Karin Slaughter has proven herself to be a prolific queen in the art of crime writing. I've read each and every one of her previous novels, and once again this one did not disappoint. It grabs from the first page and leaves you panting for air at the end. Recommended!

The Good Daughter, the newest work from author Karin Slaughter, had me glued to each page from the very first chapter. Well-written and full of twists, turns, and emotion, I was kept transfixed to each page as I read.,,,and now I’m in total book hangover mode.

Two young sisters’ lives, Charlotte and Samantha, were ripped apart by an unimaginable violent moment. Everything they knew changed. Their family and relationship was forever altered and it would take another unimaginably violent event in the small town they grew up in to bring those broken pieces together.

Charlotte stayed in that small town while Samantha left and, even with years and miles between them, deep down I think they both knew one day they would be able to have a relationship again.

This story was told in a way that we got to see what happened to both sisters, both separately and together, that horrible night in their childhood and then brought to the current moment in time and see their lives today. As the case currently rocking their small town runs its course, their father will need both of them to work together to find the truth. The road to that truths has so many brilliant twists and turns. Written with hints and breadcrumbs along the way, leading us on a long and twisted path.

Added into the sisters’ search for the truth were messy emotions and complicated personal issues. A crumbling marriage, a loss of a spouse, infidelity, infertility, and many other relatable human moments.

Oh, and the characters themselves were superb. Brilliant, flawed, multi-faceted, quirky, real. I loved every one of them.

Man, this story was just phenomenal. Now, I will give you a bit of a warning that some of the descriptions are a bit graphic, but I wasn’t bothered by it as I felt it really drove home the horror of the moments these woman had lived through.

My final thought? This is one helluva great book! Thank you, Ms. Slaughter.

This book was brill, gripping right to the end. Loved the characters and the twists

This is my first Karin Slaughter book, what a huge mistake that has been, I am definitely going to be reading more!

An excellent thriller, that I literally couldn't put down, it was fast-paced and I loved it.

A full 5 stars from me for this one.

Karin Slaughter really know how to write a book that makes you feel chilled to the absolute bone!

This one is no exception.

She writes so well and completely pulls you in from the first word and spits you out after her last. Her books aren’t easy to read due to subject matters that she tackles but you are too entranced to stop reading.

I always look forward to her books and this was no exception.

Really enjoyed this book, I will definitely read other books by this author.

The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter - Wow this book had me hooked from page one right to the end. Hard hitting and descriptive, maybe not for the faint hearted. For the hardened crime/murder/thriller readers, brilliant.
"Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind".

I’m going to admit something here, something that I can’t quite believe to be true myself but this was my first ever Karin Slaughter novel! After reading it I can honestly say that it absolutely won’t be my last – in fact I’ve already bought a couple of her books and am really looking forward to reading them. This novel pulled me in from the very first chapter and it had me hooked right through to the very end. It’s a book that begins with a crime that happened years previously but now another crime has happened in the present day and it pulls back the people who were affected by the first. This is a crime thriller but it’s also an exploration of family dynamics and how people react in awful circumstances. It’s a novel that has stayed with me in the weeks since I read it and I recommend it.

This was an amazing book with so much information and detail. It is a story about a family who are struck by several disasters and the implications and effects it has on their future lives. A truly memorable book..

Wonderful standalone novel , immensely gripping and superbly written .
It certainly ticks all the boxes for me.

I requested this novel because it sounded so good and I was not disappointed at all! I loved the fact that this book was so intense. I also loved Slaughter's writing and the fact that she made this book so character driven, I thought it really added to the intensity of the book which made it a perfect mystery for me.

I enjoyed reading this but didn’t completely love it. The story follows sisters Charlie and Sam in a dual perspective plot who were caught up in a devastating attack in their childhood leaving them motherless and Sam horribly injured. As adults, Charlie, working as a lawyer under her father, witnesses a school shooting, and Sam returns to the place she thought she’d left behind.
Karin Slaughter is a much hyped author who I hadn’t actually read before so I was looking forward to this book, and I wasn’t disappointed. The story was very good, and I enjoyed the unfolding relationships between the sisters with each other and their father – it’s a strained relationship that seems very alien to me. The only thing it was lacking for me was the pace. Of course there has to be tension in a book like this, but it just left me dragging in the story occasionally – just a matter of preference for me!

I once struggled through a Karin Slaughter book, but as it was some time ago I thought things may have changed. They have - in that I gave up on the gratuitous gore fest this time.
The style and descriptive writing is really good, so at the end of the first slaughtering I continued because the story was intriguing, buy alas it just moved on to the next bloodbath,
Because of current conditions we all know what happens after a massacre and how far blood and bone can splash also that eyes can be blown out, but I find I still don't find this sort of entertaining.

A most intriguing read. Great one from this author and well worth it!

The Good Daughter

I think that a Karin Slaughter book is always s safe bet for a well written and entertaining read; The Good Daughter is no exception.

This is a fairly lengthy standalone thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat. It gripped me from start to finish with some amazing twists that left me spinning from dizziness! I thought the cover was stunning too. Five stars from purplebookstand.

I was lucky to be provided with an advanced copy of this book and voluntarily reviewed it.

This had so much potential, but it failed to live up to it. There's a great plot, and some outstanding moments of writing and some brilliant bits of dialogue, but also so much wrong. First, it's much too long - there is far too much rambling, far too much writing that does nothing to enhance character or plot development. The repeated blocks of narrative appear largely copied and pasted, rather than told from different perspectives. There are a couple of enormous plot-holes, and while the final twists are interesting, they aren't well-grounded in the rest of the book. There are several small inconsistencies, as well as a number of places where the writing choices were poor, tacky and/or just grammar errors. My biggest issue, however, is with the huge amount of exposition, which is mostly unnecessary and generally irrelevant.

Enjoyed this book by Karin Slaughter. The story was exciting and kept you hooked, really different from the norm.

A fast paced thriller/family drama that starts with a very close knit family being torn apart by murder and rape, seemingly instigated by a young male who was previously defended by the father and owed him money.

The book then moves forward 28 years in time to another murder in the local school of the same town. During the investigation of the school murders the reader is drawn into the lives of Rusty, the father and the two sisters Sam and Charlotte and how each has been severely affected by the early traumatic events.

A really gripping story that had me drawn into it from the very start. This is the first book by Karin Slaughter that I have read and I will certainly be looking out for more.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for providing me with this e-book for review.

I do love an unexpected outcome and this one didn't disappoint. Told separately through the eyes of the two sisters, each tells the side of the story she knows. We see how the horrors that unfolded in the girls' teens and the secrets they were forced to keep affected their adult lives. A well written and dark tale. I loved it

Another excellent tale from Karin Slaughter. You think you know the answers form the beginning but the plot twists and turns delightfully keeping you guessing and surprising you.
Sisters Charlie and Samantha's lives are torn apart by an appalling act of violence that leaves their mother dead and Sam just about.
Fast forward twenty eight years and Charlie witnesses another act of violence that devastess the small town where she has remained since childhood. Her father, Rusty, agrees to defend the perpetrator and so the story unfolds. Sam has been estranged from her family for years but returns of nececcity to support Charlie.
I engaged with the characters - a thoroughly good read!