A review by eleanor_rose22
Penance by Eliza Clark

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A fantastic, compulsive, compelling, page-turner, I couldn’t stop thinking about it, so genuinely believable and intensely detailed that I was hooked to each page. The layers of ‘unreliable narrator’ that comes through in this true-crime fiction is so cleverly done, and the critique of true-crime fandoms/franchise - of murder made into entertainment, of grisly appetites, of killers into idols - is superb. Also the ‘muddy rage of girlhood’, esp rooted   rooted in rural British 2015 was so real and raw to me, personally. Eliza Clark the mind you have, I am in awe 
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