is a choral novel offering some insight into the lives of so many different women and men who are all at varying degrees touched by a single act of senseless violence--the murder of young Sara by her boyfriend, who is later declared not guilty by reason of insanity.
If you're looking for the umpteenth thriller about a femicide investigation, you're going to be disappointed. There's not much of an investigation happening in this book, and it doesn't even fit properly into the "thriller" box, although this seems to be the closest genre label that can be used for it.
If you're looking for something totally different from anything you might have read before - for a clear, slow-paced but relentless reflection on gender-based violence in our modern society - then this is the book for you.
Each character in this book - and there are a lot! - is going to take you by the hand and lead you to her or his experience of violence, and in each chapter you will conquer one more little piece of this complex, multifaceted thing we call truth.
You will approach the ending thinking you know where this is going, but trust me, you don't.
The last chapter will hit you like the most surprising twist yet, unmasking the pervasiveness and normalization of gender-based violence in our culture.
More than a true crime story, more than a thriller or a whodunit, this book is a choral novel offering some insight into the lives of so many different women and men who are all at varying degrees touched by a single act of senseless violence--the murder of young Sara by her boyfriend, who is later declared not guilty by reason of insanity.
If you're looking for the umpteenth thriller about a femicide investigation, you're going to be disappointed. There's not much of an investigation happening in this book, and it doesn't even fit properly into the "thriller" box, although this seems to be the closest genre label that can be used for it.
If you're looking for something totally different from anything you might have read before - for a clear, slow-paced but relentless reflection on gender-based violence in our modern society - then this is the book for you.
Each character in this book - and there are a lot! - is going to take you by the hand and lead you to her or his experience of violence, and in each chapter you will conquer one more little piece of this complex, multifaceted thing we call truth.
You will approach the ending thinking you know where this is going, but trust me, you don't.
The last chapter will hit you like the most surprising twist yet, unmasking the pervasiveness and normalization of gender-based violence in our culture.