Books by Lauren Beukes
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review 1: Seemed to borrow a lot from Stephen King's 11/22/63-- it's got a time-travel node, true crime, and lots of nostalgia for USAmerican past. I really liked 11/22/63. The Shining Girls also fits in with books about serial killers-- I'd recommend this for a streak of serial reading (h...
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review 1: Hmmm - I just read the other reviews, mostly 4 and 5 stars, and wonder what I missed. Detective Gabriella Versada gets called in on a bizarre. The victim (victims?) is the torso of a child fused to the hind quarters of a deer. While she's out trying to find the killer, her daug...
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review 1: I really like the concept of the story, and I would like a sloth to carry around with me. Overall, the mystery was well done, though it's never made clear why poor Mrs. Ludiski (sp?) was killed in the beginning. Also, I think Beukes could have explained how one gets an animal a l...
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review 1: I literally said "woah" when I finished this book. Good, good sci-fi/almost cyberpunk, a credible the-future-next-Sunday dystopia. Worth a reread, or maybe is just wish it was longer, or more books were set in the same universe. (Maybe the MaddAdam just spoiled me on that fully-e...
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review 1: Revenge. Survival. May/December romance (maybe), serial killer, time travel, good writing. We have been all these places before, but here we are enmeshed in all of them at once.Not a book to plop into a category, 'The Shining Girls' gives us a plucky heroine and twisty turns w...