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Book Review #23
‘WKTM” has no waffle: it is brutal, baroque and ends with a brilliant last-minute twist. It’s no secret that we like our crime novels dark and disturbing, this one hints at horrific acts of a child who turns into a “Psychopath” and quite gruesome murder scenes. Moitrayee writing style strikes exactly the right balance between too lurid and too nebulously glossing over at the other, so that the scenes can play out vividly without crossing boundaries that would turn suspense into obviousness – and still maintain the shock value I have come to expect from books in this genre.
The main character Shagun, is a twisted psychopath, a pathological liar, and a vicious killer: an intensely and unquestionably brutal woman. At the same time she’s a compelling lady—even as we hate her we feel a kind of pull toward her, even an empathy with her. She’s smarter than everyone around herself.
Detective Ray is the second lead in the story, because the career she had brought her into close contact with many aspects of crime, she strove to understand all the intricacies and facets of criminal behavior. Ray is a perfectionist in her field who works incredibly hard. Without defining her intelligence, imagination, and compassion towards the case the story would have been useless.
Overall, the author was able to balance horrible, dark deeds unflinchingly, with profound moments/messages that serve as emotional underpinnings to her work. It is the author’s gift to make the murders understandable in response to a childhood that should never have been allowed to occur.
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