Book Review I DID IT FOR YOU Amy Engle
Thank you to the author Amy Engle, publishers Dutton and Penguin Group, and as always NetGalley, for an advance audio copy of I DID IT FOR YOU. I've been getting more into crime novels, but I need a really creative human connection in the narrative in order to enjoy them. Selections in this genre tend to come in close to a killer's mentality from the human side, rather than the horror side, which can be uncomfortable for me for two reasons. First, when a killer is written from a horror framework, it puts a great deal of idealogial distance between the reader and the killer. The book's own opinion is that the reader and the killer are very different kinds of people. Crime novels, on the other hand, when their killers are written from this human place, close the distance between the reader and the killer. I most enjoy crime novels that exploit this proximity in clever and creative ways, expecially if they cause me to exercise empathy in new way. I DID IT FOR YOU ...