Review: Slice Of Cherry by Dia Reeves
I recieved a free ARC of Slice of Cherry a couple months ago for review, and it has taken me forever to have a chance to read and review it. Thank you Simon Pulse for supplying Eve’s Fan Garden with this ARC.
Kit and Fancy Cordelle are sisters of the best kind: best friends, best confidantes, and best accomplices. The daughters of the infamous Bonesaw Killer, Kit and Fancy are used to feeling like outsiders, and that’s just the way they like it. But in Portero, where the weird and wild run rampant, the Cordelle sisters are hardly the oddest or most dangerous creatures around.
It’s no surprise when Kit and Fancy start to give in to their deepest desire—the desire to kill. What starts as a fascination with slicing open and stitching up quickly spirals into a gratifying murder spree. Of course, the sisters aren’t killing just anyone, only the people who truly deserve it. But the girls have learned from the mistakes of their father, and know that a shred of evidence could get them caught. So when Fancy stumbles upon a mysterious and invisible doorway to another world, she opens a door to endless possibilities…
Description from Goodreads.
This book is totally twisted. Totally and completely and thoroughly twisted. And I yet, I liked it. Dia is able to create a very vivid picture with her words, and while many of those words painted something violent and gruesome, the rest of them came together to tell a story about two sisters who are fiercely protective of each other. The relationship they share is complicated and messy.
When I first started reading I thought I knew what to expect from the sisters, I thought I knew what each one was about, but slowly as I made my way further into the book all the things I thought I knew were tipped upside down. Dia is good at that. The way she writes is unpredictable. Her stories are strange, and trippy- but the writing is always beautiful… even when the subject is ugly. Does that make sense?
I am sure the comparison has been made, but Slice of Cherry makes me think of Dexter (the TV show, I have not read any of the books yet…) in a lot of ways. The Cordelle sisters kill the people they think deserve it for whatever reason. There are differences, I think they lack the same moral code that Dexter has given himself, and also these girls feel things, and they feel them deeply. Dexter struggles with emotion, and seems to have a hard time feeling much. They are also, in my mind at least, more dangerous than Dexter, more volatile and quick to act. There is a place in the book where someone says to one of the sisters, “You’re like rottweilers – they protect you from burglars, but nothing protects you from them.” And that seems pretty accurate to me.
Slice of Cherry is (I think?) a companion to Bleeding Violet. They both take place in the same town, but you don’t really have to read Bleeding Violet before reading Slice of Cherry. Although, it would make certain elements make more sense, such as the invisible doorways, and the monsters that live in town.
If you are looking for something that is dark and twisty, bloody and unpredictable, then you should check out Slice of Cherry by Dia Reeves.
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Hmm interesting story line. Might have to check this one out!
I just finished this one – I did not read Bleeding Violet, and I wished I did. I was confused about a few things.