Fractured by Karin Slaughter
Fractured Why do I keep reading Karin Slaughter? So many of her books revolve around violence towards women or children and in the case of this book the first chapter was like living one of my worst nightmares yet I kept reading. I will tell you why I keep reading Karin Slaughter, even though the situations in a lot of her books make me sick to my stomach, she knows how to write a really interesting story that pulls the reader in. The reader is grabbed and the story never lets go no matter how horrible the situations. This book opens with a mother coming home to an open front door. She walks into her home which is supposed to be a safe haven to find her teenage daughter raped and murdered with a man standing over her covered in blood holding a knife. Reading this I could actually feel my stomach tighten and the tears sting my eyes as the fear of anything happening to my daughter over came me. I thought about not reading this book just because of that. Then the mother runs a