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So happy I came across this book! I had no idea there was a follow-up to ‘Pieces of Her‘, which I read last year at this time. I highly recommend reading them both, in publication order😉📚

👻: 1

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Started yesterday & hoping to be done by EOD tomorrow🤞🏻🤓📚

👻: 1

For a sequel, this might‘ve been better than the first. Andrea decided to take life in her own hands, well as best she can while following orders. Such a page turner… going to find out if there‘s a book #3.

I really liked Girl, Forgotten. I liked the US Marshal, Andrea Oliver who is sent to in protecting the Judge who was receiving death threats. Andrea had been intrigued after hearing about a teenager Emily Vaughn in 1982. Emily was very pregnant and dressed for the prom. Emily‘s daughter is the judges granddaughter. Andrea is determined to solve the murder. With lots of unexpected turns and twists along the way we wonder if it will be solved. 4.5/5

Love Slaughter. Always a delightful twisty turny thriller with engaging characters and solid storyline.

Adding to the reading pile

Great way to start the weekend. 🛀

Just finish this one in audio.
I do enjoy Karin Slaughter. I can usually figure it out if I pay enough attention. Slaughter is a great story teller.

This was confusing at first. Lots of characters right out the gate, who overlap between timelines. But once I got into it, it was pretty good. I didn't realize that it was a sequel of sorts to Pieces of Her until after I read it though. A low pick.

2023… interesting read with surprises… my first book by this author and enjoyed it!!!

This is not a good book. The premise is ridiculous and the characters inconsistent. I almost bailed on it, but I didn't have any other audiobooks lined up and was curious how the story would resolve (answer: very, very slowly). I suspect that I am not a Karin Slaughter fan.

Her partners name is Catfish Bible
#darkcolor

Great story with many twists that kept my interest! I read it on the plane to a work trip, and I finished the whole book in 2 sittings. This is my second book by this author and I‘m loving her stories

Found a #pantone2022 match for this recent read!

I enjoyed Pieces of Her and this follow-up didn‘t disappoint! Andrea Oliver is now a US Marshall and her first assignment is to protect a federal judge who is receiving death threats. She‘s just fine with this, as her new location happens to be the site of the unsolved murder of a 17 year-old-girl back in 1982…and the victim may have a connection to Andrea‘s psychopath father.

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#pop23 - book with “girl” in the title
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This was a compulsive read, loaded with suspense and tension, that had me gripped from beginning to end, as Karin Slaughters books are known to do. There is enough back story that it could be read as a stand alone but I think you will get so much more from it if you read Pieces of her first. ⭐⭐⭐

I read this over two days, it was quite compelling. A recently graduated U S Marshall is assigned to protect a judge, who has been receiving death threats. Forty years before the judge‘s pregnant 17 year old daughter was maliciously attacked and left for dead. She eventually succumbs to her injuries, and dies after giving birth. Who is sending the death threats, who killed the daughter and why is what the book is about.

Starting book #2 in the Andrea Oliver series.

One of my favorite authors read by one of my favorite audiobook narrators.

Suspenseful and tightly written. I enjoyed it a lot, but wished I had read the first book in the series first because it seems like I needed s little more background to keep up.

Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter - Completely gripping book, it made my pulse race. Be warned: it's dangerously addictive. #thiller #karinslaughter #mystery

Picked this on a whim. Wanted to check out this author for a while now. Thoughts?

I thoroughly enjoyed this from start to finish. The two timelines gelled perfectly together and I felt quite invested in the outcome. The characters were strong and compelling and the story moved at a satisfying pace.

Slaughter crafts baddies you love to hate. They have no redeeming qualities, but are written with enough depth to keep your interest. Although I hate “girl” titles, I enjoyed this thriller. New US Marshal Andrea Oliver has been assigned to protect a judge in Longbill Beach. The location suits: she really wants to investigate the 1980‘s murder of a teenager that may be linked to Andrea‘s psychopathic father. Told in alternating time lines.

11-25-22: My 117th finished book of 2022! The sequel to Pieces of Her. In present day, Andrea has just graduated from US Marshal academy. She is thrust into a detail where she has to keep a judge safe. Back in 1982, that judge‘s daughter was murdered and the case was never solved. In a crazy turn of events, the case involves Andrea‘s deranged father. Traveling back and forth in time, we root for Andrea to solve everything. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️📖#️⃣1️⃣1️⃣7️⃣

11-25-22: Reading with my buddy Ollie 📖😻💖

Lately I‘ve found Karin slaughters storylines 1000x better than her writing style.

Written as a prequel to Pieces of Her, this book had promise but the story had a different feel than the previous one in the series. Perhaps I just judged it too much though in comparison to Slaughter's other series.

It's fast-paced, full of twists and graphic crimes, but some of the plot twists were too far fetched for me.

Still a good dark crime novel, just not my favorite by this author.

New book!

I enjoyed the story but I felt like there was a lot of build up for a quick ending

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Another enjoyable read.

As prequel-ish sequel this had a YA vibe that was quite different than the original. Once I settled into the story, I found it interesting. It‘s a wherever-the-facts-may-lead-us type of story!

This one was already in progress when #scarathlon2022 started so I‘m only counting the time read on 10/1 and 10/2 — 4:27 read for #20in4 — 40pts
409 word search words — 4,090pts
Team genre — 15pts
Participation - 1pt

Total: 4,146pts

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I picked this up on a whim during a quick dash to the Library. I didn‘t realise it was the 2nd in a series but it didn‘t matter. Kept me enthralled and I kept wanting to get back to it. Then at around page 300 there was a plot development that was central to everything and was really weak and completely implausible. Left me really disappointed. I also find her books quite brutal and violent. Lots of callous characters. But I keep reading them!

I loved this one! I thought it was a great follow up to Pieces of Her and I‘m really hoping there will be a series! I would really like to read more about Andrea Oliver. I definitely plan on reading more of Karin Slaughter‘s books!

One of my botm picks and I can say it was a good pick! #pageturner #botm

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Phew! I found a new author to devour! I can‘t believe I haven‘t dived into her works before!!! Twisty, turny, dark and creepy! this is #2 in a series but worked as a stand-alone to me going in cold. Going to look up more from her now…

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🎧 There‘s a chapter early on at a doctor‘s office that I found infuriating but I kept reading.

It was a good twisty mystery/thriller.

I enjoyed the twists & turns. The story bounces between the mystery in the past and newly graduated US Marshal Andrea guarding a judge who‘s been getting death threats.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

I was so mad when I found out this book was a sequel to Pieces of Her. So mad.

Obviously I was going to read it anyway. And I‘m glad that was a forgone conclusion because I really enjoyed it. The plot lines, twists, mixed with the MCs inner turmoil, gory, intriguing… nobody does it better.

I was pretty annoyed by the dumbed down “Millennial perspective” in PoH but I found less of it here. A good balance was struck. Excited to see what‘s next.

I can see why this has gotten mixed reviews. But Slaughter has set her own bar so high, particularly with her Will Trent series. And while I readily admit that this isn't her best, she's still such a superior writer to the average crime fiction content, I still can't give this anything but a pick. I was surprised that she did a sequel to Pieces of Her (and wish it had been more obvious that this isn't a standalone) but was still hooked! 4⭐️ #BOTM

I‘ve seen mixed reviews on Girl,Forgotten.. I‘m 100 pages in and I am enjoying it (significantly more than Pieces of Her). And Karin said her next book will be a Will Trent🥳😊

#BOTM pick for August 2022

#StoryGraph: fiction crime thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
393 pages | first published 2022

Series: Andrea Oliver 2

Andrea Oliver is now a US Marshal. She arrives in Longbill Beach on her first assignment: to protect a judge receiving death threats. But, in reality, Andrea is there to find justice for Emily, a pregnant teenager who was murdered 1982. The killer is still out there….

Up next on audio, the Queen! 👑 🎧

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Added *2* Karin Slaughter books to my collection this week. My BF randomly bought me a signed copy of the UK edition of The Last Widow, and it‘s pub day for Girl, Forgotten which I feel like everyone has already read, between the UK release day being so much earlier & BOTM.

Anyway, I‘m gonna go meet her on Friday, what book should I get signed?

This was a disappointment. From plot holes to lack of simple research (bennies are uppers not downers, etc), it seemed she wrote this sequel to Pieces of Her in a rush. She gets a so-so instead of a pan because I like Andrea as a character, but if the next book is this weak, I won‘t continue.

Andrea is a newly minted US Marshall. She gets assigned to watch a judge receiving death threats and gets drawn into the mystery of her daughter‘s murder.

The blue box express 😉 #botm arrived today! I‘m a little disappointed that the prizes for the basic reading challenge aren‘t better, but it‘s a decent notepad. Super curious about what the #ShelfSlayer prize will be!!

I think I‘ll start with the tagged book 👍🏻📖🔪

Pleasantly surprised to receive my #BOTM box already!

They lured me back with a $4.99 offer. 2 minutes after the mailman put this in my hands, I called and cancelled. 😈