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Lauren Beukes: The shining girls (Hardcover, 2013, Mulholland Books / Little, Brown and Company) 4 stars

"A time-traveling serial killer is impossible to trace-- until one of his victims survives. In …

Review of 'The shining girls' on 'Goodreads'

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Got to about 60%. The premise here is really interesting, and I enjoy the paranormal or magical in my thrillers. But wow, as the book progressed I got so bored. There’s no real “how” or “why” mystery here (at least as far as I could tell), so instead it’s a sequence of people you know will die getting killed. I think the tension is supposed to come from Kirby’s search for the killer, but her chapters are regularly about anything but that.

Kirby herself is unfortunately the type of character I don’t enjoy much - sassy and sarcastic at all times - so I didn’t have much attachment to her to push through.