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So Much Pretty (2011)

door Cara Hoffman

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Five months after she disappeared, Wendy White's body is found in a ditch just off one of Haeden's main roads. Suddenly, reporter Stacy Flynn has a big story, but no one wants to talk to her in this small upstate New York town. Then fifteen-year-old Alice Piper, an imaginative student with a genius IQ and strong ideals, begins to connect the dots of Wendy's disappearance and death when a second crime rocks the town to its core.… (meer)
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    Mannen die vrouwen haten door Stieg Larsson (cafepithecus)
    cafepithecus: Another book about men who hate women, and the women who take them down.
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    In koelen bloede door Truman Capote (kirsty)
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i decided to read this book because i saw someone say that the author got told that it was "too angry". the world doesn't like angry girls. and it especially doesn't like angry girls who won't shut up. i am often an angry girl; so, i grabbed the book. i had a vague idea of the plot going in, but i didn't expect everything i read. i guessed a few of the twists, some not until right as they were being revealed, but that's not what's important about this book. many of the lines hit me hard (as a pretty socially conscious woman, not a lot of it was new information) but they still hit me regardless. but, what jumped out at me the most, was,

It would hardly be rational to accept that I live inside a thing made of flesh that people capture, hide, and then wait in line to rape.

and,

Wendy White was raped, killed, and dumped. Men raped her, men killed her, men dumped her, men found her, men are examining her remains, men are looking for the men who did it. Then the men who did it will be represented in court by men, and a man will make the decision based on laws men made throughout the legal history of this country.

this is an angry book. it's angry for a damn good reason. ( )
  banrions | Dec 7, 2021 |
The writing style was difficult to get used to. Some parts are written wonderfully while others have choppy sentences and incomplete fragments. I personally think there were too many character prespectives (or the way the author chose to organize them wasn't the best idea) making it hard to follow. It jumps from first to third person between sections, which also adds to the confusion.

The story line was actually good and pushed me to finish the book but I feel like the author didn't connect the plot. I think more of the parts could of been connected to together to make more sense, otherwise I feel like I was reading three or four completly different stories. ( )
  samsamabrasam | Oct 15, 2020 |
I received this as a Good Reads first reads giveaway. My edition has a white cover.

I found this book hard to get into initially. Once I figured out the story had several narrators, it started to come together for me. Ultimately, the story about how a woman went missing and then found dead involves many people. It brings up issues regarding personal accountability and the impact of various social ideals and the dangers of imposing those ideas onto others. It also reinforces a well-known fact that most crimes against woman are by people they know and that "stranger danger" is most likely the people with whom you live, work, befriend and trust. I was left still pondering the story long after I had finished, thus the author's intention. Sometimes, stories don't have neatly wrapped up "happily ever after" endings, that can often be predictable and expected.

Don't let the layout of the book turn you away or frustrate you. If you keep with it you will discover the purpose and an incredible story based on a real criminal case.

Http://bookwormreviewblog.blogspot.com ( )
  marquis784 | Feb 15, 2020 |
****PLEASE NOTE I WON THIS FROM A GOODREADS GIVEAWAY****

I didn't get into this book nearly as much as I thought I would. There were just too many perspectives and too much going on for me to really get into it. I don't have the book with me to go into as much detail as I would like to, but let's just say it wasn't all that gripping.

I did enjoy Alice, as a character, but I didn't feel for her as much as I would have liked toward the end of the novel. Plus there seemed to be a lot of information missing. I would have liked to see more of her parents background, told in a more concrete way. Since the plot line went chapter by chapter told by each different perspective, and it went forwards and backwards in time often, it was hard to get a sense of buildup.

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  Melissalovesreading | Sep 30, 2018 |
Devastating. ( )
  woolgathering | Apr 4, 2017 |
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Five months after she disappeared, Wendy White's body is found in a ditch just off one of Haeden's main roads. Suddenly, reporter Stacy Flynn has a big story, but no one wants to talk to her in this small upstate New York town. Then fifteen-year-old Alice Piper, an imaginative student with a genius IQ and strong ideals, begins to connect the dots of Wendy's disappearance and death when a second crime rocks the town to its core.

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