FRACTURED. A hardcover book written by Karin Slaughter, published by Century

Essential Stats

Pages: 400
Published: Thursday 3rd July 2008
Dimensions: 24cm tall, 16cm wide, 5cm thick
Weight: 663 grams
ISBN: 1844138607
RRP: ~~£17.99~~
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Reviews

The second novel by Karen that features protagonist Will Trent. As you'd expect the book is skilfully written with Karen's trademark twists as well as gripping character attributes the really make this a difficult book to put down with you often thinking, just one more page. Yet whilst this is a second instalment its really a tale that can be picked up without having read the previous novel. Great prose, cracking pace and above all a story that will stay with you after you've finished the last page and will have you checking behind each door before going to bed.

...however as the story progresses it all gets a bit ploddy and I found myself losing interest as to whether the mystery is resolved or not.

Special Agent Will Trent and Detective Faith Mitchell are thrown together to unravel this case. Will features in 'Triptych' but in 'Fractured' Karin concentrates more on developing his character, more than one aspect of which is worked nicely in with the story. Both he and Faith are realistically written with interesting histories and mini plots of their own and and I liked their developing work relationship.

The message running through this novel is the importance of families and a feeling that you belong. Some characters having been denied a loving family, others not realising what they have until it's too late.

Whilst the momentum wasn't sustained throughout, it was still an enjoyable read and I'd definitely read the next novel featuring Will and Faith.

i have been a fan of karin slaughter's books for sometime and love her grant county series but i feel her will trent novels (fractured is the second in the series)don't hold the readers imagination enough and the characters don't have the same appeal to the reader. i feel that most of the characters appear hollow with no real depth and no significant likeable quality, unlike her grant county characters. i found the story interesting enough - its basically involves the brutal murder of teenage girl, with the addition of a law enforcement assumption, human error, kidnapping and the usual mystery surrounding it all and we should have had a quality thriller but it just doesn't make the grade i'm afraid. its worth a read but not on par with her grant county series

The plot is a not a new one. In fact a recent comparison would be Kernick's "Deadline" which I feel was written with more grit and interest than Slaughter has in this work.
The beginning was so promising with an explosive beginning and immediate twist. Afterward the plot seemed to plod along in an unspectacular way. I found this really surprising as Slaughter is a great writer who normally has the reader hooked right up to the end.
She does create strong characters and "Fractured" is no exception with Special Agent Will Trent and Faith Mitchell being expertly well-drawn throughout.
This was just lacking the usual talent of Slaughter - hopefully the next work will see her back to her true form.

Usually, I love books by Karin Slaughter. However, this book started out with a bang, got downright boring, then ended with a fizzle. Will Trent is a good guy, but this book didn't bring out traits that made him interesting. I was totally disappointed with this book/\.

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