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A review by erikbergstrom
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
2.0
The Shining Girls you say... must not be any of the girls that I'VE dated!!! Lol.
Who are The Shining Girls?
For real... can someone answer that please? I never really got a good indication from this novel that's titled The Shining Girls for pete's sake.
I will commend author Lauren Beukes for her level of research and the attempts at keeping historical anomalies to a minimum. However, for basic things like character, plot, setting... you know, the stuff they teach storywriters in like 5th grade... it's just too minimal.
As indicated above, I have NO idea who these Shining Girls are, why they shine, what the shining means, why this guy has to kill them because they shine, nunavit! And about that killer... it's bad enough when writers give you access to them (outside of Thomas Harris) but this killer is very weak even by my low standards.
The time-jumping... I guess it was necessary to the story, so why wasn't it done more carefully? So much confuse! Too much perspective hopping. What was happening when and where and to whom with which objects... Never got my dum head around it.
I'm sad this story flopped. The premise was very intriguing to me, and author Lauren Beukes seems like a capable enough writer to have handled it. The people she listed in her 5 page acknowledgments section must've really let her down.
Who are The Shining Girls?
For real... can someone answer that please? I never really got a good indication from this novel that's titled The Shining Girls for pete's sake.
I will commend author Lauren Beukes for her level of research and the attempts at keeping historical anomalies to a minimum. However, for basic things like character, plot, setting... you know, the stuff they teach storywriters in like 5th grade... it's just too minimal.
As indicated above, I have NO idea who these Shining Girls are, why they shine, what the shining means, why this guy has to kill them because they shine, nunavit! And about that killer... it's bad enough when writers give you access to them (outside of Thomas Harris) but this killer is very weak even by my low standards.
The time-jumping... I guess it was necessary to the story, so why wasn't it done more carefully? So much confuse! Too much perspective hopping. What was happening when and where and to whom with which objects... Never got my dum head around it.
I'm sad this story flopped. The premise was very intriguing to me, and author Lauren Beukes seems like a capable enough writer to have handled it. The people she listed in her 5 page acknowledgments section must've really let her down.