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Chris reviewed Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

None

1 star

DNS. Based on what I've seen here, no wish to read it - and I chuckled my way through "Blood Meridian," and read "American Psycho" mostly bored (which was the author's intent, I do believe).
Thing is, snuff movies do not exist. It's true that some murderers have filmed their killings - especially if there was a political motive - but to actually film someone being killed, just for the purposes of smut, would risk a life in jail and even the death penalty. (yes, I have read Edward Lee's "The House," and it's nasty as well, worse than anything else of his I've read).
It's unlikely to say the least. The whole thing comes across as the female equivalent of incel fiction (if there is such a thing).
If fiction is people being assholes (which I mostly concur with), and even if the function of crime fiction is for …

DNS. Based on what I've seen here, no wish to read it - and I chuckled my way through "Blood Meridian," and read "American Psycho" mostly bored (which was the author's intent, I do believe).
Thing is, snuff movies do not exist. It's true that some murderers have filmed their killings - especially if there was a political motive - but to actually film someone being killed, just for the purposes of smut, would risk a life in jail and even the death penalty. (yes, I have read Edward Lee's "The House," and it's nasty as well, worse than anything else of his I've read).
It's unlikely to say the least. The whole thing comes across as the female equivalent of incel fiction (if there is such a thing).
If fiction is people being assholes (which I mostly concur with), and even if the function of crime fiction is for the reader to avoid being a victim of crime, as snuff films don't exist this even fails on its own terms.
Really. DNS. Did Not Start.

Chris reviewed Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

None

2 stars

I chuckled my way through "Blood Meridian," and read "American Psycho" mostly bored (which was the author's intent, I do believe). Thing is, snuff movies do not exist. It's true that some murderers have filmed their killings - especially if there was a political motive - but to actually film someone being killed, just for the purposes of smut, would risk a life in jail and even the death penalty. (yes, I have read Edward Lee's "The House," and it's nasty as well, worse than anything else of his I've read). It's unlikely to say the least.

The whole thing comes across as the female equivalent of incel fiction (if there is such a thing). If fiction is people being assholes (which I mostly concur with), and even if the function of crime fiction is for the reader to avoid being a victim of crime, as snuff films don't exist …

I chuckled my way through "Blood Meridian," and read "American Psycho" mostly bored (which was the author's intent, I do believe). Thing is, snuff movies do not exist. It's true that some murderers have filmed their killings - especially if there was a political motive - but to actually film someone being killed, just for the purposes of smut, would risk a life in jail and even the death penalty. (yes, I have read Edward Lee's "The House," and it's nasty as well, worse than anything else of his I've read). It's unlikely to say the least.

The whole thing comes across as the female equivalent of incel fiction (if there is such a thing). If fiction is people being assholes (which I mostly concur with), and even if the function of crime fiction is for the reader to avoid being a victim of crime, as snuff films don't exist this even fails on its own terms.