{"id":18474,"date":"2021-11-19T20:29:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T01:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=18474"},"modified":"2024-02-26T18:54:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T23:54:45","slug":"dead-dead-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/18474","title":{"rendered":"Dead Dead Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dead Dead Girls<\/a><\/em> (2021) Nekesa Afia (Harlem Renaissance Mystery)<\/p>\n

\"Dead<\/a>Set in Harlem, NYC in 1926<\/p>\n

Louise Lloyd became famous as a teenager, when she escaped a man who had kidnapped her and two other girls–girls who would have been ignored because they were Black and in Harlem.<\/p>\n

Ten years later, someone is killing young women, and Louise is drawn unwillingly into the case.<\/p>\n

First, the story is blunt in the issues that Louise and her friends would have dealt with at the time. (And, to be honest, even today.)<\/p>\n

\u201cI can make your charges go away, but you have to do something for me.\u201d <\/p>\n

Louise\u2019s heart leapt in her throat. She scanned the little room. She knew he could overpower her if he tried. He was twice her size, tall and broad. He would win in a fight. He could do anything to her and she wouldn\u2019t be able to stop him. No one would believe her. Not again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am still uncertain about my rating of this book. I had a very hard time putting it down, but I wasn’t enamored of the writing style–mostly the leaps in time and place, and that Louise makes in her thought processes. <\/p>\n

This wasn\u2019t who she wanted to be. Someone who snuck around, broke into places, snooped through other people\u2019s things. But now that she had become this person, she found it rather exhilarating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I had to reread this bit a couple times, because it was so abrupt that Louise decided she was a detective.<\/p>\n

This wasn’t bad per se, it just tended to throw me out of the story.<\/p>\n

I also wasn’t sure if we were supposed to know who the killer was or not–and I wasn’t quite sure why and why Louise made up her mind as to who the killer was.<\/p>\n

And I really didn’t understand the connection between the killings in 1926 and the kidnappings in 1916. Were there killings in 1916? If so, why was there a ten year pause? If not, what prompted the kidnappings and then killings in 1926? Yes, Louise wouldn’t necessarily have learned these things, but I found them frustrating.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Berkley<\/p>\n

Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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