The girl in 6E
Ratings17
Average rating3.5
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Initial Thoughts”
This was a very different genre than what I typically read and I'm surprised that once I got used to it that I was intrigued. This definitely did remind me of a female Dexter and it was interesting to see how Deanna hid herself from society until she believed she was the only one who could help.
Good premise and a quick read, but it's just missing something.
Maybe a bit more of the past, a bit more about her “affliction”, a bit less of her profession, who knows :/
Told in a mixture of first person and third person narrative, The Girl in 6E tells the story of Deanna, an online webcam model, who has locked herself away to stop herself from acting upon her psychotic urges, having already killed once before.
Everything is going well in her structured world of prepared food and easy money until one of her clients rocks her world with a disturbing fantasy, though when she goes to the police no one believes her. Having locked herself in her apartment with only her neighbours and her deliveryman Jeremy as her connection to the outside world, what can she do?
Comparisons to “Dexter” are perfectly valid here, we really get into Deanna's head, learn her backstory and get into her world. The short chapters keep the writing and the story fast and interesting, like any other good thriller.
With an open ending (and therefore scope for a sequel), I very much enjoyed this well paced thriller.
Suspension of belief required...
I'm in two minds about this book - whilst it did keep me intrigued and I read it very quickly, I felt like it was a book of two starkly different halves. The first half was overloaded with erotica which cut off completely at the half way mark when Deanna leaves the apartment. Obviously I'm not saying I expected it to carry on after it left, it hardly could, but perhaps there was just too much of it in the first half that the switch over felt very sudden. I did enjoy Deanna as a character, she is complex and weird and actually tries to deal with her problems. On the negative side I honestly had some moments of just utter disbelief, you do have to take this book at it's surface level and just enjoy it for what it is rather than trying to delve too deeply into what else it means. All in all a fairly gripping (erotic) thriller that requires a little suspension of belief.