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Pieces of Her
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The kindest word I can think of is "disappointment"!
If I hadn't so thoroughly enjoyed many previous novels by Karin Slaughter, I would have done the wall-banger toss much earlier.
It is an unavoidable reality that prolific authors will inevitably pen what some readers think is God's gift to literature but they will also craft what readers will characterize as their worst effort. At three novels, it is obvious that one will be the best, one will be the worst, and one will fall somewhere in the middle. For Karin Slaughter's sake, I fervently hope that PIECES OF HER is that rock-bottom effort which will make anything else she produces look better by comparison.
This one was an absolute hot mess of indecipherable plot, names, motivations, and events that I gave up on as far along as page 480 out of 630. I no longer cared and, indeed, I found it was actually making me angry in the attempt to understand where it might possibly have been headed.
Enough said!
Paul Weiss
If I hadn't so thoroughly enjoyed many previous novels by Karin Slaughter, I would have done the wall-banger toss much earlier.
It is an unavoidable reality that prolific authors will inevitably pen what some readers think is God's gift to literature but they will also craft what readers will characterize as their worst effort. At three novels, it is obvious that one will be the best, one will be the worst, and one will fall somewhere in the middle. For Karin Slaughter's sake, I fervently hope that PIECES OF HER is that rock-bottom effort which will make anything else she produces look better by comparison.
This one was an absolute hot mess of indecipherable plot, names, motivations, and events that I gave up on as far along as page 480 out of 630. I no longer cared and, indeed, I found it was actually making me angry in the attempt to understand where it might possibly have been headed.
Enough said!
Paul Weiss
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March 1, 2024
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March 1, 2024
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to-read
March 1, 2024
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March 1, 2024
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door-stopper
March 1, 2024
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suspense-thriller
March 5, 2024
– Shelved as:
did-not-finish
March 5, 2024
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Finished Reading
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Jul 05, 2024 12:11PM
I almost picked this up. Glad I didn't now!
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I didn't read the book, but I saw Pieces of Her in Netflix and I liked it. I know most books are better than the movies/tv shows. Maybe this is an exception?
