Kristy McGinnis

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Kristy spent her childhood as a Navy "brat" and her adult years first as a service member and then as a Coast Guard wife. A lifelong wanderer and now emptynester, she's set permanent anchor in Virginia Beach, Virginia with her husband and that most rascally of rascals- her cat Percy. When not plucking away at her keyboard or eagerly devouring every book she can get her hands on; she enjoys theater, beach combing, hiking, wine tasting, and obsessively planning the next journey. ...more

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Kristy McGinnis and 121 other people liked Stacey's review of Pretty Girls:
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
"What this book has going for it is it's hard to put down. Despite a fair amount of repetition, it's well written, and certainly started out as a compelling mystery. Unfortunately, it's also disgusting, frustrating, ridiculous and, at least for the se" Read more of this review »
Kristy McGinnis and 175 other people liked Michelle's review of Pretty Girls:
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"This book is a tesla commercial with a side helping of urinary water boarding"
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"Unpopular opinion but I didn't like this book. I did listen to it as an audiobook which might not have been the best idea.

Karin Slaughter is on my never reading again list. While her books are quite popular, I find them too sexually violent for me. I" Read more of this review »
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Kristy McGinnis and 1772 other people liked Basil Sidebottom's review of Pretty Girls:
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"Here's the thing.

The book is full of torture porn. It's about 400 pages and I'd say 1/4 is straight up, highly detailed repetitive torture porn. That's about 100 pages describing women being tortured, raped and murdered. And cut up.

This isn't your ru" Read more of this review »
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Brilliant and beautiful.

I did the audiobook version, of which I am so grateful because Meryl Streep was perfection.

As has been mentioned a gazillion times, the play Our Town is woven firmly into this story. this isn't happenstance. While it's the obv
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Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover
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I think that sometimes people are good story tellers, and sometimes people are good writers. Occasionally they're great at both things. Colleen Hoover is a good story-teller. As a fan of redemption arcs, I really liked the premise of this story. I th ...more
" Some comparable reads- Crawdads, We Are All The Same In The Dark, Reminders of Him. So, psychological fiction melded with literary fiction.

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“Sanitized, cleaned, my house was a mausoleum and the ghost it housed was me.”
Kristy McGinnis, Ellipsis

“So bitter is the taste in my mouth, when I remember making that choice.”
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“At what point was it morally reprehensible to bring a life into a chaotic, toxic world?”
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“There is the sanity you feel, and there is the sanity you display. Most people don’t really care about the first one; they just wanted permission to avoid your crisis.”
Kristy McGinnis, Ellipsis

“The words he couldn’t quite say out loud, would spill out in amber, copper, and red from the mouth of his brush. His paintings said I love you. I love you and I won’t leave you.”
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“As humans, our sense of doom is grossly overstated in literature and movies.”
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“The worst is what happens when you’re blithely going about the dogged routine of your life, those moments when you’ve forgotten to have a guard up at all.”
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“Sanitized, cleaned, my house was a mausoleum and the ghost it housed was me.”
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