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The Shining Girls

Lauren Beukes

Hardcover | Pages: 368 pages

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Title	:	The Shining Girls
Author	:	Lauren Beukes
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	June 4th 2013 by Mulholland Books (first published 2013)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Horror. Science Fiction. Time Travel. Crime

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In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining girls: bright young women, burning with potential. Curtis stalks them through their lives across different eras until, in 1989, one of his victims, Kirby Mazrachi, survives and starts hunting him back. Working with a former homicide reporter who is falling for her, Kirby races against time and reason to unravel an impossible mystery.

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Original Title:	The Shining Girls
ISBN:	0316216852 (ISBN13: 9780316216852)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Chicago, Illinois,1931(United States) Chicago, Illinois,1992(United States) Illinois(United States)
Literary Awards:	Strand Critics Award for Best Novel (2013), British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award) (2014), Tähtivaeltaja Award Nominee (2014), CWA Gold Dagger Award Nominee for Shortlist (2013), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Mystery & Thriller (2013) Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2014)

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No, not the twins from the Kubrick movie, but the targets of a serial killer who finds a time portal in Chicago during the Depression and jackrabbits his way through recent American history, killing women and taking trophies. Until, that is, he encounters a tuff girl whos not so easy to do away with. Its the black-hole version of The Time Travelers Wife.

'Everything happens for a reason. He should be grateful. It's because he is forced to leave that he finds the House. It is because he took the coat that he has the key.'Harper stalks his Shining Girls through time and the House helps him. He visits the girls when they are children, takes mementos from them and tells them he'll be back for them when it's time. When that time comes, he leaves their bodies with a new memento, one taken from a different Shining Girl. His goal is to kill them all,

The one thing that impresses me the most about this book is the sheer ambition.I mean, it's a Mystery cat-and-mouse game told from killer who can hop through time from Depression Era through the early nineties, getting his depraved game of meeting little "shining" girls and coming back moments later when they're all grown up to brutally murder them.And then we also get a heavily researched and deeply characterized slew of female victims that reads more like a brilliant historical novel than what

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes, first published in 2013, is fascinating, almost hypnotic, for many reasons, but emphatically because its style and subject matter makes it an odd fit for clearly defined genres. Combining elements of horror, murder mystery, thriller, crime, and time travel fantasy this book finds itself on a unique bookshelf and Beukes demonstrates her rare gift of imagination and technical ability. Using a shifting perspective, jumping chronological narrative technique that

There's a lot for me to love about this book:1) The main character Kirby is fantastic. She is a survivor (literally), independent, courageous and determined, a bit of a smart ass with a smart mouth. But she's no mere Mary Sue, possessing vulnerabilities and flaws that make her uniquely "Kirby" and nobody else. I found her funny and totally sympathetic. Quite honestly, the entire novel pivots around her. Without her, the intricate house of cards the author builds would collapse in on itself at

Of course I have pet peeves, dont we all. I am bone weary tired of books being promoted as the next Gone Girl or worse still.just like The Secret History. So just to set the record straight this is nothing like Gone Girl and the only relation I can see to Stieg Larssons books is that there is a female survivor, who is not prepared to lay down. Then again a great many books have kick ass female survivors. The problem with this need to categorize some books as being similar to this or that is that

It's not easy to sell people on the concept of The Shining Girls, because every time I try to describe the plot, I can't do it without making this sound like the dumbest possible idea for a book. This is a story about a time-traveling serial killer. See? It sounds so dumb and so bad. And if you read it and came to the same conclusion, I would not blame you at all. But, much like the cranked-to-eleven lunacy of The Girl on the Train, this book just worked for me. In essence, this is a very, very