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A review by obsidian_blue
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
4.0
Great thriller.
Please note this book came out in 2015, but was re-released recently. I downloaded it for free via Amazon Kindle and didn't realize this was connected to an earlier short story that Slaughter put out many years before called [b:Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes|25613362|Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes|Karin Slaughter|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1435111090l/25613362._SY75_.jpg|45424637]
Parts of this book feel a little ridiculous because there's just so many coincidences , one after another. But I couldn't put it down and I really enjoyed it.
Full review:
I will say that this book takes til about the 30 percent mark to get going. At first, I didn't get the connections of the characters in this one and I almost put it down. No spoilers, but things come together and you figure out who everyone is and why Slaughter set up the book the way she did.
"Pretty Girls" follows single mother Lydia who is dealing with her young daughter Dee ready to move out of the house and go to college. Lydia though fears her daughter leaving.
Clare, is happily married to her husband Paul when the unthinkable happens and Paul is killed.
We also get letters that a man we know is a missing girl's father writes to explaining what happened to their family after she disappeared.
The book seesaws back and forth between the letters, and Clare and Lydia's points of view. This all coincides with a missing Atlanta teen which sparks bad memories for both women.
Things come tumbling down though on what happened 20 plus years ago to them both and what is recently going on in Atlanta.
I have to say, that at first I didn't care for Clare, but she grew on me. I loved Lydia from the beginning to the end.
The writing was rough at first because I didn't read the short story so felt so far behind about things. The book sets it up as if you read that story first. And the flow was pretty bad.
The biggest reason why I knocked this down some was that the whole criminal conspiracy and coincidences started to feel fake after a while to me. I was like, okay then. I kept reading, but it took me out of things a bit. That said, I really loved the ending and thought it was bonkers, but good.
Please note this book came out in 2015, but was re-released recently. I downloaded it for free via Amazon Kindle and didn't realize this was connected to an earlier short story that Slaughter put out many years before called [b:Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes|25613362|Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes|Karin Slaughter|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1435111090l/25613362._SY75_.jpg|45424637]
Parts of this book feel a little ridiculous because there's just so many coincidences , one after another. But I couldn't put it down and I really enjoyed it.
Full review:
I will say that this book takes til about the 30 percent mark to get going. At first, I didn't get the connections of the characters in this one and I almost put it down. No spoilers, but things come together and you figure out who everyone is and why Slaughter set up the book the way she did.
"Pretty Girls" follows single mother Lydia who is dealing with her young daughter Dee ready to move out of the house and go to college. Lydia though fears her daughter leaving.
Clare, is happily married to her husband Paul when the unthinkable happens and Paul is killed.
We also get letters that a man we know is a missing girl's father writes to explaining what happened to their family after she disappeared.
The book seesaws back and forth between the letters, and Clare and Lydia's points of view. This all coincides with a missing Atlanta teen which sparks bad memories for both women.
Things come tumbling down though on what happened 20 plus years ago to them both and what is recently going on in Atlanta.
I have to say, that at first I didn't care for Clare, but she grew on me. I loved Lydia from the beginning to the end.
The writing was rough at first because I didn't read the short story so felt so far behind about things. The book sets it up as if you read that story first. And the flow was pretty bad.
The biggest reason why I knocked this down some was that the whole criminal conspiracy and coincidences started to feel fake after a while to me. I was like, okay then. I kept reading, but it took me out of things a bit. That said, I really loved the ending and thought it was bonkers, but good.