True Crime
Ratings22
Average rating3.7
Such a hard hitting, raw, and devastating read. I was unnerved, cautious yet eager to see where the story goes. A great selection for #WomenInHorrorMonth!
Fav quote:
???There were people who hurt others thinking others would hurt them. And then there were people who hurt others knowing would t hurt them back. The world was all comprised of people just causing hurt.???
Dark as hell but excellently written! I'd love to read more by Samantha Kolesnik; here's to hoping for a future release with a little more meat on the bone.
Gut punching brilliance. This is the kind of horror I'm after.
as a side note, i'm obsessed with the cover
Disturbing, Yet Compelling
True Crime is a novel about how a young woman drawn to the true crime genre begins living true crimes of her own. It is also a story about the impact of violence, generational trauma, and how a human being may be consumed and subsumed by the worst days of their life. This novel is loaded with triggering content: child abuse, rape, animal cruelty, homicide, sexual abuse, etc. Reading this story was very off-putting, yet it was also extremely compelling. I read this book quickly and couldn't put it down. The author's skill is evident throughout, beautiful prose and expert pacing transform this depressing tale into something that feels profoundly human. I was frustrated this book, in many ways I felt it represented some of the worst aspects of human nature. Yet just because these characteristics are bad, does not mean they are not true. True Crime seemed to tap into something about the human experience that resonated with me, even if it was antithetical to how I strive to live me life. Pain, fear, indifference, and violence abound. Yet this ultimately a portrayal of the struggle to love and be loved. Overall I give this book ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.
1.5
This book had a lot to say about trauma and violence that I thought was actually really interesting and semi-well done but the actual plot, characters, everything else that makes a story? Non-existent. It's like she scribbled down the plot points and what the characters were supposed to be like, her thoughts about trauma and sexual violence and how she wanted the character to think, mashed it together and published it. The story was so poorly written that I could barely tell what was happening because events would get one line to a couple of paragraphs maximum.