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Summary: Gratuitous violence, and a hum drum, cliche ending
Review: This was clearly written to feed off the public's seeming desire for gore. It reads like a how-to manual for serial killers, and the ending is straight out of a Lifetime Originals Movie. It's that cheesy. Save your money and buy something else from a writer who can do more than coat countless pages with blood to hide a thin plot.
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Summary: A Trilogy?!
Review: Please no! No more of this adjective laden, heavy-handed, gruesome and gratuitously violent writing for me. The plotting is tedious, trite and full of coincidences that would be individually hard to believe, but taken together they inevitably ask for too much suspension of disbelief on the reader's part.Dr. Sara Linton should be a strong female character--one that this genre lacks all too often. But she just ends up being a whiny and unbelievably drawn caricature of a woman we've seen all too often and none too flatteringly before. Her relationships and interactions with and reactions to the other characters lack the depth and realness that a better writer could convey. The only positive I could find would be in the author's ability to describe the small town feel of her part of the deep South along with its prejudices and secrecy. Ultimately a disappointment, considering the hype and protracted release fanfare, but perhaps some will take a chance on the next one.
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Summary: Blindsighted is excellent!
Review: I really enjoyed Blindsighted, although it's not for the faint of heart. Karin Slaughter's writing style is engaging, characters are believeable and interesting, and the plot is frightening but compelling. I read the whole thing in an afternoon--I couldn't put it down. Dr. Sara Linton (pediatrician and medical examiner) finds the body of Sibyl Adams in a pretty grotesque way, and she makes several more grisly discoveries during the ever-widening investigation. She's also got a stalker, and her ex-husband happens to be the town's police chief. Sara has to work with Sibyl's angry twin sister, police officer Lena Adams, who's investigating her sister's case and looking for the killer in their midst. I highly recommend this book and am eagerly anticipating KS's next installment.
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Summary: This Debut is bound for the Bestseller list!
Review: Karin Slaughter has made an incredible debut and is showing her true gift for storytelling. From the first chapter I was drawn into this small Georgia town and hated to see it go when the book was over. Her character development was so precise and complete that I felt as if I was visiting old friends. The conversations between Dr. Sara Linton and her sister, Tessa, made me laugh out loud while the details of rape and murder were realistic enough to make a TLC special seem like 'Little House on the Prairie'. I cannot begin to describe how this book is clever, witty and horrifying all at the same time. At the end of one chapter I was so shocked I tossed the book aside and made a lap around the room saying, 'no, no, no'. Ms. Slaughter is a master of making each chapter more intriguing and suspenseful than the one before. This is much more than a murder mystery in a small town. It's a story of living, loving and learning to forgive while hanging onto a world that is spinning out of control.
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Summary: No Doze says BUY THE BOOK!!!
Review: Without getting too wordy let me say this: Who's Partricia Cornwell???
Karin Slaughter's first book proves she owns this part of the genre. Her characters are amazingly real. She rights like and old pro. I was up all night so I could find out what was happening! When I finished, I had to go on line to see how long I'd have to wait for the next book.
I highly recommend this book. Get used to this name!!! Karin Slaughter is going to leave her mark!
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Summary: Potent -if graphic -debut novel
Review: The novel is set in the fictional small town of Heartsdale ,Georgia ,whose placid and unruffled surface is torn asunder when paediatrician and part time medical examiner ,Sara Linton finds the body of Sibyl Adams ,a young college professor ,savagely mutilated in the rest room of the local diner .As well as having been violated Sibyl has had a cross carved into her stomach .Only when Sara begins the post mortem does the full horror of the killing emerge .
In charge of the investigation is the local chief of police , Jeffrey Tolliver ,who is also Sara's ex husband .
When a second victim is found crucified shortly afterwards Tolliver realises he is dealing with both a vicious sexual predator and a relentless serial killer .He and Sara are obliged to set aside their differences in order to track down the killer .
The book covers pretty familiar ground and it is to the great credit of the debutant author that she has managed to say something new in an over crowded field .The fact that the protagonist is a pathologist invited comparison with Cornwell and Reichs but Slaughter is at least their equal .
The book gives us nothing new but it successfully engages our attention ,even with familiar material .The interplay between characters is well drawn and the sections on Sara'a family backgrond flesh out the book without slowing it down .We come to be concerned for the characters as they penetrate ever closer to the heart of darkness .
Please be advised that it is a graphic book and not for the squeamish but if you seek a visceral ,cuting edge thriller with some strong ,believable and well drawn characters then you will enjoy this one .
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Summary: Vivid and terrifying.....
Review: Karin Slaughter thrusts the reader into her story from the very beginning!! Her writing comes at you fast and hard and you are propelled into the world of Sara Linton, a pediatrician and also the town coroner.
When Sara discovers a college professor in a diner who has been brutally raped and mutilated, moments from death, the horrifying story begins. Is this a random act, will there be others and who can be behind the cold, precise tortuous murder? Sara must deal with the facts in her job as coroner and the feeling that somehow it is her responsibility to find the missing fragments to a perplexing, horrendous murder.
Events from Sara's past surface, affecting the way she looks at everything in her life and coloring her perspective.
This is a compelling, fast paced, psychological thriller that is both vivid and terrifying.
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Summary: Pleasantly surprised
Review: I didn't expect much from this book. I have been very disapointed lately with my favorite authors (P. Cornwell, anyone?) and I thought I'd give this unknown (to me) author a go. I liked this book a lot. The plot was interesting, the story was fast-paced, the descriptions were good. Overall, it was very enjoyable. I will look up the other books by the same author.
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Summary: Transcends the Common Thriller Writers
Review: I once wrote a review on Ms. Slaughter's debut "Blindsighted," but I have since amended my opinion after reading the books that follow "Blindsighted." Since I am not one to mince words, I will put it as clearly as possible: Ms. Slaughter is, quite simply, brilliant. "Blindsighted" is about Dr. Sara Linton (pediatrician and part-time coroner for Grant County), who discovers, quite graphically, the body of a young blind college professor who's been Brutally (with a capital "B") raped and murdered. Well, she isn't quite dead...not yet, anyway. She flops around a bit, getting Dr. Linton blood-spattered and whatnot, but she eventually dies. Either in situ, or at the hospital, I can't quite remember, having read this book about a year ago. The dead, blind professor (who is only the first victim in a string of bodies this twisted freak leaves in his wake) happened to be the sister of Lena Adams who is an employee (police officer/detective) of the local police force. The police force of which Dr. Linton's ex-husband, Jeffery, is the Chief. The plot is set at a break-your-neck speed, the violence, while at an all-time high, is in no way gratuitous. Those few who've given this positively brilliant book less than its most deserving 5 stars seemed to have a problem, most of all, with the violence and the horrendous crimes against women. Well, nobody ever said serial killers were good guys, did they? Even Lena can't escape the viciousness of this horrid foe. He kidnaps her and nails her to the floor (yes, I said nailed, as in "a hammer and...") and rapes her repeatedly over a course of several days, though thankfully she survives and helps apprehend the sicko. He has an affinity for ripping out the teeth of his female victims (without the numbing effects of lidocaine or epinephrine, I assure you) to "rape their faces." He is, as I said above, most certainly NOT a good guy. But he gets his just desserts in the end. And they are AWFULLY sweet. (The killer is, by the way, someone whom you'd never expect when his identity is finally revealed.) Oh, yes, this, Ms. Slaughter's first effort, is, in short, superb. I am writing a novel myself (mystery/serial killer-thriller) and it is from Ms. Slaughter's brilliant and "indelible" books (yes, I used the pun on purpose) that I learned how to put my main characters through absolute hell and pull them through it. Applaud Ms. Slaughter, for she certainly deserves your most fervent praises.
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Summary: in my opinion
Review: I have read Blindsighted and think its one of the best books I've read. it's definitely one of my favorites. you get to know the characters, you'll love the medical terms and the words she uses to describe (in detail) certain situations only helps the reader visualize it with more depth. (so if you have a weak stomach, don't read it. but, if you like the kind of books that grabs you by the throat and leaves you gasping for air until the final page,then Blindsighted is for you and Karin Slaughter is the mastermind behind all.
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