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ASIN: 0007464584 ID #111687 |
Amazon's Price: $ 19.35
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Summary of this Book... | ||
The Time Traveler's Wife meets The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo in this story of a time-traveling serial killer who is impossible to trace — until one of his victims survives. In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining girls: bright young women, burning with potential. He stalks them through their lives across different eras until, in 1989, one of his victims, Kirby Mazrachi, survives and starts hunting him back. Working with an ex-homicide reporter who is falling for her, Kirby has to unravel an impossible mystery. THE SHINING GIRLS is a masterful twist on the classic serial killer tale: a violent quantum leap featuring a memorable and appealing girl in pursuit of a deadly crimina | ||
This type of Book is good for... | ||
For those who like thriller/serial killer tales with bigger twists. | ||
I especially liked... | ||
Very well written, clear and detailed. I wanted to keep reading | ||
I didn't like... | ||
I wasn't 100% sure about the ending and it jumped around slightly too much for me | ||
When I finished reading this Book I wanted to... | ||
Check out if she had any other work | ||
The author of this Book... | ||
Lauren Beukes is a novelist, TV scriptwriter, documentary maker, comics writer and occasional journalist. She won the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award for her novel Zoo City, set in a fantastical Johannesburg where guilt manifests as spirit animal familiars. Her previous works include Moxyland, a dystopian cyberpunk thriller set in Cape Town under corporate apartheid. She helped create South Africa's first half-hour animated TV show, URBO: The Adventures of Pax Afrika, and has written kids animated shows for Disney UK and Millimages in France. | ||
I recommend this Book because... | ||
From what I can tell, the historical details are great. She seemed to have done an incredible amount of research into the details to make it as realistic as possible. | ||
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