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A review by findingmontauk1
True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
5.0
This is brutal on so many levels. But WOW! TRUE CRIME delivers a story of abuse, identity, death, and so much more. This novella is quite literally packed full of themes and lessons - I believe a whole course could be taught with this story as its backbone. Samantha Kolesnik has put together something so gritty and dark, but at the same time full of many psychological truths, questions, and conversations that are begging to be explored. To tell you that my mind was racing back and forth from thought to thought between paragraphs, pages, or chapters is an understatement.
I am actually quite ready (although NOT ready... if you know, you know) to read this again. Having digested the general story and characters at this point makes going back again more of a quest for understanding and examining the smaller moments. Suzy, our main character, has a head full of intense thoughts that deserve to be unraveled and dissected. Is she the monster or the victim? Is she both? CAN you be both? She has been through so much in her short life that it just makes you think about and question so many things!
Reading this book gave me The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum vibes. And I do not mean that in terms of the plot, but in the raw, bleak brutality of it all. And I hope that comes across as the compliment that I mean for it to be because... WOW! This book may not be for everyone, but I know it will be with me for quite some time. The fact that Kolesnik can write so beautifully about something so tragic and dark is a skill that deserves all the recognition!
I am actually quite ready (although NOT ready... if you know, you know) to read this again. Having digested the general story and characters at this point makes going back again more of a quest for understanding and examining the smaller moments. Suzy, our main character, has a head full of intense thoughts that deserve to be unraveled and dissected. Is she the monster or the victim? Is she both? CAN you be both? She has been through so much in her short life that it just makes you think about and question so many things!
Reading this book gave me The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum vibes. And I do not mean that in terms of the plot, but in the raw, bleak brutality of it all. And I hope that comes across as the compliment that I mean for it to be because... WOW! This book may not be for everyone, but I know it will be with me for quite some time. The fact that Kolesnik can write so beautifully about something so tragic and dark is a skill that deserves all the recognition!