Andrea Oliver returns in the follow-up to Karin Slaughter's hit novel (and Netflix mini-series), Pieces of Her.

📖 Now a rookie US Marshal, Andrea is assigned to Longbill Beach, her psychopathic father's hometown, to watch over Judge Esther Vaughn, a Reagan appointed Judge who has been receiving death threats. With a hidden agenda, Andrea starts to investigate the 40-year-old unsolved murder of the Judge's teenage daughter, Emily Vaughn in hopes of finding a connection to her father and using it as a cause to protest his upcoming parole hearing.

Thoughts :💭
Told across dual timelines and perspectives, I became engrossed in Emilys chapters. Warning: There are a lot of hard-hitting themes in this book, so be prepared to feel enraged over the utterly depraved treatment of Emily Vaughn.

Karin is an expert at taking sensitive topics and stripping them down to their cold and brutal reality. It's one of the reasons I love her writing so much, it's gritty intense and confronting, yet you just can't look away.

Girl Forgotten is book 2 in the Andrea Oliver series and while having read or at least watched Pieces of Her will provide context to Andrea's backstory and some of the people in her life, it can be read and enjoyed as a standalone.

I am a sucker for anything cult themed, so the present-day chapters were a guilty pleasure for me. Filled with shady characters and buried secrets, all the pieces of the past clicked together to deliver a satisfying conclusion.

Thank you to the team at @tandemcollectiveglobal for hosting another fun & interactive #tandemreadalong and to @harpercollinsaustralia for #gifting me a copy of Girl, Forgotten.