- Paperback: 528 pages
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007322429
- ISBN-13: 978-0007322428
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 11.2 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 697,420 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Simply gut-wrenching" - John Courtenay Grimwood
-- SFX, June 2008
-- SFX, June 2008
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Stevie is a killer. When she kills people she asks them: "WHAT DO YOU SEE?" She's about to find out...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 pissed off. 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 she starts to wonder whether other people see the same room! when they die. The most disturbing novel of 2009. Read it if you dare. FILE UNDER: Horror [Real-Life Terror / Damaged Lives / Family Secrets / Beyond Death]
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Completely riveting,
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This review is from: Slights (Paperback)
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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.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent novel by Australian author Kaaron Warren,
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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.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A tale of alternate amorality.,
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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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