Title: The Girl in 6E
Author: A.R. Torre
Pages: 336
Genre: Fiction, Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Erotic Thriller
My life is simple, as long as I follow the rules.
- Don’t leave the apartment.
- Never let anyone in.
- Don’t kill anyone.
I’ve obeyed these rules for three years. But rules were made to be broken.
Evenin’ brave bookworms!
This is the very simple description on the back of the novel, however I wasn’t quite sure what I was stepping into. Featuring a main character whose urges to kill are so intense she hasn’t left her apartment in three years? I immediate went, Wait….how does that even work?
The novel follows Deanna, who is 21 years of a age and a woman who has built an extreme life of isolation within the 4 walls of her apartment for the last three years. Everything she needs is delivered right to her apartment door; groceries, packages and even some minor human interaction. She only speaks to a handful of people on a regular basis – two therapists, a Vicodin-addicted neighbour (who locks her in her apartment at night) and the UPS delivery guy who is interested in more then just dropping off her packages. However this excludes her clients. Her carefully curated life is due to Deanna’s dark desires, more then dark….they are deadly. She knows that if she strays just a little too much, blood will inevitably spill. So for the safety of the public beyond her apartment door, she stays indoors permanently.
What does she do for work, you may be asking. Deanna has dived head first into the world of becoming a professional cam girl. With intelligence and careful precision, she created her online persona – Jessica Riley, a 19-year old coed who can fulfill every request without judgement. She never physically meets anyone and strictly connects via webcam and voice chats. The perfect fantasy for her clientele around the world. It’s flawless and it funds her seclusion comfortably.
However a new subscriber to her website begins the turning point in our story. His wants…how she feels about it…and where it goes…well Deanna begins to wonder if all her dark, bloody knife infused fantasies are about to come true.
The novel takes you on a wild ride, slightly erotic, mildly unhinged and completely skin crawling at times. A.R. Torre does an impeccable job keeping you directly on your tip-toes the whole time. Daring you to put the book down, only to keep you clutching your book for more.
A.R. Torre also does a wonderful job fully submersing you into whatever perspective is deemed appropriate at that moment in the novel; whether it is Deanna, her clients or even those who orbit around Deanna’s world. You feel every tension, every thought-out calculated decision, every terrifying and tender moment portrayed. And just when you thought you had everything pieced together, you are struck by the magnitude of Deanna’s life experiences.
The world feels dark, slightly humorous at times and painfully real. Almost forbidden for you to be peeking into.
The only downside for me, as a mom (and general human being), was the aspect that touched on pedophilia that was represented in the story. That made me cringe every time I had to read through those portions, however speed reading through them helped me get by.
In conclusion, if you’re in the mood for a skin crawling, erotic thriller with a female protagonist who is both psychotically frightening and brilliant. Not to mention pure justice at the end and the strange romance attached, then The Girl in 6E might just be your next read.
Hope you enjoyed the review and until next time…
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