- Mass Market Paperback: 528 pages
- Publisher: Angry Robot; Reprint edition (2 Sep 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0857660071
- ISBN-13: 978-0857660077
- Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 3.6 x 17.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,778,152 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Simply gut-wrenching"" - John Courtenay Grimwood
--SFX, June 2008
"With outstanding control, Warren manipulates Stevie's voice to create a portrait of horror that in no way reads like a first novel." --Publisher's Weekly
--SFX, June 2008
"With outstanding control, Warren manipulates Stevie's voice to create a portrait of horror that in no way reads like a first novel." --Publisher's Weekly
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Stevie is a Killer. But she brings her victims back to life again, to demand, "What do you see?" Now she's about to find out for herself. After an accident in which her mother dies, Stevie has a near-death experience, and finds herself in a room full of people - everyone she's ever annoyed. They clutch at her, scratch and tear at her. But she finds herself drawn back to this place, again and again, determined to unlock its secrets. Which means she has to die, again and again. And Stevie starts to wonder whether other people see the same room... when they die.
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When Stevie dies, she goes, not to a world of light and love but `the dark room' where those she has slighted wait to torture her. Psychotically knowing that hers is the only reality, she takes her victims to the brink of death, so she can ask then to, `tell me what you see.' When they don't see the dark room they are of course, lying. She is slighted, they deserve to die.
She takes a job in a hospice so she can be with the dying as they take their last breath, she makes several attempts at suicide, she digs in the garden, finding the truth about her `hero' father and herself.
A compulsive and hideous novel about a damaged individual's desire to emulate her bullying, controlling, adored father, the only person, she believes, who ever loved her.
One of the darkest things I've ever read.
She takes a job in a hospice so she can be with the dying as they take their last breath, she makes several attempts at suicide, she digs in the garden, finding the truth about her `hero' father and herself.
A compulsive and hideous novel about a damaged individual's desire to emulate her bullying, controlling, adored father, the only person, she believes, who ever loved her.
One of the darkest things I've ever read.
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What an excellent book. Author Kaaron Warren has created a facinating character in Stevie who is a serial killer (don't worry this fact is given on the back of the book cover). When she commits her murders she asks her victim "What do you see ?". This book is told from her point of view and Stevie is about to find out just what her victims "see".
Slights is set in Australia which makes a nice different setting to the usual settings of London, Manchester or New York. I hope we are going to see more novels from Kaaron Warren.
Slights is set in Australia which makes a nice different setting to the usual settings of London, Manchester or New York. I hope we are going to see more novels from Kaaron Warren.
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I read 'Slights' after finishing several horror novels, expecting much of the same, but found that this book doesn't fit into quite the same category. It was, at times, confused and bewildered, which may have been to track the emotion of the main character. However, I felt that she had no emotion, which made her a particular brand of sociopath. I'm not sure anyone is supposed to empathise with such a cold personality, lest they reveal their own misanthropic personality, but I did not share the 'disgust' I was led to expect from the cover, rather felt that it was impossible to build a relationship with such an anti-hero.
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A compelling and disturbing read
This is not a book I would usually read. It is not the type of book I would normally read. I am a simple man, with simple tastes. Read more
Published 12 months ago by IuchiAtesoro
Go into a dark room with a dark woman
Slights is one of the strangest books I've read in a while and one of the most entertaining - in an odd way. Read more
Published 13 months ago by seun
A slow read but enjoyable
The premise for this book was great and I was really looking forward to reading it. It turned out to be a slow read however. Read more
Published 17 months ago by RM Brown
Poppet reviews Slights
I'm not sure if my response is a normal one to a book about a serial killer, but if I could sum this up with one word - it would be - `beautiful'.
It is. Read more
It is. Read more
Published 17 months ago by poppet
Badly written and badly edited
This book is a rambling, first person account of her life by disaffected teenager Stevie, who (apparently) is a serial killer. Read more
Published 20 months ago by H. Ashford
Disturbing (but in a good way)
I really enjoyed this and flew through it in less than a week (which for me is really good!). The main character Stevie is equal parts tragic and unsettling. Read more
Published 23 months ago by S. Strong
Very strange!
The blurb makes this book sound rather terrifying, a serial killer who wants to see what they see in their dying moments. Read more
Published on 19 April 2010 by Gemma
Wishy washy... But not bad
Im torn whether to give this book a poor rating or a great one!
The writing itself is brilliant. Read more
The writing itself is brilliant. Read more
Published on 16 April 2010 by AnimaSola
Not bad, but could have been so much more
Since the potentially biggest plot twist is already revealed on the back cover of the book, I don't think I'm giving anything away by saying that trying to tell a story from the... Read more
Published on 14 April 2010 by H
Bloated and meandering character study
Essentially a character study of a female Australian serial killer, 'Slights' is a frustrating read, in that it promises much but ultimately delivers little. Read more
Published on 14 April 2010 by Jane Aland
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