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Dec 19, 2023
"The storytelling in this novel paired dueling narrators, an unhinged serial killer villain and an angry survivor, to reveal elements of the story in a timeline that feels a bit like rapid fire flashbacks. While a little disjointed at…
Aug 24, 2023joyful2743 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
A little confusing at first as the book jumps from time to time and person to person. But once you grasp we are following a serial killer who time travels the intensity increases and it is hard to stop reading.
Jul 01, 2023CareyMacaulay rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Let me start by saying that I am not a huge fan of time travel books -- unless it is of the "wibbily wobbly timey wimey" Doctor Who variety. But, this book worked for me in a huge way. It contains suspense, horror, tragedy,…
Dec 14, 2022Bookworm1136 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
4 stars. This was a very interesting thriller about a serial killer with a very unusual and unexpected twist to it. Harper Curtis is a time traveling serial killer who loves to hunt and kill the shining girls. He visits them when…
Sep 05, 2022Kiana1383 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
In The Shining Girls, Harper Curtis, a serial murderer from Chicago during the Great Depression, finds a key on the person of his most recent victim and uses it to open the door to an odd house. Inside, Harper finds a room filled with what…
Apr 30, 2022
Now a stunning streamed series owned by the epic Elizabeth Moss.
Mar 26, 2022ChandlerAZJami rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
I enjoyed this story a lot more than my 3.5-star rating suggests. Beukes is a bit of a hate-read for me after her 2017 Detroit-set detective mystical horror novel, Broken Monsters. Any white author writing about cities and areas that are…
Aug 04, 2021steverino4 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
She needs her muscular prose to wrestle her bad boy into shape - a time traveling serial killer, whew! Inventive plot, good pacing.
Jul 05, 2019JessicaGma rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Not a bad riff on the magical house used by an evil person style of novel, but it was a bit wonkus as the narrative stream was all over the place due to the time travel. I got a bit tired of the death to all the women serial killer-ness of…
Jul 12, 2018
I found this book fascinating! A serial killer jumps through time, pursuing pre-destined victims that he knows he must kill. In present day, the one woman that managed to escape him is determined to find him and solve her own near-murder.…
Dec 26, 2017JohnK_KCMO rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A serial killer who travels through time. A young woman - smart, sarcastic, punk - who survived his attack. Vivid snapshots of Chicago through the 20th century. There's a lot going on in this novel but it all works brilliantly. Beukes'…
Jul 01, 2017LPL_EliH rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
The Shining Girls has something for everyone-- thoroughly-researched oddities and asides for the historical fiction lovers, suspense and twists for the mystery readers, action and adventure, and at the heart of it all lies a gooey,…
Oct 19, 2016WCLSNorthForkLibrary rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
For fans of both time travel stories and historical fiction, this is a great read! I really enjoyed all of the small details about each of Harper's victims and the grotesque nature of their deaths is contrasted beautifully with their…
Sep 10, 2015wilqser rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Forgettable story about a serial killer committing crimes by traveling through time portals - I know a rather unusual idea for a book. Besides that the chapters are written by going back and forth through time periods and the main…
Jun 06, 2015DruBan rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
To start off, whoever categorized this as SF clearly didn't pay much attention when reading the synopsis. This book is solidly in the "Supernatural Serial Killer" horror genre. Peter Straub, Stephen King et al. have exhausted all the…
May 28, 2015KateHillier rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Great concept more than a great book, I think. Time travelling serial killer who is set to kill certain girls who 'shine' and one girl survives and makes it her job to track down her would be murder. Very interesting book concept but I…
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Mar 23, 2015bubbagtr rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Very cool book, good read. Somewhat confusing, sad but also gripping with characters that get under your skin. The last 20 or 30 pages u're rooting hard, cinematic in scope, like you can see the movie playing out on the screen. …
Dec 18, 2014229050009914201 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This was one of my favorite books of 2013. I got it for Christmas and couldn't put it down!
Aug 05, 2014multcolib_alisonk rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Creepy and graphic, but hard to put down. For fans of horror, suspense and historical fiction with an edge.
Diell
May 14, 2014
like Selden Edwards>The Little Book
dollfacecrafter
Apr 03, 2014dollfacecrafter rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
the whole time travel thing is so fascinating, I would love to time travel! it would be awesome!! this book was a fun read, I liked it a lot. the Time Traveler's Wife was better, though.
Jan 24, 2014kubiak458 rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Strange but good. The only parts of the book that I found sluggish were the chapters where the author tried to sum-up everything about a character in a few paragraphs, right before they were murdered. If she wanted to explain something in…
Nov 01, 2013BlueHippo rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Fun read. The writing is a little choppy and it was hard to get into it, but once I was about 1/4 of the way through, I started to really enjoy it. Interesting twist on time travel theme. I was not real keen on the ending and thought that…
Oct 21, 2013Mmc0119 rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Great start but did get confusing with the time jumping, plus I am not a huge gore fan.
Oct 19, 2013wmtlady rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
I was so turned off by the anger and violence that I couldn't hang in there to see if the author was able to keep a plot going, let alone develop one with real characters. There is a big difference between a book's character having…