The Shards
Book description
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged high school friends in a vibrantly fictionalized 1980s Los Angeles as a serial killer strikes across the city
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This book, with its 80s soundtrack throughout, is a murder mystery set in the filmic hills of Los Angeles.
A killer is stalking the streets, mansions, and nightclubs, leaving a trail of youthful bodies across a nostalgic la-la land. Ostensibly a true story experienced by the author himself, the story is well paced and thrillingly told. Overall I found it a highly addictive read. It’s a lengthy book but I actually wanted more.
Ellis’s prose immediately pulled me in and allowed me to inhabit the world of early 80s LA, and even better, put me into the head of a seventeen-year-old boy.
Nostalgic and dark, the repetitiveness of thoughts and events was like falling into a whirlpool of experiences I could never have. It was the perfect combination of nightmare, beauty, and carnality. Ultimately, it took me out of my own life, deposited me somewhere fantastic, faded, gorgeous, and dangerous, and let me feel and think in a completely different way from my own. When I was done, I felt I could easily…
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