Pretty Girls
Karin Slaughter, 2015
Mystery, thriller & crime Contemporary fiction
A sharp, propulsive standalone about two sisters, a long-ago disappearance, and the violence that polite lives can hide.
Feels like dread and serenity. About family and society.
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What a woman weighs before she turns a man down.
It’s the truth. I’m sorry to be blunt about it, but girls don’t like guys who are doormats. Especially pretty girls, because there’s no novelty in it. Guys are hitting on them all of the time. They can’t walk down the street or order a coffee or stand on a corner without some idiot making a comment about how attractive they are. And the women smile because it’s easier than telling them to go fuck themselves. And less dangerous, because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her. Karin Slaughter.Karin Slaughter grew up in Covington, Georgia, and founded Save the Libraries, a nonprofit that supports public libraries.
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- What is Pretty Girls like?
- Feels like dread and serenity. About family and society.
- What should I read after Pretty Girls?
- If you liked Pretty Girls, try Then She Was Gone (Lisa Jewell), Home Is Where the Bodies Are (Jeneva Rose) and If You Tell (Gregg Olsen).
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What it looks like to see the warning signs only afterward.
But one wrong move, one tiny kink in the time line, it was all over. Not just their love story, but all of it. Youth. Life. Ellie Mack. All gone. All gone forever. If she could rewind the timeline, untwist it and roll it back the other way like a ball of wool, she’d see the knots in the yarn, the warning signs. Looking at it backward it was obvious all along. But back then, when she knew nothing about anything, she had not seen it coming. She had walked straight into it with her eyes open.
Then She Was Gone · Lisa Jewell
The word you only get to say to one person.
I’m trying to say Mom as many times as I possibly can because I know I’ll never call another person that again. It’s reserved only for her. There is no replacement.
Home Is Where the Bodies Are · Jeneva Rose
The love a child gives before she knows it can be withheld.
I loved my mother because I didn’t know I had a choice. I had to love her.
If You Tell · Gregg Olsen
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