The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
★ ★ 

Years ago, Kirby was viciously attacked while playing with her dog at the beach. A man cut her throat and left her to die, leaving behind only a cigarette lighter to identify him. Somehow, despite all the odds, Kirby managed to survive. Years later, she begins using her internship at a local newspaper to begin hunting down her would-be killed with the help of Dan Velasquez. Dan used to be the ex-homicide reporter that covered the case and he reluctantly begins to help her pursue a killer straight out of time.

This was such a weird book. It was great at building characters you could connect with, like the shining girls and the scenes that featured there were by far the shining moments of the book. The rest falls rather flat. Harper is neither a compelling serial killer, nor one that inspires sympathy. It’s never really made clear why the house is sending him after these girls or how it even time travels in the first place. The unnecessary romance is also remarkably uninteresting. It was a great premise and there author obviously has talent in writing strong female characters, the rest of the book just needed that same amount of spark