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# Penance: The 'unmissable banger' ALICE SLATER from the author of BOY PARTS and SHE'S ALWAYS HUNGRY

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Penance: The 'unmissable banger' ALICE SLATER from the author of BOY PARTS and SHE'S ALWAYS HUNGRY : Clark, Eliza: desertcart.in: Books

Review: “It’s sad to see the Violets of the world getting left behind like that, isn’t it?” - This book follows three teenage girls who were found guilty of the murder of a high school girl. I think that's the only thing you need to know going into this. Following the synopsis, you know its going to be a dark crime almost thriller literary fiction. It explores themes on teenage girls, grief, hysteria (since the female rage is often in such cases depicted as that phenomena ~ a grouped psychosis if you will), tumblr crime fandoms/ fanfics, blur of the bully and the bullied, group Psychosis × mental illness, cult girlhood vibes, beliefs in the paranormal (interplay on the dead and living), trauma, loneliness, hypersexualization by the male gaze of teenage *murderer* girls, sexuality/ queerness, sexual violence, obsession and revenge. The narrative style of this book was mix media - featuring podcasts via dialogues, interviews and a very unreliable male narrator who tries to present the case without any bias. Besides the pacing (which is slow in someparts and I guess understandably so), there's not much I'd nit pick as this book is imo quite brilliant. You get very morally grey teenage girls - which I think is a very ironical things seeing that starting from teenage years we all really start blurring the black and white /good and evil lines - here it's just upped the notch where even the victim of the murd*r isn't entirely innocent. The crime here tho is like a collection of broken pieces of mirror - so many of these themes I noted above played a part in the act which gives you a lot to think about; how perhaps one starts mirroring what all morbid gruesome true crime media one consumes/ Or how the one who ships two kil/er$ and writes fanfics on them starts replicating their actions so much so that they become them/ & how it is through these things that the 3rd person are able to give proof of their capability of killi£g = adding that *conveniently solving the puzzle* notion where you say that it was trauma that led to this tragedy. But is that really the case? That's what this book makes you think..Doing a great job at leaving you reeling with its grotesque realness.
Review: Really good read if very uncomfortable in places. Would have been 5 stars but I thought it lost a little momentum in final chapters

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #196,590 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #967 in Science Fiction Crime & Mystery #1,148 in Mysteries (Books) #1,269 in Thrillers and Suspense |
| Country of Origin  | United Kingdom |
| Customer Reviews | 3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars (2,216) |
| Dimensions  | 13 x 2.8 x 19.6 cm |
| Edition  | Main |
| Generic Name  | Book |
| ISBN-10  | 0571371787 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0571371785 |
| Importer  | Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd |
| Item Weight  | 370 g |
| Language  | English |
| Net Quantity  | 364.00 Grams |
| Packer  | Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd |
| Print length  | 448 pages |
| Publication date  | 2 May 2024 |
| Publisher  | Faber & Faber |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “It’s sad to see the Violets of the world getting left behind like that, isn’t it?”
*by D***C on 6 March 2024*

This book follows three teenage girls who were found guilty of the murder of a high school girl. I think that's the only thing you need to know going into this. Following the synopsis, you know its going to be a dark crime almost thriller literary fiction. It explores themes on teenage girls, grief, hysteria (since the female rage is often in such cases depicted as that phenomena ~ a grouped psychosis if you will), tumblr crime fandoms/ fanfics, blur of the bully and the bullied, group Psychosis × mental illness, cult girlhood vibes, beliefs in the paranormal (interplay on the dead and living), trauma, loneliness, hypersexualization by the male gaze of teenage *murderer* girls, sexuality/ queerness, sexual violence, obsession and revenge. The narrative style of this book was mix media - featuring podcasts via dialogues, interviews and a very unreliable male narrator who tries to present the case without any bias. Besides the pacing (which is slow in someparts and I guess understandably so), there's not much I'd nit pick as this book is imo quite brilliant. You get very morally grey teenage girls - which I think is a very ironical things seeing that starting from teenage years we all really start blurring the black and white /good and evil lines - here it's just upped the notch where even the victim of the murd*r isn't entirely innocent. The crime here tho is like a collection of broken pieces of mirror - so many of these themes I noted above played a part in the act which gives you a lot to think about; how perhaps one starts mirroring what all morbid gruesome true crime media one consumes/ Or how the one who ships two kil/er$ and writes fanfics on them starts replicating their actions so much so that they become them/ & how it is through these things that the 3rd person are able to give proof of their capability of killi£g = adding that *conveniently solving the puzzle* notion where you say that it was trauma that led to this tragedy. But is that really the case? That's what this book makes you think..Doing a great job at leaving you reeling with its grotesque realness.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by M***E on 18 March 2025*

Really good read if very uncomfortable in places. Would have been 5 stars but I thought it lost a little momentum in final chapters

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by K***R on 24 January 2024*

at some points i truly felt like i had whiplash, but after about 30% of the way through, it picked up and i got my bearings. the writing is solid and the different voices throughout kept the story engaging.

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