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Забытая девушка by Karin Slaughter

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dark emotional lighthearted mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I figured it out about half way through. Almost didn’t finish the book because of the sexual abuse but definitely an interesting read

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes

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Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I listened to this on audio and was so frustrated every time I had to stop. I just wanted to listen to all 16 hours in one sitting. I had no idea which way the story was going and it kept me guessing until the end. Karin Slaughter is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors and I can’t wait to read more from her. 

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Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was fine. I literally remembered next to nothing about the first book, which I don’t think you really need to. The mystery of this was honestly whatever, I didn’t love the dual timeline. The characters were ok, like they were funny at times, but I’ll never remember any of this. My favorite part was the romance which was like two scenes lol. Idk if you liked the first you’ll probably like this, but this isn’t anything special. This author has better books in my opinion. 

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Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
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adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Karin Slaughter can be a little bit hit and miss for me, but this one kept me engaged and intrigued from beginning to end. It's nowhere near as gory as her usual fare either, as she is well known for in-depth and graphic details of murders, tortures and abuses. This absolutely has the murder, but there aren't many graphic details at all and there's none of the frequently found escalation into torture horror.

Emily was only 17 when she was attacked and left for dead whilst heavily pregnant. Nobody knew who the father was, perhaps not even Emily herself. Or so it seemed. Yet someone had motive enough to kill her. Some forty years later, Andrea is sent to the scene under the guise of protecting the dead girl's grandmother from death threats. In reality, if she can prove her own father killed the girl all those years go, she will be able to prevent him leaving prison and ever threatening them again. But it's a forty year cold case. Information was slim on the ground then and it isn't going to be any easier now.

It's a well written thriller that has several competing narrative lines, with all of them being interesting and competing for Andrea's attention. In between we get interludes from four decades ago from Emily's perspective, bringing additional detail to the old case but no real answers. The juxtaposition between present and past is done well, and the chapters from Emily help bring the forty years older adults into perspective, highlighting their personalities as Emily knew them. The characters all felt real, although many of them are certainly not people you'd want to get to know well.

So, a strong and relatively tame Karin Slaughter novel. There's apparently an initial thriller looking in more detail at Andrea's background and her father. That's now also on my to-read list! 

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Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Never have a met a cast of more genuinely awful human beings. Just terrible. 

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