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Author: Lauren Beukes
ISBN : B00A4H1YA4
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THE GIRL WHO WOULDN'T DIE HUNTS THE KILLER WHO SHOULDN'T EXIST.
The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own."
Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future.
Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times.
At the urging of the House, Harper inserts himself into the lives of the shining girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. He's the ultimate hunter, vanishing into another time after each murder, untraceable-until one of his victims survives.
Determined to bring her would-be killer to justice, Kirby joins the Chicago Sun-Times to work with the ex-homicide reporter, Dan Velasquez, who covered her case. Soon Kirby finds herself closing in on the impossible truth . . .
THE SHINING GIRLS is a masterful twist on the serial killer tale: a violent quantum leap featuring a memorable and appealing heroine in pursuit of a deadly criminal.
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- File Size: 525 KB
- Print Length: 401 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0007464568
- Publisher: Mulholland Books; 1 edition (June 4, 2013)
- Sold by: Hachette Book Group
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00A4H1YA4
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This is a novel that is not easily classified. At it's heart, it is the story of a depraved serial killer on the scale of Jack the Ripper. He murders "Shining Girls". The twist to this story is that he does his dirty deeds while travelling back and forth in time to any year between 1931 and 1993. The time travel takes place via a special house that he sort of stumbles upon in 1930's New York. None of the paranormal details are really explained. It's just a given. The story sticks to the premise of following the killer named Harper as he finds his shining girls usually as young children and then returns to them years later when he murders them. The one exception is a spitfire of a girl named Kirby. Harper is interrupted in his "fun" with Kirby so she manages to survive although she is terribly scarred. Kirby goes on to become a journalist and enlists the aid of a fellow reporter to help her investigate murders which are similar in nature to what was done to her. Strange inconsistencies begin to show up in the details of the crime scenes which evenutally leads Kirby to a showdown with Harper. The writing for this work is flawless. The action flows seamlessly from person to person and from one era in time to another without losing focus or intensity. The characters are affecting. You either love them or loathe them which is what ultimately makes a novel something to remember. I can't remember a meaner, nastier murderer than Harper since perhaps the likes of Hannibal Lecter. Kirby, on the other hand, is a young woman full of spirit and determination. You are instantly in her corner and rooting for her to win. The details with which each crime is described including the period of time in which it occurs is done very authentically. It feels real as you read it.
I really wanted to like this book. I mean, I was biased from the get go. Moxyland (Angry Robot) is a flawed but brilliant work of angsty brilliance mixed with sci-fi.Zoo City is one of my favorite books, a seedy noir fandango through a Other-Earth South Africa.
Lauren Beukes "Shining Girls" is an attempt at a time-travel thriller, which works on a few levels, but is seriously lacking something from her previous two books.
The killer is revealed much to early. She sets him up as a slightly twisted man on the run, which he plunges into complete madness immediately the second he enters into the house. There is another force at work that is never explained. He's repeatedly described as "charming", but the reader is never charmed. And the amount of times he gets physically damaged just to get up and carry on killing is border-line insulting to my believability-meter. He just does what he does because the author needs a time-traveling baddy.
And it's such a pity that we're stuck riding shotgun with him for most of the book. Kirby is way too damaged for me to have any real connection with her. She bats others away with sarcasm without any real insight to her real feelings, thus locking both the people who want to help her out of her life and the reader from who she really is under the sass. Not my favorite heroine ever.
The other characters are much more "real", but I think without the Killer running around doing unfathomable things, they would have fallen flat.