e-Audio, 09:07:24
Release Date: October 5, 2024
Published by: Spotify Audiobooks
Read from: October 29-31, 2024
Stand-alone
Source: Library’s Libby
Content Warning: Grief, Death of a Parent, Murder, Blood, Alcohol, Death, Bullying, Domestic Abuse, Confinement
For Readers Interested In: Thriller, Slasher Horror, True Crime, YAThe town of Wolf Ridge calls him The Smiley Face Killer. Bettina Holland calls him her father.
Everyone knows Bettina’s father was the one who murdered her mother a decade ago. It’s the subject of podcasts, murder tours, and even a highly anticipated docuseries. But after growing up grappling with what that means, a string of copycat murders forces Bett to answer a harder What if he didn’t ?
Old-money Bett must team up with the only person willing to investigate alongside bookish goth girl Eugenia, the mortician’s daughter, who everyone says puts the makeup on corpses. Can this “true crime princess” unmask a murderer who’s much closer to home than she ever imagined?
Gritty, gripping, and propulsive from page one, Dead Girls Talking is a ride for readers who love to see girls get their hands dirty as they claw their way to the truth. Peterson’s knife-sharp thriller cuts deep, with a wicked sense of humor, a wire-taut atmosphere, and a deadly serious approach to bigger transparency, justice, and female anger.
*MY THOUGHTS*
As soon as I heard this was about the daughter of a serial killer I had to get it in my hands immediately. I couldn’t exactly get into it when I was trying to read it with my eyes, but I finished it so much faster when I was reading it with my ears. And it just so happened I finished this on Halloween which made it even better.
So the mystery in this was crazy lol It was all over the place. And the craziest part was the family? They were so weird yo lol Everytime we found out something else about one of her family members I felt my mom dropping further and further. All of them had something that they should have unpacked before the next I guess phase in their life, but they didn’t. And real people were harmed because of it.
The culprit tho?! If you’re one of the ones who tries to guess who did it before, you can definitely figure out who did it, because I did. HOWEVER, I didn’t figure it out until the chapter or two before it was revealed. It was But I did feel weird af when it was revealed. But only because of the reasoning. I didn’t think the other person was involved at all, but they were and I hated it. Can’t we get something like this without the event that took place between the two?
I’m pretty sure I loved this because I love true crime so much. And let me tell you, this was definitely like I was looking at a tv show. It had so many twists and turns and it was all over the place. And the way the drama all played out was hella crazy. I was like biting my nails off when shit started to hit the fan. It was a mess lol
This was good enough for me to look up all the other things that Megan wrote. So basically I added another book to my TBR. True Crime in a book is all I needed to know. Give me everything now lol
Overall, I give this
