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August #WrapUp

I can't believe how much I've read this month 🤯
Coming back from a very long, very bad reading slump feels so good. 😍

5✨
After finishing 'After That Night' last year, I've been meaning to re-read Sara's story again.
So when I saw 'This Is Why We Lied' on the shelf at my local bookshop and realised I still haven't gotten around to my re-read, I just caved and got them all on audio.
Listening to this was a different experience.

Excited to start 'Kisscut'

This was a very well written thriller, and I could not stop listening. It is a brutal, graphic read though. I don‘t get triggered and there were some very disturbing scenes to read. This is also dated in some of the treatment of women, though sadly it may still be accurate in some places. I haven‘t decided if I will read more of this author or not. Definitely check content warnings before reading this one. 4⭐️

#WinterReadathonDailyChallenge Today is apparently Women Rock day & so the prompt was post the women in any field you think rock. In authors, it had to be Karin Slaughter. Brilliant writer & lovely person. And then my bold women rockers. Janis Joplin of course, Stevie Nicks, Kate Bush, Pink, Lady Gaga & the incorrigible and totally irreplaceable Miss Chrissie Amphlett. All women who are completely & unashamedly their badass selves.🤘

#ScarathlonDailyPrompts #Day7 #Victim This 1st Karin Slaughter novel opens with two women who were victims before overcoming their past. Sara Linton was an assault survivor who became a respected doctor & Sibyl Adams who survived an accident that left her blind before becoming a professor at a large college. Of course, Sibyl becomes a victim again, the very 1st Slaughter victim in fact. #Scarathlon #TeamSlaughter 6pts

Blindsighted is the first in her Grant County series. The mystery is pretty good. A killer is attacking women. When Dr. Sara Linton finds the first victim, in a local diner, she becomes involved in the hunt. The killer is ruthless and inventive. And he seems to have a connection to Sara. I was a bit disappointed when the identity of the killer and his motive was revealed. But getting to the reveal was a great ride.

I was planning to start this series and binge at the beginning of summer but life happens and I hardly picked up a book. I'm not ready for summer to be over yet so I'm starting the #SummerOfSlaughter now 🤣

Absolutely loved this! I've picked up different Slaughter books here and there over the years but I think I'm already hooked on Grant County. Diving right into the next book immediately!!

#BookspinBingo #NewSeries #Binge
@TheAromaofBooks

Trying to enjoy the warm days for as long as they'll last. The boy isn't quite "sit and read while I play independently outside" aged yet but audiobooks can move with me while he learns!

#Summertime #BooksInTheSun #SlaughterTime #NewSeries #SeriesRead #MaybeNextYear

Bk13 of June & #BigJuneReadathon is done. After ripping through the latest Slaughter so quick, I‘ve decided to go back & reread the Grant County/Will Linton books from the start. Unfortunately I found when I did #TheGreatLibraryCleanOf2022 that some of them have been “liberated” from my collection but all book thieves will get their just desserts one day.😈Sara Linton is a coroner & paediatrician in a small Georgia town👇👇

This was good but man I swear she does not hold back on the violence and gory details. I did find all the Wuthering Height names distracting having so recently finished the book. Seeing Cathy Linton call Nelly at the clinic just pulled me out of the story a minute.

Reading BlindShighted and there is character named Hareton Earnshaw and a nurse named Ellen. Guessing the author is a Wuthering Heights fan😂 #WanderingThroughWutheringHeights

The start of Jeffrey! I am team will, but who isn‘t?

Book 1 of the Grant County Series does a good job of introducing the main protagonists and supporting characters. The level of violence in this story sets the bar for description that few authors would commit to. Because we are seeing events from the POV of a doctor and a county sheriff, the author doesn‘t hold back. Pacing and character development was good. I read the entire series.

Karen slaughter has done it again. Super thrilling story of someone ritually raping and killing women in this small county. Great characters, including a doctor that is also the coroner. It also brings to light the issues in the south with race and lgbt.

1. Not really, but I try to guess literally every possibility, I have to be right sometime.

2. (Tagged) Grant County series by Karin Slaughter is a recent fave. Also LKH‘s Anita Blake, White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland, Sookie or earlier Charlaine Harris. None of these are similar to the tagged lol.

3. I‘ve been reading more suspense & I have run into many “unreliable narrators”

4. Next week = no work! 🏔🏖😴📚

Thanks for the tag @DarkMina

#SeriesRead2021 @TheSpineView

Holy crap! This was an intense read, very graphic, but so good.

I loved the setting, the characters, and the story left me wanting more.

Now on to book 2. 😁

#12coloursofdecember

Silver

#wintergames #merryreaders #wintergames2020

My last of the #top20series #20series20days and it‘s certainly not least! It‘s in my top 3 favorites but I might actually say that this series is my very favorite. I definitely that these two should actually be read as one series. Grant County leads to Will Trent. I absolutely love this series! Karin Slaughter is one of the few autobuy authors I have.

#20Series20Days #Top20Series What day are we on? 🤷🏻‍♀️

I loved Slaughter‘s Grant county series so much but was so emotionally traumatized by it, I haven‘t read anything by her since. 😂

#20series20days
Ok, generally seen as two series, but there‘s no way I could read Will without reading the Grant series first just too much background. But I can never read out of order!
Love these, not for the faint hearted though, very graphic and gory.

Seriously freaked out when I saw Karin on Holey Moley! I‘m sure others saw this but my husband was worried something happened when I shrieked. I love her!

This was the first time I had read a book written by this author. It was okay. A little bit predictable as I guess who the killer was quite early on. ⭐⭐⭐

Yikes.
Look out mateys, thar be some dark, dark stuff ahead. I‘m not one to turn back from triggering material, but there were definitely moments in “Blindsighted” that I was gritting my teeth or setting the book aside to breathe and move forward.
Dark, dark mystery thriller featuring a pediatrician who moonlights as a mortician in her small southern town, with her ex-husband as the chief of a police. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, 4 outta 5.

#RedReading
#AugustABC

Tbr!!!

If this ever got made into a movie, Breeda Wool is who I would pick to play Sara. The pacing was very good, I feel like Karin Slaughter gave a couple of the twists up too early. Didn‘t quite have time to ruminate. The character dynamics/relationships were awesome. There were a couple times Sara‘s actions made me frustrated.

I have heard a lot about the Grant County series, so I thought I would give it a shot. I enjoyed the characters here and the pacing. I have the next two books lined up after I finish one of her more recent books, The Kept Woman.

1. Tie between Shatter Me and Sookie Stackhouse series.
2. Tartar sauce
3. Crowded places, centipedes
4. Just one - he is the best!
5. Happy FriYAY to you!

My reading buddy for the night💜😍

Who needs sleep when you‘ve got a good book? So glad I found Karin Slaughter! Her stuff is amazing!!! 📚

I read through this one really fast! It was much more graphic in its descriptions of the murders than I was expecting. Also definitely trigger warnings for sexual assault.

Just in case anyone‘s interested...😊

PSA: Blindsighted is currently on sale for $1.99 on most e-book formats. I love this series so much!

(And as I've mentioned many a time, read this series before Will Trent!)

I really like Karin Slaughter‘s writing. She does such a good job of building suspense and throwing in curves that work. She doesn‘t shy away from the gruesome, but she doesn‘t overdo it either which I think is a hard balance to find in this genre. This was a scary book about a serial rapist and the hunt to find out who he is and how to stop him. Full of dark turns and lots of edge of your seat moments.

This was my pick for the #Booked2019 challenge.For 1. #femaleDetective I know Slaughter is huge & I am late to the party .Very suspenseful with well drawn characters,it was very hard to put down.The evil herbalism added depth.Think I will visit Grant County again sometime! TW sexual violence.

Oh my goodness... I don‘t even have the words! This book sucked me in and I couldn‘t get enough. I just spent the last 3 1/2 hours not caring about doing anything other than finding out what would happen in this book! Honestly, didn‘t think I‘d be crazy for Karin... but I am! 😱🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Getting a little reading in before a client and spending time with this guy! Theo is super cuddly today. I‘m so excited to finally start this series! My brother in law gave this book to me for Christmas. 🤗

Thank you soooo much @robinb for the sweet surprise!!! This was so thoughtful of you and such a great idea!! I haven‘t read this one yet and I loved The Good Daughter!! I will definitely pay it forward!! Merry Christmas to you and your family ❤️🎁🎅

Reading this excellent book, but what a bummer... Living in a non-English speaking country I can‘t get the rest of the series in English ☹️ Have the same problem with Scott Mariani and Ann Cleeves for example. Happened to find this one at a flea market, but now... Raven Black, Kisscut and The Alchemist‘s Secret, I want you, I need you! 😔

My first Slaughter. I couldn‘t resist her any longer after all the praise by @swishandflick and @MicheleinPhilly ! And I really felt like a pageturner after all those Man Booker books. So this was the right book at the right moment. And thrilling is it. What a horrible descriptions of rape and murder, what a fantasy she must have to come up with this! But it kept me going and I already ordered a copy of the second in the series.

First time reading a Karin Slaughter, and I enjoyed it immensely. Granted, I guessed the ending about halfway through but actually this didn't dampen the big reveal because it just made me want to get to the end quicker to find out!

Bit grim, and not the most thrilling story, but suitably entertaining and would definitely read more of hers. Alas, no Heathcliff though. Or Kate Bush. 6/10.

Bonus Scully #catsoflitsy

Earnshaw. Hareton. Linton.

Apparently Karin Slaughter is a Brontë fan. Maybe I'll get a Heathcliff in the next chapter. Or a Cathy. Or Kate Bush.

#booknerd #itsmecathy #socooooold

Bit of retail therapy needed this morning to soothe my clouds. Thank goodness for the charity bookshop thirty seconds from my house.

Looking forward to these!

A quick #junkFoodForTheBrain read as a palate cleanser after many heavy books.

I am currently listening to my very first Karin Slaughter book. With a name like Slaughter it has to be scary right? 💙📚#blindsighted #karinslaughter