Pieces Of Her by Karin Slaughter was a thriller narrated in two different time lines by a mother and daughter. A violent encounter with a killer in a restaurant has a devastating effect on their relationship and Laura tells her daughter Andrea that she must leave town. The story then goes back in time 32 years to a woman called Jane who is working with a group of terrorists.
Although I enjoyed parts of this book, I found it disjointed and I didn't enjoy it as much this authors previous books.
I would like to thank NetGalley and HarperCollins UK for my e-copy in exchange for an honest review.

would like to thank netgalley and the publisher for letting me read this amazing book

karin slaughter can write a book that keeps you reading till the early hours and makes you feel as if you have been on a rollercoaster ride...

this book starts off slow and then suddenly wham you wonder if you are reading the same book as its so full of action and intrigue...

a story that has everything...several forms of abuse, tension, violence and betrayal...and how one person can manipulate another and then finally the victims who survive barely....

a brilliant one of book by this author

A fantastic read. Thoroughly enjoyed this and it is not something I would usually pick up. Will look for more from this author in future.

Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for a copy of this book.

Karin Slaughter you've done it again. Absolutely, fab.

I really didn't like Andy at the beginning but by the time she's on the run I kind of like her and she grows on you. But Laura............... loved her from the beginning. The story is fast paced, detailed and has you on the edge of your seat. You really need to go and buy this for your summer read!

5 starts from me

Karin Slaughter books are very moreish, and Pieces of Her is no exception.
After six years of McJobs in New York, Andrea has come home to live with her mother. She has a job as a police despatch officer, and is meeting her mum for a birthday meal in the local diner. Her mum, Laura, is a doctor.
A gunman comes in, quickly killing two people. He intends to commit ‘suicide by cop’, thinking Andrea is a real police officer. Instead, Laura springs into action and prevents the gunman from any more killing. In doing so, she demonstrates a set of skills no one knew about.
In that instant, their lives are changed forever. Life becomes very dangerous, and Andrea must go on a journey to find out the truth. She won't know who to trust, or where is safe.
This is a terrific thriller that left me glued to the page. Four stars.

Pieces of her is I feel a much different type of book from this author, although an engrossing enough read the problem I had was that there were no likeable characters that you wished to see good things happen to.
Andrea is out with her mother Laura at the mall when a gunman starts shooting at people, Laura suddenly shows a side of her that astonishes everyone when she disarms the gunman and kills him.
The secrets Laura has been hiding puts her and Andrea in great danger, sending Andrea on a journey of discovery. The book shifts from the present to Laura's past so we learn first hand what acts Laura has done for her keep hidden from her family.
Unfortunately Andrea annoyed me greatly, incapable of finishing sentences or making a decision for the first half of the book, I didn't feel she did much better in the second half either to be honest and also by then I didn't much care. Laura's past also does nothing to make you want to be on her team either.
It wasn't a bad story at all but as I usually love this authors work for some reason I was disappointed in this....too spoilt by the lovely Will Trent !

At first, I wasn't really sure if I was going to like this book, especially not when the POV changed and we went back into the past. I didn't like Jane's chapters that much, but throughout the story, I learned to appreciate the backstory. In fact, near the end, I kind of wished the story had been from her POV instead of Andy's. Not that that part of the story was boring, I just realised I wanted more of Jane's story instead of Andy's. In the end, I really enjoyed this book and I definitely recommend it to everyone who wants a thrilling story that keeps you up until way past your bedtime when you need to get up early for work the next day.

My thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for an ARC.

Karin Slaughter is one of my favourite authors. From Blindsighted to The Good Daughter, which is my favourite book, I always know I’m never going to be disappointed.

Having said that, I did struggle with the first part of Pieces Of Her.
Andrea & her mother, Laura, are at the mall when a moment of violence changes everything. Hours later, with her mother all over the news, Andrea begins to question everything she knows about her life & Laura.

Set in the modern day, with flashbacks to 1986, we start to pick up the pieces that link the two stories together & by the second part of the book, I was hooked. One moment I was reading it thinking, ‘hmm a bit bored of this book’ & then wham, it took over & I was complaining because my dinner break was over, I had to go back to work & I didn’t want to stop reading.

So you need perseverance with this book, plough through because it is worth it.

I had high hopes for this book. Karin Slaughter is such a well known and respected author whose books I have loved over many years.
Pieces of Her was just one of those books I couldn't connect with, I really just couldn't get into the story. Maybe it's not my time to read this book, and I will at some point go back and give it another go.
It just wasn't really for me.

Another standalone from Karin Slaughter and possibly one of my favourite books of hers so far.

A cross between a fast paced page turner and insightful psychological thriller, this was one I read fast, so caught up was I in Andy's story as she tries to put together the pieces of her Mother and discover the truth about her background. 

We have past and present colliding as Laura saves the day but in doing so exposes herself to some dangerous people. Daughter Andy gets caught up in the aftermath, sending her on a scarily dangerous road trip to answers.

As we learn what secrets lie in Laura's past it is utterly compelling, often edge of seat thrilling and beautifully plotted to keep things unexpected and addictive. 

As usual Karin Slaughter brings huge depth to her characters and sets the scene with aplomb. Pieces of Her is an incredibly powerful novel exploring themes of family and human nature, as such it is hugely fascinating and just proves that this author is right at the top of her game.

Brilliant crime fiction. Highly recommended

Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for this arc in exchange for my honest review.

Andrea is having lunch with her mum, laura, when a shooting takes place in the coffee shop and her mother saves her life by killing the gunman. Laura sends Andy away after another brutal attack and Andy is on the run for answers to find out who her mother actually is.
The book jumps from the present to decades earlier in Laura's life explaining her story.
I am a huge Karin Slaughter can but sadly for me this didn't tick the boxes and I was bored.

When Andrea Cooper an£ her mother Laura get caught up in a shooting inside a coffee shop, their whole lives begin to unravel and Andrea realises everything she thought she knew about her family was a lie.

With two interlinked stories, this is a typical fast-paced, edge of your seat thriller from Karin Slaughter. Absolutely spellbinding.

Karin Slaughter is one of my go-to authors for smart, emotive and dark thrillers - but this one? Not so much. Something about this whole book just didn't work for me: the writing feels muddied and lacking in clarity; the characters, especially the daughter who is 31-going-on-13, don't really make psychological sense; and the story seems to be driven by in-your-face twists rather than the more carefully planned emotional trajectories of the previous books.

Most of all, previous Slaughter books have made me <i>feel</i>; this one left me distanced and untouched. Where is the wit, humour and laugh-out-funny moments that have always lightened the previous books? The smartness about women in what is still primarily a man's world?

After so many hits, I guess Slaughter is allowed a miss...

I have to say I’m a Karin Slaughter, having read and loved all her previous novels. Pieces of her is excellent. Andy is in a diner with her mother Laura when a shooter comes in. From there Andy’s view of her mother changes and sets out to find the answer of who her mother was. Told from two POV, Andy in the present and someone from the past. Will Andy uncover her mothers past before their future is destroyed.
How good was this? Well I was sat on my lounge floor just past midnight waiting for My Kindle to have enough power to turn back on so I could read the final chapter as I has read for so long the battery had run out.
Karin’s Next novel will be at the top of my to read pile and if you haven’t read any of her books yet this is a brilliant one to start with!

Laura has a past that she has kept hidden for thirty years. One day she is attacked in a diner with her daughter and it is captured on a mobile which is then sold to the media. Her face is all over the news. It won't be long before they come for her. Laura has to protect her daughter at all costs.
Laura is attacked in her own home and her daughter Andrea walks in and saves her mother by killing her attacker. The last words her mother says to her is she has to make her way to a storage unit in Carllington and RUN. Andrea is now on a journey where she finds out that her mother is a liar and a killer. By the end of her journey she will realise what a mother will do to protect her daughter.
This book was rollercoaster of a thriller. I loved it.
I would like to thank the author Karin Slaughter, Harper Collins UK and Net.galley for giving me the opportunity to read this book in return for giving an honest review.

Great novel. Initially threw me with the trip back in time, but enjoyed watching the story unfold using the mother/daughter viewpoints. Great twists, keeling the reader guessing to the final pages

I have a huge fan of Karin Slaughter, especially her Will Trent series and Pretty Girls. Pieces of Her was good but it wasn't in the same league as those. The characters are unique and well developed but i found the story dragged in many places and found some aspects hard to follow. It didn't really feel like a Karin Slaughter book, a problem i had with her last book The Good Daughter.

The story is told from two very different points of view, Laura’s in 1986 and Andrea’s in the present day bringing together a plot so full of twists and turns that it leaves you checking back through the book to make sure you’ve got the storyline straight!

This isn’t your typical Karin Slaughter book, no gruesome murders and psychotic serial killers on the loose this time. This time the storyline is slightly more sinister in some respects, dealing with a wanna be cult leader and the power of people’s believes, how far human nature can be manipulated and how far we are willing to go to protect our children, family and loved ones.

1986 – Martin Queller, head of the Queller Healthcare and Queller Correction and his 3 children, Jane (Jinx), Andrew, Jasper and Andrew’s best friend, Nick Harp – charming, handsome, charismatic and full of ideals wanting to change the world, and the only way to change it is to destroy it first.

2018 – Laura and her daughter Andrea, a quiet family living by the sea until their world gets spun on its axis by getting caught in the middle of a shooting in a restaurant. As they witness people getting shot Andrea freezes and fear paralyses her, unlike her mum! Laura protects her daughter by putting herself in the line of fire and the situation resolves in a way no-one saw coming!

As Andrea begins to realise there is more to her mother than she knew, the only way to keep both herself and her mother safe is to dig back through a past that she never knew existed.

Switching between past and present the truth slowly starts to unravel and the two timelines start to come together in ways you probably won’t expect!

As I’ve already said, this book is unlike her previous novels, taking a more political, morel path dealing with corruption, terrorism and family bonds which all in all made for some really good reading but for me personally this isn’t her best book! Sorry! My heart is still back in Grant County!!

If you are new to Karin Slaughter’s work then you will want to go back and read the rest of her novels after this one, and trust me, they are definitely worth reading! Or if you are already a fan of hers you will love this book and it goes to show the level of talent she possesses!