27/02/18 21:03 (Tuesday Zzz)
Going to keep this brief, as I'm not wanting to go too much in depth with this one... you never know who's reading, or might read in the future! (Hello, future employers..?)
This book was recommended to me by GoodReads*, which by the way is a fab website if you like to read. On there you can give a rating of 1-5 stars to all of the books that you've read and from that they recommend new books that they think you'll like, and if you're interested they also show you where you can buy them fairly cheap. You can also link to your Facebook and see what your friends and family are reading, and create a 'want to read' list, so if you spot a book that your aunty Barbra is reading and you think it sounds good, you can add it to your list and not forget about it, like I always used to do.
Surprise surprise... this book is about a serial killer, although this is falls into the 'Erotic Thriller' genre. Thrillers in book form I'm all about, the Erotica though... not particularly my cup of tea. (No, I've never read 50 Shades and no, I don't plan to. Although I did watch the first film and it made me laugh really hard.)
So now that we've glazed over the genre, let me tell you that this book was so up my street, I picked it up on Monday and I had finished it by Thursday night. I wasn't sure whether I was confident enough to read it in public, but after the first few chapters I couldn't put it down, so I gingerly read it on the metro, I cautiously read it on my lunch break at work, and I got home and brazenly read it for half an hour after my dinner each night.
The book centres itself around Deanna Madden, a serial killer who locks herself away from the world and works as a camgirl under the pseudonym Jessica Reilly. Jessica has a number of clients, a lot of them absolutely bizarre and hilarious to read about, but has one who reveals a dark fantasy about a 6 year old girl named Annie. One day, Deanna hears on the news that a young girl of the same age and name has gone missing close to where this particular client lives, and she's faced with a moral dilemma when the authorities don't take her seriously.
One thing that I really loved about this was that within the first 1/3 of the book, there are a few short chapters (a page or three at most) which are from 6 year old Annie's perspective and in each she is interacting with an older male figure who would fit the description of Jessica's disturbing client. Torre keeps you guessing as to who the guilty man is - father, uncle or best friend's dad, and I found it very interesting that reading the short chapters with the premonition of one of the men being guilty, I straightaway presumed that each man was the antagonist, but once I found out who it actually was, I took the time to read each chapter back, and realised that a prejudice can go a long way in making someone seem evil.**
I'm struggling to find a critique for The Girl in 6E. The book was so well written, the plot was gripping and... wait for it... NOT PREDICTABLE. I hate so much when I get halfway through a book and everything from there goes down the predictable 'lovey-dovey, everything is perfect, love conquers all' direction, and honestly at one point around the halfway mark, I did think this book was going down that route, but thankfully it didn't (not too much, anyway). I didn't find it too gory, though I will say it's not for the faint hearted, especially the chapters about Jessica's cam sessions.
It's got a 4/5 from me, I'm so impressed and I found out thanks to good old GoodReads that there's a sequel, which I may well add to my want to read list.
L x
* #notsponsoredjustgood
** Life lessons from Laura x
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