The Shining Girls: A Novel

I had heard good things about this book, so I really wanted to like it, but I just didn't. The writing was passable, but Harlan's motives for hunting the Shining Girls were sort of nebulous, and there wasn't a lot of explanation about why they "shined" or why he felt the need to hunt them other than that he was obviously mentally ill. The book's grasp of nonlinear time and the idea of time paradoxes was non-existent and all of Harlan's motives seemed to be fueled by the idea that he needed to do the things he did because he knew had already done them. On top of not really grasping the complexities of the effects of time travel in a book that was solely about time travel, the story was wholly predictable and involved enough detailed descriptions of animal cruelty that I almost put it down without finishing it several times.

Really good!

Well.. we tried lol DNF