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A review by readingwitherin
Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia
5.0
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an e-arc in exchange for my honest review.
Trigger warning: attempted sexual assault, sex trafficking, kidnapping, racism,
When I say I loved this book. I mean I LOVED this book!
Louise Lloyd is my favorite mystery protagonist of this year so far.
Louise is a survivor of a kidnapping and because of that she is well known to a certain extent, but she just wants to live a normal slightly calm life. However, things don't work out like that for her sadly. Instead, she gets dragged into a murder investigation by a detective because of all the people she knows and how she can get into places that police and detectives cannot because of prohibition as well as keeping herself out of jail. So this leads her to have to not only deal with the police detective and his potential shadiness, but also a reporter that keeps sneaking around, and a murderer that she must stop to have her own freedom as well as protecting young girls from getting killed. This is a lot for anyone but Louise was able to juggle it all and was really really good at it. She figured out things that others didn't and caught onto things that were overlooked by the police and never stopped looking.
Now as for who actually was doing the killings, I was kind of shocked by it. For the majority of the last half of the book, I thought it was someone else. I like that I couldn't figure it out for once and that it took all the clues being put together for me to realize who did it. Ms. Afia, you did very well and I can't wait to read more books by you because this one got me for sure.
Overall I loved this book and could not read it fast enough. Louise is a great protagonist and she is always trying to find the real truth and to bring the proper person to justice even if it puts herself in danger while she's doing it. While I'm not a fan of putting yourself in danger, it does have to happen sometimes when your solving murders, and Louise always found a way to get out of danger and always seemed to have a backup plan of sorts. Louise's friends and her girlfriend just perfection. loved them so much and loved the dynamic they had with one another and how they helped when needed but also let Louise do what she needed without asking too many questions. I cannot wait to see more of them in the next book and I am so so glad that this is going to be a series because I need more of all of them.
Ms. Afia can I get book two by chance cause um I need to know what Louise gets up to next. Pretty please!?!
Trigger warning: attempted sexual assault, sex trafficking, kidnapping, racism,
When I say I loved this book. I mean I LOVED this book!
Louise Lloyd is my favorite mystery protagonist of this year so far.
Louise is a survivor of a kidnapping and because of that she is well known to a certain extent, but she just wants to live a normal slightly calm life. However, things don't work out like that for her sadly. Instead, she gets dragged into a murder investigation by a detective because of all the people she knows and how she can get into places that police and detectives cannot because of prohibition as well as keeping herself out of jail. So this leads her to have to not only deal with the police detective and his potential shadiness, but also a reporter that keeps sneaking around, and a murderer that she must stop to have her own freedom as well as protecting young girls from getting killed. This is a lot for anyone but Louise was able to juggle it all and was really really good at it. She figured out things that others didn't and caught onto things that were overlooked by the police and never stopped looking.
Now as for who actually was doing the killings, I was kind of shocked by it. For the majority of the last half of the book, I thought it was someone else. I like that I couldn't figure it out for once and that it took all the clues being put together for me to realize who did it. Ms. Afia, you did very well and I can't wait to read more books by you because this one got me for sure.
Overall I loved this book and could not read it fast enough. Louise is a great protagonist and she is always trying to find the real truth and to bring the proper person to justice even if it puts herself in danger while she's doing it. While I'm not a fan of putting yourself in danger, it does have to happen sometimes when your solving murders, and Louise always found a way to get out of danger and always seemed to have a backup plan of sorts. Louise's friends and her girlfriend just perfection. loved them so much and loved the dynamic they had with one another and how they helped when needed but also let Louise do what she needed without asking too many questions. I cannot wait to see more of them in the next book and I am so so glad that this is going to be a series because I need more of all of them.
Ms. Afia can I get book two by chance cause um I need to know what Louise gets up to next. Pretty please!?!