Do we really need it in our fictional novels too? Novels like this are meant for entertainment, not political “enlightenment”. We have to read about it in the news, hear it on the radio, see it on the TV, live with it every single day in our professional and personal lives. Everyone is tired of the stress of the last 1.5 years and the entire covid debacle. People read fiction because they want to escape reality for a while, to enter a world different from their own, to relax, unwind and get caught up in a great story. Was all that really necessary? Would she normally mention that a character picks up and takes her purse every single time she leaves a location? No, because it’s irrelevant information unless the book is about a serial purse snatcher. She pushed the elevator button with her elbow. Every single time a character entered a room she made a point to tell the reader they put on their mask. It got better after the first few chapters, but covid was still woven into everything in the story. The first two chapters, usually devoted to back story and character development, was 90% covid preaching. The constant covid verbal vomit was just too much. I was looking forward to reading this, but I really had to force my way through it at times. Slaughter is a great writer and I normally love her work. Non stop Covid preaching ruined a GREAT story I used to LOVE Karin Slaughter, but I returned her last book because I was so turned off by the social and political theme early on, and I feel like this is going down the same way. I want to escape all of that when I listen to a book, not trigger PT□D. We’ve all spent over a year wearing them, forgetting them, sweating in them, stressing about them, debating them, hating one another over them. This is petty of me, but I didn’t want to hear all the “mask” talk either. I don’t own a Birkin, so no skin off my Coach crossbody, but just something to think about (I actually didn’t even know how to spell “Birkin”). And for heaven’s sake, let’s be kinder & more accepting, but assume all women with money are “Birkin bitches”. It’s not that I disagree with all of it, but it’s really heavy. Wait, is this a thriller, CNN special report or Surgeon General Warning?Įvery possible liberal political agenda is dripping through every chapter. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only person who can help her is her estranged younger sister Callie, the last person Leigh would ever want to ask for help. If she can’t get him acquitted, she’ll lose much more than the case. More to the point, he knows what happened 20 years ago and why Leigh has spent two decades running. But when she meets the accused, she realizes that it’s no coincidence that he’s chosen her as his attorney. It’s the highest profile case she’s ever been given - a case that could transform her career, if she wins. Then a case lands on her desk - defending a wealthy man accused of rape. She has a good job as a defense attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilized - her life is just as unremarkable as she’d always hoped it would be.īut Leigh’s ordinary life masks a childhood that was far from average.a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and finally torn apart by a devastating act of violence. Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. From the New York Times best-selling author of Pieces of Her and The Silent Wife, an electrifying stand-alone thriller.
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