Thank you so much to NetGalley for this ARC!
This is dark, and brilliant. It’s a mystery, three women trying to solve who is killing girls in their area, but they were also the wives of serial killers. This is where the book really stands out, the tiny mentions of what their lives were like before, the way society has treated them and the way they’re bound together by these experiences
The blurb on the ARC said that it was like if Taylor Jenkins Reid had written a thriller and I 100% agree, its got the same distinctive unusual main characters and matter of fact acknowledgement of the domestic abuse and violence in the world.
Romance – not applicable to rate.
Plot – 5/5 – it’s shocking and rapid packed, you never know who it is but it’ll take you by surprise!
Characters – 4/5 – the women slowly evolve to be their separate characters over the book even though they seem very similar in the beginning just like how the public all sees them.
World – 5/5 – its dark its gritty and its realistic, delving into 1950’s serial killers and the families destroyed by them.
Romance Rating – explicit but only in one lines. There isnt any romance in this book, but there are mentions and short descriptions of sexual actions (a line or two each).
Violence Rating: Level 6
Content Warnings: domestic violence, murder, imprisonment, sexism, gaslighting, rotting bodies (paragraph of description).
Damsel in Delight 