[Review] Little Threats - Emily Schultz



Tittle: Little Threats 
Author: Emily Schultz
File size: 2234 KB
Publication date: November 10, 2020
Print length: 381 pages
ASIN: B081M7XF8G
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons 
Page numbers source ISBN: 0593086996
Language: English


SYNOPSIS

Both a taut whodunit and a haunting snapshot of the effects of a violent crime, Little Threats tells the story of a woman who served fifteen years in prison for murder...and now it's time to find out if she's guilty.

In the summer of 1993, twin sisters Kennedy and Carter Wynn are embracing the grunge era and testing every limit in their privileged Richmond suburb. But Kennedy's teenage rebellion goes too far when, after a night of partying in the woods, her best friend, Haley, is murdered, and suspicion quickly falls upon Kennedy. She can't remember anything about the night in question, and this, along with the damning testimony from a college boy who both Kennedy and Haley loved, is enough to force Kennedy to enter a guilty plea.

In 2008, Kennedy is released into a world that has moved on without her. Carter has grown distant as she questions Kennedy's innocence, and begins a relationship with someone who could drive the sisters apart forever. The twins' father, Gerry, is eager to protect the family's secrets and fragile bonds. But Kennedy's return brings the tragedy back to the surface, along with a whole new wave of media. When a crime show host comes to town asking questions, believing the murder wasn't as simple as it seemed, murky memories of Haley's death come to light. As new suspects emerge and the suburban woods finally give up their secrets, two families may be destroyed again.





I don't know how to begin this review, but I expected so much from this book that when I finished it I wanted to give myself some time to let it rest and that my opinion wasn't influenced by how little I liked it that in the end I forgot to do the review at the time.

As I said before, the synopsis caught me as soon as I read it and when I received the copy of the book I was very happy that I started it right away, but it was so slow that what I thought would take me one or two days to read it was spreading because it didn't catch me the way i was expected. I don't understand why Kennedy doesn't try and fight to find the truth or at least be sure that she is really guilty of the murder she was accused of and locked up, but of course I imagine that the author puts her in that resigned mode so that what we discover happens that fateful night in the end make a little sense, no much but works for the closing of everything here.

The story seemed to improve almost at the end and I personally like that this kind of genre to catch me from the beginning.

I still recommend to read it, my opinion doesn't have to coincide with the rest so maybe I'm the one who didn't know how to get into this story.

Thanks to Netgalley for providing me with a copy of the book in exchange for an honest opinion.

Until next time :)






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Emily Schultz is the co-founder of Joyland Magazine. Her newest novel, Little Threats, is forthcoming from GP Putnam's Sons for Summer 2020. Her novel, The Blondes, released in the U.S. with St. Martin’s Press and Picador, in France with Editions Asphalte, and in Canada with Doubleday. It was named a Best Book of 2015 by NPR and Kirkus. The Blondes was produced as a scripted podcast starring Madeline Zima (Twin Peaks), Helen Hong (Inside Llewyn Davis), and Rob Belushi (How I Met Your Mother). It was created by Schultz and Brian J Davis.

​Her writing has appeared in Elle, Slate, Evergreen Review, Vice, Today's Parent, Hazlitt, The Hopkins Review, and Prairie Schooner. She lives in Brooklyn where she is a producer with the indie media company Heroic Collective.

​Direct contact: emilyannschultz@gmail.com

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