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As this prequel novella tells the story of the missing girl from Slaughter’s excellent novel, “Pretty Girls”, it really should be read second. It’s compelling, and suspenseful, and especially poignant knowing how everything ends for her in the novel. But it also went on far too long. It should have been a short story, rather than a novella.

Audiobook, borrowed from my public library via Overdrive. Excellent performance by Kathleen Early, the same narrator that reads “Pretty Girls”.

This is a companion, prequel short story to Pretty Girls. This is the short story about the day Julia Carroll goes missing. Over all this just didn’t work for me and maybe part of that is because I read this after finishing Pretty Girls. However one of the things that I really liked about Pretty Girls is the way that the family reacted to Julia going missing and I didn’t feel like I needed a look the day she went missing. To me it felt trite.

This is a short story prequel to Pretty Girls which was one of my favourite reads of 2016. Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes takes us through the day Julia Carroll went missing. She did things a typical nineteen-year-old would do - went to classes, went out that night with her roommate and best friend, Nancy. She thought about her younger sisters and how she should look out for them more and what they would do together that weekend. Although she had lots of different things going on in her life, her mind always came back to Beatrice Oliver. She went missing five weeks ago and it terrified Julia that a girl her own age could walk out the door and not return and can't be found. And really, it became repetitious for me. Same with what happened with her boyfriend that night. It became repetitious especially in a short story and it just felt bogged down. This was a disappointing read for me. It didn't have the same feel as Pretty Girls at all.

The Novella Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes gives a great backstory to Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter. It follows Julia Carroll, a budding journalist, as she tries to deal with the disappearances of girls in her area. But why is she so anxious about these disappearances? Julia feels that she and the missing girls have similarities. Primarily, the fact that they were young and beautiful.

Constantly checking around the corner, being wary of shadows, and footsteps/sounds behind her as she’s walking down the street. So anxious, in fact, that she’s cautioning her friends and replaying the moments leading up to the other girls’ disappearances…questioning what they could have done differently to prevent it from happening.

But all the “what ifs” and the “should haves” can’t prepare her for what happens. Especially when she, herself, doesn’t listen to the warnings she’s been preaching.

Blonde Hari, Blue Eyes by Karin Slaughter was a quick read that had me wondering when the inevitable would happen to main character, Julia Carroll. The author does a great job of making a situation sound sketchy and that something will happen to Julia, but then *poof* nothing! Just a reader being paranoid for the character…nothing else to see here people, move along…

Although I’m really looking forward to reading Pretty Girls which focuses on Julia’s younger sisters as they deal with Julia’s disappearance all those years ago, I had a difficult time liking Julia. Her extreme anxiousness annoyed me, and the fact that she talks the talk, but doesn’t walk the walk was what killed it for me.

None the less, if you’re planning to read Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter, I would recommend reading Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes before. I always enjoy a good back story, and this one already has me trying to sleuth who did it!