We Are All Guilty Here

It was good to start a book of Karin Slaughter from the beginning, first book of a series since I was late starting the Trent books. I have to say I was disappointed somewhat. The book was very slow to get through. I liked the storyline. I liked how Emmy worked with her father. And she took over as sheriff. I felt for Emmy. It's hard to fill someone else's shoes that was so liked. Always having to prove to everyone including herself that she was good enough. 

My thoughts on the book, if you ever read Karin Slaughter, you already know she doesn't pull any punches, and this book is no exception. Right from the start she sets the mood by describing this bleak town as a place where people look for“an excuse to eat too much and drink too much so they can forget they were trapped inside this stinking wet turd of a town”. It's dark, it's gritty, and it instantly hooks you.

The mystery itself is really intense. It deals with some heavy stuff, like child abductions and how investigators work cases. I loved this realistic line about how crimes actually get solved.”It’s not that particularly clever. It’s that the bad guys panic and make stupid mistakes”.

But what I think I like the most about the book were the raw, honest conversations about what it is like growing up as a women and dealing with family. There were so many lines that made me stop and think, like “A man has to prove himself once. A woman has to prover herself every day”. And another one that really hit home about family was “ raising girls could kill a man, but he had no idea how fucking hard it was to grow yourself into a woman.”

The book also handles the incredibly sad, real- life side of dealing with a parent who has Alzheimers, and how how it feels like a constant clock ticking down on your family. This part hit incredibly close to home for me, having to take care of in some way both my parents when they went through it. Slaughter really captures that exact heavy reality perfectly. 

Even though all the heavy themes, Karin Slaughter still slides in her classic sense of humor. I actually burst out laughing at this quote about getting older. “They should call it fuckapause because you run out of all the fucks you can give.” I think a lot of us can relate to that!

I give We All Are Guilty Here 4 

And for that even though it was a good story it was a little heavy handed and so drawn out and slow. I'm hoping that the next book picks up