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Skin Privilege by Karin Slaughter

7 reviews

ksuppes's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Abortion, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I started the Will Trent series first, which was a spin off from the Grant County series. It took a long time to get here, but I finally know what happened to Jeffrey, but it wasn’t as satisfying as I’d hoped it was going to be, mostly because all the references to it in all the other books built up a lot more plot than I got in the end.

Also, no matter how pathetic Lena and her circumstances are made, she is still infinitely unlikeable. She is possibly one of my least favorite characters in ask the books I’ve read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

siobhanward's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

 

I didn't love this book and then really hated the ending... To learn that was how Slaugther chose to wrap up a whole series is what dropped this to a single star. I can't speak for how the rest of the series is, but I'm glad I read this one first - if I'd worked through the whole series and this is how it ended, I would have been livid.

Anyway, this book was typical for Slaughter, but definitely weaker than what I've read from her before. Her penchant for torturing women was a lot less pronounced in this book, so I will give her credit for that, but that was the only redeeming quality. I didn't care much for the characters, there were plot lines that went nowhere and were irrelevant to most of the story and moving through time made the plot hard to follow. I get using time/scene jumps for drama, but in this case, it just made it hard to follow.

I think now that I've gotten a bit more into the crime/thriller genre, especially in terms of series, I'm learning some authors are just not worth reading everything from, and Slaughter might be one of those.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Gun violence, Medical content, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Sexual content, Car accident, Abortion, and Pregnancy

amieleigh8919's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Racism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, and Murder

jackbifrost's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Abortion, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Excrement, Vomit, and Lesbophobia

abbs15norm's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

wordsofclover's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

it's going to take me a while to get over that ending.
What the actual f***

Skin Privilege is the last Grant County book and this time we follow police chief Jeffrey Tolliver and his wife Sara Linton as they travel to a neighboring town to help out police detective Lena who has been found at the scene of a crime. A woman has been brutally murdered, and the town itself is overrun with meth dealers. But with Lena on the run, and Jeffrey and Sara in the dark, can they figure out how to save her and themselves before it's too late?

For the last book in this series, the main investigation in this book was a little bit off in comparison to the other books. The kill and the reasons behind the brutality didn't feel as tight or as polished as some of the other crime investigations in the previous book, and I definitely feel like the author just wanted us to once again come back around to Lena and her life, and this seemed to be the best way to do it.

It probably didn't help enjoyment levels that Lena is the worst character in this book, and my least favourite in the book. Every time you think she's improving, she backtracks about 10 steps and this time she brought Jeffrey and Sara with her. She's right in this book when she says everything she touches turns to crap because god, it really does. She genuinely is the worst thing to happen to Jeffrey and Sara, even if it's unintentional.

And the ending. Omg that ending. I knew it was coming - there was so much foreshadowing throughout the book and a sense of dread, I knew it had to come. But in the last two pages. Right when they got the best news and they were at such a wonderful, pivotal point in their lives and they were so goddamn happy. I just don't see the point, I really don't. Yes, the series is dark and goes to places where you do wonder if an author should really go there but that doesn't mean the characters aren't allowed a scrap of happiness. It's honestly one of the worst, emotionally manipulative endings in a book I've read in a long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, and Violence