Fractured by Karin Slaughter
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Book Reviews of Fractured
Book Review: Good Booke
Summary: 5 Stars
As with all the other Karen Slaughter books I throughly enjoyed Fractured. She's an easy read. Once you pick it up you don't want to put it down.Book Review: Fractured
Summary: 5 Stars
Brilliant couldn't put the book down Karen Slaugher is a fantastic writer just love her...Book Review: Fractured
Summary: 4 Stars
Karin Slaughter returns to the location and brings back characters from her earlier novel, "Triptych," the location being Atlanta, Georgia. Will Trent, 6'3 and thirty-six years old, of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, is called to the scene in an upscale enclave where two dead bodies are found. A 19-year-old boy and 17-year-old girl are found murdered, the young woman having been savagely stabbed and beaten and the boy stabbed and strangled to death, the latter apparently strangled at the hands of Abigail Campano, the woman in whose home---mansion, really---the bodies have been found. In addition to the two deaths, it appears that another young girl has been kidnapped. Surprisingly, Will's boss, Amanda Wagner, deputy director of the special criminal apprehension team, has assigned a young city cop, Faith Mitchell, to work the case with him. [Faith, at 33 and with an 18-year-old son, knows something about teenage angst [both her son's and her own at 14 when she became pregnant with him while in high school.] Another character to whom we are introduced is Angie, a former vice cop with a rep for promiscuity, to whom, against all odds, Will is now engaged.
Faith's working with Will is fraught with complications: Six months earlier Will had been asked to investigate the APD narcotics squad, which "had resulted in the firing of six Atlanta police detectives and forced the early retirement of one of the city's highest-ranking officers. The cases were good --- the cops were skimming cash off of narcotics busts --- but nobody liked a stranger cleaning their house, and Will had not exactly made friends during the course of the investigation." And now Faith is asked to work with the man who had helped force her mother off the job.
Will and Paul Campano, Abigail's husband, have a history going back nearly three decades, when they were both in the Atlanta Children's Home [as was Angie]. Paul was adopted at the age of 12, while Will remained in his soul-stifling environs until eighteen, when the law mandated he leave, however ill-prepared he may have been for that eventuality. The circumstances of their childhood have had a profound effect on all of them, as has Will's learning disability, which he takes great pains to hide. He and Faith are well-drawn protagonists, and this reader looks forward to reading the next book in what is hoped will be a continuing series.
The book is much more than a police procedural. One thing it is not, as one might expect it might be, is uniformly somber, the author's humor often evident. A high level of suspense is maintained throughout as the detectives work the clues, hoping that they are in time to prevent the loss of yet another young life. Well written and fast-paced, the book is highly recommended.
Book Review: Slaughter has redeemed herself in my eyes.....
Summary: 4 Stars
After "Beyond Reach," I vowed never to read another Karin Slaughter book despite the fact that I had loved them ALL until that one.
A friend, Barbara, convinced me to try "Fractured" AND sent it to me, saying that it would change my mind. And it did. I had also enjoyed Triptych so figured I may as well see although I still don't understand the purpose of a prequel here.
The story line has been described by other reviewers. The important thing to convey about this book, other than that you should read it, is that the characters are so well contructed --they were fully developed people with normal human traits and flaws. I wanted to meet them! The mystery was good -- I always like them better when I can't figure out the culprits by chapter 3 -- and the police procedures descriptions were very interesting. Also liked the sidebar info about dyslexia (which is probably misunderstood and underdiagnosed). Amazing to find functional illiteracy at such high levels?!
I hope we see more of Will and Faith in subsequent books that I will not hesitate to read -- as long as there are no words like "Grant County" anywhere inside.....
Buy it!
Book Review: Another fine book from Slaughter; with a possibly hidden message?
Summary: 4 Stars
In her second book featuring Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Slaughter weaves a lean, taut tale that far surpasses the previous work featuring Trent -- Triptych -- and introduces a new character in Faith Mitchell; a tough, savvy, smart and aggressive cop who seems destined to continue into future works as Trent's partner.
Slaughter has a real talent for creating fully realized three-dimensional characters, with all the flaws and gifts that make each of them real and believable.
In this case, Trent's battle with dyslexia is explored in depth, and brings a new twist to the genre that is original and inventive, and used to great effect throughout.
It never occurred to me until I started writing this review, but Slaughter made an interesting decision in naming her characters, because in essence, this novel boils down to:
Can Will and Faith defeat Evil?