Lauren Beukes Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/lauren-beukes/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:25:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Lauren Beukes Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/lauren-beukes/ 32 32 38398750 July Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/07/july-reading-wrap-up-3/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/07/july-reading-wrap-up-3/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2020 04:16:48 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14643   Goodbye, July! My first full month of real summer in the Midwest. What I loved: fireflies, thunder and rain storms that last for hours. What is not so much: humidity that flattens me but makes my hair explode. And flies. So many flies! Why? The natural world aside, even with the increasing crazy that […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/07/july-reading-wrap-up-3/feed/ 2 14643 Broken Monsters https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/09/broken-monsters/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/09/broken-monsters/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2014 07:30:24 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3243   Lauren Beukes covered creepy in her debut The Shining Girls but it doesn’t compare to just how mess-with-your-mind she gets in her latest, Broken Monsters. As if Detroit hasn’t taken enough hits in the last decade it is now the setting for this scary tale of an amorphous monster creating gruesome art out of […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/09/broken-monsters/feed/ 3 3243 The Shining Girls https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/06/the-shining-girls/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/06/the-shining-girls/#comments Mon, 03 Jun 2013 07:41:10 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=1718   There was a lot of buzz at Book Expo America about Lauren Beukes’s new novel, The Shining Girls, and for good reason. The most often heard synopsis I heard was “Time Traveler’s Wife meets Silence of the Lambs”. If you’re squeamish that may be all you need to know but if you can handle […]

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