While I was reading this I was totally in it. Because it involved time travel and enough clues I could kind of tell that things would be resolved the way I wanted, but that didn't lessen the tension. And I kept seeing Kirby as the actor who played Alice in the 3rd season of Channel Zero (Olivia Lucc...
While reading this book, I began to imagine a conversation that goes something like this: A whole bunch of authors: “We like to try to confuse readers by making our stories bounce back and forth between three or four different time periods.” Lauren Beukes: *indelicate snort* “Bitches, that’s not...
First, we'll address the 800-pound gorilla in the room."How you doin', Mr. Bananas?""Doing fine, E. How's the family?""They're well. Autumn's growing up too quick and Chris... well, Chris is a dude. You know how dudes are.""I do, I do. So what is it that I can help you with, E.?""Oh, nothing. Just w...
Synopsis: 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 Depress...
The Shining Girls had a strong ending, which bumped this from a three to four star book for me. the plot: a serial killer, Harper, uses a mysterious house to travel through time to kill girls who "shine." here, "shine" seems to mean girls with special potential and energy. Harper's home of operation...
A monster that sucks people's brains out their heads is far less disturbing than a serial killer that stalks and kills girls for no reason. An “equal opportunity” serial killer that kills men as well as women is also less disturbing. I don’t know much about real life serial killers but for some reas...
This story moves through time from the 1930's through the 1990's, not in a straight line, but jumping from time to time. The killer (Harper) lives in the 1930's and he finds a house with special powers. When Harper leaves the house, he enters different years. Inside the house, Harper finds a list of...
I finally finished The Shining Girls after approximately three months. I guess that is not a really good sign. The premise was just so good, a time travelling house that demands murders, that the story itself could in the end not life up to the great expectations it had created. The beginning is a...
It is as if he has spent his entire life in a drunken blur, but now the veil has been whipped away. It is the moment of pure clarity, like fucking, or the instant he opened up Jimmy Grebe's throat. Like dancing in irradiated paint. I picked this book up from the library because I was approved for L...
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes When he finds the House-- or maybe it is when the House finds him-- Harper Curtis becomes something more than an angry, bitter cripple driven by an unhealthy obsession with death. On the outside, the House looks like any other derelict residence on Chicago’s mea...
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