(note: this is a morally grey area if you think what they did was bad and I honestly don't think it was, but I don't want to give away spoilers)
and they get away with it without any legal consequences. That is until years later when Leigh is a lawyer and Calli is a heroin addict and their past comes back to haunt them. Thriller things ensure.
Look, this is a good book. It's fast-paced and well-written. But maybe, just maybe, listening to a story about sisters who truly love one another and are devoted to each other was not the right choice for me at this exact moment in time. (If you're new around here, I have a tumultuous relationship with my sister, my mother died earlier this year, and so everything surrounding my family of origin is difficult.) ANYWAY. I found some scenes really hard to listen to. Really hard. There's graphic (GRAPHIC) depictions of sexual violence; violence violence, including guns; child abuse and neglect; pandemic stuff; and drug abuse. This is not for the faint of heart and I'm slowly coming to the realization that perhaps I *am* the faint of heart.
4/5 stars, but be forewarned
Things I looked up:
Vince Dooley (Spring 2021 - Chapter 1) - an American college football coach. He was the head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs from 1964 to 1988, as well as the University of Georgia's (UGA) athletic director from 1979 to 2004.
viviparous (Spring 2021 - Chapter 4) - there are two definitions, one in zoology and one in botany
- (of an animal) bringing forth live young that have developed inside the body of the parent.
- (of a plant) reproducing from buds that form plantlets while still attached to the parent plant, or from seeds that germinate within the fruit.
Hat mentions (why hats?):
his hat in his hand (Spring 2021 - Chapter 10)
colorful hat on her head (Spring 2021 - Chapter 11)
his hat in his hands (Summer 2005)
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Are you the faint of heart? Do you read a lot of thrillers?
I like some thrillers, but if the characters do something too stupid for words in the first chapters, I pop to the last 2 to see if it's worth continuing. I am not faint of heart, but I prefer more subtle depictions of hard topics. But I can just skim sections so I don't DNF books I otherwise like.
ReplyDeleteI am somewhat faint of heart. I can read about violence up to a point, but I do have a too-much alarm that will go off. Sometimes a story will hit my empathy feelings harder and I just can't do it, can't dissociate enough to read it.
ReplyDeleteI can tolerate more in print than I do in audio, though, since I can skim over the harder parts better with my eyes than my ears, so there are books I just can't do in audio.
I think it depends a lot on my mood. Sometimes I can do a more scary or graphic thriller, but only if I have the bandwidth. That's cool you're doing a reading challenge. I did the Book Riot Read Harder challenge for several years, but I haven't done it for the past few years. Something I'd consider down the line, but I think right now I want to focus on reading books I really love/abandoning what's not working for me, and I think the completest in me would find that hard with a challenge.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read anything by Karen Slaughter before, lately I've been reading alot by Ruth Ware.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy thrillers and the suspense but not hectic violence, in fact I've never listened to an audio tape, I always read.