Gregor’s Reviews > The Good Daughter > Status Update

Charlie is probably one of my favorite representations of a survivor. Because she’s not nice. She’s not easy. She’s not timid. She’s so angry. Extremely relatable. I love her character so much.

Autistic icon Gamma.

I am trying to think of who could be the father to Kelly’s baby. I keep coming back to Huck. He denied it earlier but he was so protective of her when the cops were pinning her. Then again, it could just be that he knew she was a vulnerable girl and his former student.

I still think Heller/Pinkman is to blame here. Fundies are ALWAYS the bad guys in KS’s novels.

It’s getting fucking good. It’d be ever better if there’s no husband moping in the future and it remains in Sam’s perspective. If I have to hear one more time about the tragic emptiness of Ben’s key hook I will die.

I KNOW that fundie Mrs. Pinkman has something to do with this.

“They could be in a western, or a John Hughes movie if John Hughes had ever written about aggrieved, almost middle-aged women.”

Laughed for real.

I kind of thought Lenore might have been trans given the descriptions of her voice.

Very flawed representation. I could have sworn there was a section where she was described as having “man hands”. At the same time, the fact that she’s so maternal, that she’s consistently viewed as a woman by the sisters, is nice.

Please. Please do not let Lenore be the killer.

Karin Slaughter is addicted to making her heroines childfree, either by choice (Angie Polanski, Sam, the rich sister from Pretty Girls) or because of horrible tragedy (Sarah Linton, Charlie, Lena). She just really does not seem to like making her protagonists moms! Which I respect, for the record.

Okay so, WHY is Sam’s hair white? I don’t think a gunshot wound can do that. I’m assuming we’re dealing with some “rule of cool” here, which is fine.

God I’m a dummy. Sam is alive. The narrative poltergeist (of Sam, at least — Gamma is still haunting this book) has ended.

Sam’s husband sounds like an asshole.