Put it on my reading list after seeing it listed as a top thriller with really good reviews.
It was the most demented book I’ve ever read, worse than anything by Gillian Flynn or Hannibal Lecter.
It was good, it was thrilling. But I found myself needing to finish the book to find some resolution because the description of torture/killings/evil was so gruesome. Look at the trigger warnings before reading this book!
by easterss
28 Comments
Can you comment more on the trigger warnings? I haven’t read much Slaughter but might in the future and would like to know what to potentially avoid.
Slaughter has incredibly dark stuff in her novels.
Thanks for the heads up. I had this on my list but I don’t think torture would be something I would enjoy reading.
I used to read her stuff. Loads downloaded on my tablet. I cant even re read. I just can’t anymore. Gone too far.
I like Karin Slaughter but I found the main characters in Pretty Girls absolutely insufferable. It ended up being a DNF for me but some of her other books have been 5 star reads!
She definitely doesn’t pull punches with the dark subject matter she writes about. Though I do think Pretty Girls is one of her most graphic.
This is the first book i ever DNF’d because it was just too brutal. Truly made me step back and think why am i spending my free time stressing myself out this way.
I love Karin Slaughter though I usually stick to the Grant County/Sara Linton, Will Trent series. Gonna check this one out.
That was the first and only book of hers I tried to read, and I gave up very quickly. It was too brutal for me.
Pretty Girls was the first and also last book I read by her. I didn’t enjoy it and I read it when I tried to never DNF. I felt physically pretty sick and very uncomfortable.
This was by far the most twisted shit I have ever read. I enjoy a good thriller but it’s not like the graphic descriptions progressed the plot or anything. It was just there for shock value and “yet another way to brutally kill/torture someone”. The way she writes, she seems almost too giddy and eager to depict extreme physical and sexual violence against women. It gave me the icks. I’ve not read another one of her books.
This book was lent to me by a co-worker, who breathlessly told me how amazing it was. I read it and was so disturbed by the graphic gratuitous violence that I swore off Karin Slaughter for life. Additionally it made me really re-evaluate the co-worker as well. Ugh that book.
I was so disgusted by this book, I actually finished reading it at a coffee shop and left it in the shops bathroom. I didn’t even want to carry it with me for one more second.
This is her most sold novel, the darkest and most graphically violent. I personally loved the novel and was cheering for the sisters the whole time. Slaughter has a talent for exploring dark themes and the repercussions of violence and rape on family members.
I mean her last name IS “Slaughter”…
This book gave me nightmares, and I can’t say I liked the implication of >!like-father-like-son re: abusing women!<, but man did it fly by. I liked the portrayal of the sisters’ relationship, especially when >!Claire is rescuing Lydia and Lydia is like “great this idiot didn’t bring backup and now we’re both dead.”!<
I just started it, am at the part where she sees the video on the computer, not surprised to read that the dementia escalates! I have theories about where things are going and I can’t wait to find out whether I’m right. It’s so compulsively readable!
Just finished reading this book. It certainly felt like a splatterpunk book, but the plot is pretty interesting.
I just finished this book and I feel like there was a lot left unsaid. Like who was lexi fuller? And Maria? The part about the answering machines at the fuller house left me confused. Did I not pick up on something?
I think I am in minority of people bc I did not like this book. It really had a great premise and the idea was sooooo interesting (although a tad gruesome for some people from what I see in comments) BUT we found out too much too early ! Wth ?! I have never been so disappointed in any other book in my life. No twist ?! Really ?! Nothing ?! I kept waiting for something bc I was sure there is no way this is it.. but I guess I was wrong. 😑
I had to join Reddit for the sole intention of being able to comment on how angry this book made me. I’m not averse to depictions of violence as long as it serves a plot point, but couple the endless and unnecessary violent acts and descriptions with the characters’ asinine decisions/motivations + how maddeningly slow the story unfolded made me want to scream. I got halfway through and hated everyone in the book, dropped out, and came here.
I hope everyone got murdered by the end of it.
I just finished reading this book and surprisingly I really liked it. Especially near the end where the photos that are described are graphic and disgusting, it’ so unreal that this other world of torture actually exists. Sadly, there’s the loss of loved ones in the most heinous way possible. In the end, revenge won out, just the way I wanted it to.
This book is amazing but yes beware….deff not for the weak
I loved it. I went thru all 20 hours (audiobook) in a few days. I couldn’t stop listening. I think the raw emotion from the characters and their development drew me in as a reader and helped me connect to them.
I hate the Southern accents in the audiobook…just…please use someone with a real accent. It’s so distracting to hear a woman read as a man with a drawl. Plus I hated this book. Give me back 20 hours of my life.
With the last name slaughter we all should of known better.
Finished it yesterday. I thought it was excellent, a page turner for sure.
But I’m not easily bothered by violence as I listen to true crime podcasts all the time.
It is one of the few books I’ve thought about after I finished it though. Mostly because Paul reminds me of my husband >! Though i hope he’s not a serial killer into snuf porn!<
I finished this book today and now I think I need to go hug my cats and take a beach vacation. That was some fucked up stuff but my God, what an incredible book. My favourite thriller right now.
I just finished this morning and I feel suuuuuch a sense of relief but definitely think a good palate cleanser is in order now.