“She had always believed—vehemently, with great conviction—that the only way to change the world was to destroy it.” If you didn’t know before, you certainly will now—I’m a Karin Slaughter junkie with a capital J and a #slaughtersquad chick-a-dee (with the cat ears to prove it *wink*). It was over a decade ago that I picked up my first Grant County novel and found myself instantly enamored with Slaughter’s brand of dark. My love for the blood and guts splattering her crime-lines, enmeshed wit

3.5 StarsHow well do you know someone? Andrea Cooper thought she knew her Mother, Laura. Her mother is a speech therapist who is a pillar of the community. She is liked and known by most people in their town. But one day at lunch, their whole lives are turned upside down. In the face of danger, Laura jumps into action and Andrea (and the rest of the world) gets to see another side of her Mother. Just who is this woman? Certainly not the woman that Andrea has known her entire life!From that momen...

My reviews can also be seen at: https://deesradreadsandreviews.wordpr...4.5 Stars!! Can you ever truly escape your past? Andrea Cooper and her mother, Laura are having lunch and celebrating Andrea's thirty-first birthday at the Rise n’Dine restaurant at the mall of Belle Isle.Just as they are about to finish up their lunch...Suddenly it feels like the world explodes.People are screaming and crying, trying to take cover. Andrea’s mother tackles her to the ground. What happens next shocks And...

Karin Slaughter has been a relatively recent discovery for me. I really enjoyed her dark gritty The Good Daughter, especially the way she slowly paints in the relationship and backstory between the two female protagonists. It was a nasty, powerful read.Pieces of Her is another slow-paced book about two women - this time a mother and her daughter - but I found the slowness here extremely dull. And the plot seemed a little ludicrous, honestly (though also tamer than expected). Rather than a gritty...

EXCERPT: Andy squeezed her eyes shut. Immediately, the images started scrolling like one of Gordon's vacation slide shows. Laura holding up her hand. The long blade slicing into her palm. Wrenching the knife away. Backhanding the blade into the man's neck. Blood. So much blood. ABOUT THIS BOOK: What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all?Andrea Cooper knows everything about her mother Laura. She knows she's spent her whole life in the small town of

Different is good, and Pieces of Her IS good! I am a Karin Slaughter fan. I thought a few of her previous books were graphically violent just for the sheer shock value, but Slaughter remains a masterful story-teller. I also like her stand-alone books better than her series. While I adore Amanda and Will, too much more of Sarah's perfection would make me ill. Every book has a reader for them and those who adore Slaughter's series most likely will find this book too different for their tastes. I,

4.5/5 stars - This was my 4th Karin Slaughter, and it's further cemented her as one of my favorite...if not my favorite author. Most of her books focus on the relationship between two women, and this centers around a mother and daughter. This was easily the least violent/scary of her books, but I adored it. Video review will be up in a week or two :)

It seemed like any other day. Andy was having lunch at the mall with her mother, Laura, celebrating Andy's 31st birthday. They were briefly interrupted when the relative of a former patient of Laura's stopped by with her daughter to thank Laura for all of her help. Then, without warning, gunfire erupted, and the woman and her daughter were shot to death.As the gunman approached Andy, screaming at her to "do her job," Laura leapt into action. Andy watched her mother move to protect her, disarm th...

Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter is a 2018 William Morrow publication. I love Karin Slaughter’s books, but I haven’t picked one up in a long while. I’d love to get back to her series- "Grant County and Will Trent"- sometime in the near future, but for now, one of her stand alone books was the best choice for me. Unfortunately, it looks like I made the wrong decision with this one. The story grabbed my attention right away with an active shooter and the unusually calm and almost professional way

I might have had too high of expectations going into this one because I loved the author's previous book, The Good Daughter. There's nothing significantly wrong with this novel, but I also can't help but feel like there's nothing new or different that make the story stand out. Andrea Cooper is basically drifting through life. All hell breaks loose when Andrea is at the mall with her mother, Laura, and a gunman starts shooting. In these moments of chaos, she discovers a different side to her moth...

I love Karin Slaughter's books and usually devour them quickly. This one took me a week to read. A week. It just didn’t draw me in and hold me there. I’m also struggling to write this review.The introduction to Andrea “Andy” Oliver and her parents, Laura and Gordon, provided history and insight into their current relationships. Andy was a puzzle for me. She’s 31, lives above her mother's garage, and works nights in a 911 dispatch center. She doesn’t answer when spoken to, is indecisive, alone, s...

Predictable and Long!I’ve been a long time fan of Karin Slaughter, although it’s been a few years since I’ve read one of her books. Having never read a standalone novel of hers, I was excited to delve into ‘Pieces of Her’.Mother-daughter, Laura and Andrea, are enjoying a quiet lunch, when a teenage gunman enters the mall diner, and starts firing. Small-town mum, Laura, not only manages to disarm the killer, but also stabs him in the neck with his own knife. This action, starts a chain-of-events

Andrea (Andy) Oliver was living in New York, trying to make it in the theater world when her mother Laura was diagnosed with cancer. She returned home to Bell Isle, Georgia to help during her treatment and recovery. It’s been three years and she’s still there, struggling to figure out a career direction. She and her mother meet one morning at a diner and find themselves in an explosive situation that changes their lives forever. Andy thought she knew everything about her mother but now she’s dis...

Some mothers lie.  Some are really good at it. This seems to have all the ingredients for a tasty feast, not the least of which is having Karin Slaughter doing the cooking.  Even so, having sat down for the meal, there wasn't much on the table to make my eyes light up, nor to entice my tummy to say "Howdy!".  It simply didn't have the flavor of typical Slaughter fare, in my opinion.  It took me forever to finish it.  A decent read, just not a rave.