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kellycoburn37 's review for:
Girl A
by Abigail Dean
I think it should be known that I am usually incapable of predicting twists in books. It very rarely happens that I figure out what’s going to happen before it does. Maybe that’s my stupid showing through but it’s true. This book, however, I actually saw the twist coming (even if it took me more than half of the book to make my prediction...but who’s keeping track?). Me seeing it coming however, didn’t diminish the book for me.
I love an unreliable narrator and from the beginning, you know that there is something beneath the surface. The main character has gone through some serious trauma and this book does a really good job at exploring that. Parts of it felt like a true crime podcast almost and I really liked (?) learning about the House of Horrors and the family’s dynamic bit by bit. This book really makes you feel for the characters and think about real children who are in situations similar to this one.
There were some things that bothered me about this book. I didn’t like the actual structure of a lot of her sentences which is weird because I very rarely ever notice things like that. I didn’t like how the dialogue was broken up and I couldn’t stop noticing it. I also wish that it had ended a little differently. I wanted more.
Overall, I would definitely read more books from Abigail Dean. I thought it was a good debut novel!
I love an unreliable narrator and from the beginning, you know that there is something beneath the surface. The main character has gone through some serious trauma and this book does a really good job at exploring that. Parts of it felt like a true crime podcast almost and I really liked (?) learning about the House of Horrors and the family’s dynamic bit by bit. This book really makes you feel for the characters and think about real children who are in situations similar to this one.
There were some things that bothered me about this book. I didn’t like the actual structure of a lot of her sentences which is weird because I very rarely ever notice things like that. I didn’t like how the dialogue was broken up and I couldn’t stop noticing it. I also wish that it had ended a little differently. I wanted more.
Overall, I would definitely read more books from Abigail Dean. I thought it was a good debut novel!