Beautiful Malice is the first novel for Rebecca James, who lives in Australia. It wasn't until I was about halfway through the book that I realized that while the author is Australian, the book takes place in the United States. I suppose I let the confusion of place setting bother me more that it really should have. Ultimately, it took a lot longer to read this book than it normally would have (I was reading another one: thank you Food For The Dead ) and also if I'm honest, I was afraid. You can tell right from the first lines that something bad--really bad--is going to happen to the narrator, and knowing this wasn't conducive to reading. It's like if I don't read it--it's not gonna happen to the characters and they'll be just fine! Yes. I know the characters aren't real people, but sometimes they feel real. From the very beginning of the very first lines, one feels as if they are on a one way trip on a speeding train that is quickly picking ...
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