GENRE: Suspense
AUTHOR SITE: link
MY GRADE: B
SYNOPSIS: Years after five innocent young women are sexually exploited and humiliated by a group of fraternity brothers playing a cruel, macho game, someone sets out to take revenge by brutally murdering the men, one by one.
SYNOPSIS: Years after five innocent young women are sexually exploited and humiliated by a group of fraternity brothers playing a cruel, macho game, someone sets out to take revenge by brutally murdering the men, one by one.
MY THOUGHTS: The e-book version of this was retitled Carnal Vengeance. I don't know if its been edited or rewritten in any way.
I first read this in 1995. I got it from Doubleday Book Club, read it multiple times and stupidly got rid of it in 2005, replaced it March 2022. I read it at least three times but not sure exactly how many.
This was pretty interesting but hard to reread already knowing who the killer is. When I first read it I didn't guess who it was. This is set mainly in Washington, D.C., and part in Florida. The women, who are in their early to mid 30s, are getting revenge on a specific group of former male college classmates who raped them at separate times/different years, by using their brains, not violence, and that's pretty damn clever. Their are six main women who are part of the Little Sister Society in the novel and more that aren't in it. That all changes when Holly enters the picture. Things take a very dark turn as far as revenge goes.
I don't like reporter David Wells at all. He's very arrogant and pushy, forceful, actually. He's a self-proclaimed "free-wheeling, unfaithful bachelor." I really disliked the Mick D'Angelo/Jerry Frampton snuff film subplot. It was too over the top. I guess the point in making one of the characters, Bobbi, have a split personality named Roberta was to show that that developed after her rape but we should have just heard about it, not heard from Roberta, as it did nothing at all for the plot. I also really disliked Holly traveling to visit her parents to tell her about her rape 13 years later. Again, it did nothing for the plot other than to give us another red herring character in her father. I do like when characters who aren't villians get away with bad deeds and one of the main charcters is said person.
I first read this in 1995. I got it from Doubleday Book Club, read it multiple times and stupidly got rid of it in 2005, replaced it March 2022. I read it at least three times but not sure exactly how many.
This was pretty interesting but hard to reread already knowing who the killer is. When I first read it I didn't guess who it was. This is set mainly in Washington, D.C., and part in Florida. The women, who are in their early to mid 30s, are getting revenge on a specific group of former male college classmates who raped them at separate times/different years, by using their brains, not violence, and that's pretty damn clever. Their are six main women who are part of the Little Sister Society in the novel and more that aren't in it. That all changes when Holly enters the picture. Things take a very dark turn as far as revenge goes.
I don't like reporter David Wells at all. He's very arrogant and pushy, forceful, actually. He's a self-proclaimed "free-wheeling, unfaithful bachelor." I really disliked the Mick D'Angelo/Jerry Frampton snuff film subplot. It was too over the top. I guess the point in making one of the characters, Bobbi, have a split personality named Roberta was to show that that developed after her rape but we should have just heard about it, not heard from Roberta, as it did nothing at all for the plot. I also really disliked Holly traveling to visit her parents to tell her about her rape 13 years later. Again, it did nothing for the plot other than to give us another red herring character in her father. I do like when characters who aren't villians get away with bad deeds and one of the main charcters is said person.
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