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Title: Kisscut by Karin Slaughter ISBN: 0-06-053404-4 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.61 (41 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An explosive, MUST READ thriller.
Comment: Jenny Weaver was a smart, pretty, high school student with everything to live for...then why did she go crazy threatening to shoot her sometime boyfriend after she attempted to flush her twenty-eight week old baby down the toilet? This is the question that puzzles Dr. Sara Linton as she examines the body of the teenager after being shot by Chief Jeffery Tolliver.
As Sara examines the body she finds shocking evidence that proves Jenny could not have given birth to the child, and further still is more shocking evidence that leads to many un-answered questions.
Jeffery Tolliver, riddled with guilt over killing the young girl, is determined to get answers, so he begins his investigation with detective Lena Adams, a scarred woman trying to cope with the nightmares of her rape, and the death of her sister, but as the case unfolds the two will need Sara's help and what they uncover is more shocking than anything they could have imagined.
'Kisscut' is an excellent, MUST-READ thriller that needs all it's secrets kept intact so I can't go further into the plot. The book grabs you by the throat on page one, and holds you captive until the explosive finale. There has been much hype surrounding this book, and for once it's warranted; it's a fast-paced, well written, page-turner that readers will devour in one sitting.
Karin Slaughter has been compared to Patricia Cornwell but it's not a fare comparison because she's better, much better than Cornwell. 'Kisscut', being Slaughter's second novel, is a brilliant thriller that should land on all the bestseller list's, and prove her to be a master storyteller.
A MUST read!
Nick Gonnella
Rating: 3
Summary: Better than it deserves to be.
Comment: I was uneasy after I read Slaughter's first novel, Blindsighted. As much as I found it very strong, I also felt like it leaned too much on some particularly shocking and sensational elements of the crimes to provide its bite.
Unfortunately, instead of making me feel better about Slaughter, Kisscut seems to me a step in the wrong direction.
Be aware before you read this book-- it deals in an explicit way with incest, child pornography, genital mutilation, and violence towards children. It's not for the faint of heart, nor for young readers.
I found the plot points stretched rather thin here, and again I felt like the book strayed rather too close to exploitation of its subjects rather than exploration.
This said, Slaughter is a really strong writer. The characters are very well written, the details of their emotional responses are well-conceived and usually felt to me right on. Lena may be a bit tiresome as a character, but she also makes real sense, particularly coming off the events in Blindsighted.
I'd like to see what happens if Slaughter takes her obvious talents and applies them to less sensationalist material.
Rating: 3
Summary: Kisscut Extremes
Comment: This past week, I finished Kisscut, the second book by Karin Slaughter. I'd read the first novel by this author a few months ago, and while I wasn't blown away by her writing, I was curious enough to consider the next book in the series. After all, this author received a three-book, six-figure contract based on the first book, so why not study her efforts to see what publishers are buying?
Returning to the Georgia-based setting are pediatrician and part-time coroner, Sara Linton, her ex-husband and police chief, Jeff Tolliver, and police detective, Lena Adams, who is still recovering from a brutal rape and attack depicted in the previous book. Sara interested me a great deal because of her relationship with her mother, but Lena, whose sister was murdered in the first book, wasn't as appealing. In fact, she's downright unpleasant at times. Maybe that's the point, as the second book explores.
Anyway, Kisscut starts off with the police shooting of Jenny, a 13-year old who threatened to kill boy outside a roller rink. Clearly distraught, the girl was last seen exiting the restroom... where the tattered remains of a pre-term fetus are found, flushed in the toilet. Are the two connected? Did Jenny intend to kill the father of her baby?
The story isn't just about Jenny, the baby (which actually isn't hers) and her attempted murder of the boy. In fact, it's a far more sordid, brutal tale of extensive child abuse, self-mutilation, incest and pornography. Slaughter thankfully doesn't go into explicit detail, though she still manages to sicken and horrify through alluded passages. It's a twisted, frustrating journey that layers trauma upon trauma, discovery upon discovery. The ultimate culprits aren't the usual suspects, and that makes the story even more difficult to handle.
For the most part, the text was engaging with a good balance between the A story (the mystery) and the B stories (Lena's struggle to accept what happened to her and move on, Sara/Jeff's rekindled relationship) with strong description and dialogue. Slaughter did improve from the first book, though Lena is still very much an angry, unlikable woman, and I haven't decided yet if I want to read the third book in the series.
For those who can stomach the actual story, Kisscut is a worthwhile read for an above average mystery... but it's not one I'd ever want to read or think about again.
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Title: Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter ISBN: 0380820889 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: A Faint Cold Fear by Karin Slaughter ISBN: 0688174582 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Sinner by TESS GERRITSEN ISBN: 0345458915 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 19 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Killing Hour by LISA GARDNER ISBN: 0553802526 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 15 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Kills by Linda Fairstein ISBN: 0743223551 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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