First Read of the Year: Bright Young Women
This was a really surprising first book of the year for me. I thought about making it my last book of 2023 but it was too clean and nice to end the year at 115 books instead of 116 š I just took a little reading break for a few days as we ushered in the new year and I got over being sick. BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN follows two women on opposite coasts affected by the same serial killer. Pamela’s sorority house is broken into – two girls are murdered and two are gravely injured, and she is dealing with the fallout as sorority president and friend to these girls. She soon encounters Tina, a woman who believes she knows who the killer is… Her friend Ruth (the other POV we get in the book) was one of his victims before he made his way from Washington to Florida. As you may be able to tell, this story is based broadly on Ted Bundy and his horrible acts across the US. I was on the fence about reading this book and hadnāt even marked it as āto readā on Goodreads when I bought it on a whim at the store and started it within the week. I donāt follow serial killer true crime stories or podcasts because the victims arenāt at the forefront so my only knowledge of the man āfeaturedā in this book was the Zac Efron movie (watched only because of said actor). This reads like a true […]