Book: Pretty Girls
Pretty Girls
Karin Slaughter
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More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss-a devastating wound that's cruelly ripped open when Claire's husband is killed.
The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago . . . and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it.
Powerful, poignant, and utterly gripping, packed with indelible characters and unforgettable twists, Pretty Girls is a masterful novel from one of the finest writers working today.
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Random Libby loan and I don't know if I should be glad or sorry that I got through. First things first, I listened to this as an audiobook.
The reader's voice was pleasant and was not at all grating.
The book itself was interesting. Plot twists, shock factor, wow factor, thriller, all that was ok. Many people's comments about this was the gory torture scenes. I didn't mind so much the torture scenes... I was super annoyed with the long-winded and repetitive explanations though. Sometimes, word-for-word repeated phrases.
Because of the repetitiveness (and a background boredom) I actually went looking for spoilers, and when I knew that THAT particular thing would happen, I was looking forward to it, and expected that to be the tail end of the book. When I reached THAT scene, and saw there was still 4 more hours of the book, I almost threw out my phone. But no, the book itself was just another 1 hour to finish, the other 2 or so hours was probably a preview of another book or the actual prequel (I haven't finished that yet, so I don't know if it's the story in its entirety or not).