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Reviewed by Brenda Ballard for Readers' Favorite
The Shining Girls: A Novel by Lauren Beukes is something for the iron gut, thrill-seeking reader. Harper Curtis is one sick dude whose actions are propelled by the call of The House. It is not just any house. This one enables him to time travel, which really helps when you don't want to be found. A serial killer who finds his prey young then springs forward to snuff them out at an older age; it is the perfect getaway. Who would believe it, anyway? His marks are many and his calling card unique. An item from the future left next to their dead bodies means nothing to detectives and goes unnoticed until somebody discovers the pattern. She is the only survivor of his throat slashing habit and quite intent on finding the man who nearly murdered her. Kirby Mazrachi has enough problems without this guy, but somehow she manages to get through high school, enroll in college, and intern at the Chicago-Sun Times newspaper. She requests to assist former homicide writer Dan Velasquez, who also just happens to have covered her story. What lies ahead for all involved will be something that nobody could see coming.
Lauren Beukes takes her readers to a very deep, dark place in the mind of a serial killer. The Shining Girls: A Novel is nowhere near okay for the faint of heart. It is gruesome, graphic, horrific, and gut wrenching. It is a thriller..the kind that causes you to forever lock the door behind you and close the blinds at dusk. If this is what you are into, you will not be disappointed!
