Killing The Girl by author Elizabeth Hill is a dark psychological thriller that does not disappoint! I love the way the events are explained to us greatly. I would recommend this book!

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Killing the Girl by Elizabeth Hill is a cautionary tale about lies: how pervasive they can be and how much damage they can do. Carol is sixteen years old and pregnant when she kills Frankie. She calls her neighbor, Perry, to come and help her and he does. They bury Frankie under a tree, build a bench by the grave and live their lives. Carol is not able to live. She gives birth to her baby, Francine, in a stupor born of exhaustion she wakes up one night, believes her daughter dead, carries it outside and goes back in to be engulfed in flames started by a candle left in her bedroom. When Perry comes again, to rescue her, she is not able to tell him that the baby's body is outside and he is badly burnt trying to find her. Francine was alive, although very ill. Carol ends up giving the baby to the father's adoptive parents and spends some time in a mental hospital. Eventually she comes home and lives as a hermit for most of the rest of her life, riddled with the guilt of Frankie's death. There are so many more details that make this a devastating story. Spoilers abound. 

Killing the Girl is a heartbreaking tale. Carol is a very complex character that loved with the whole heart of a sixteen-year-old girl, and because of lies is never able to mature. Perry, her neighbor, has loved her his whole life, but is never able to give himself over to love so it manifests itself in many unhealthy ways. Carol pushes away her family and the few friends she had, deepening her loneliness. It is frightening to see her 40 years later, after living with this burden all these years. She is pushed into mental illness and becomes drug ridden, not out of necessity, but to protect the lies of others. It is an intriguing tale, but one of a person so broken, that it brings on the deaths of people who might not have died, had they not lied. The truth nearly breaks Carol's heart, but frees her in a sense. Kind of a depressing book. Enter Carol's world carefully, it is dangerous there. Recommended with caution.

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This is a very entertaining story, thrilling, highly captivating. The character of Carol, the protagonist is superbly developed, this is writing of skill and craft. Set in England across two periods in Carol’s life, her coming of age years when she meets Frankie who treats her badly, then later when her land is to be compulsorily acquired.

I am sleep deprived from not being able to put it down. With an excellent ending, I highly recommend. I look forward to Elizabeth’s future writing.

This was a hard book to get through!  At first I thought it was a YA novel because the first half of the book was about Carol’s teenage years. The second half gets a little better in the adult years. It is a well written book but I just found it boring, long winded and wanted to just get to the end, which was a surprise. Maybe if it was a little shorter I would have enjoyed it more. Thank you netgalley for letting me give an honest review of this book.

Thank you NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for the eARC.
Carol Cage has written a diary to explain why and what she did 40 years ago.  Her home is to be demolished to make room for a new road and she's afraid her secret will be uncovered.  The diary starts from the time she was 15 when she meets the love of her life, and life becomes a twisty, romantic and desperate muddle, culminating in her self-imposed exile to her inherited home.
I found her a difficult woman to empathize with, she has such a warped sense of reality and has turned from a feisty teen into a woman suffering from what I think is a mental breakdown, all in the name of love.
But despite this I loved the book, it was hard to put down and is definitely recommended!

This book is slow to start, but once it gets started, it is thoroughly gripping. In the beginning, there are lots and lots of descriptions which may seem overdone but after the halfway point in the story, this information becomes significant. The story that’s told is very emotional and mysterious because we learn throughout the story that Carol has a very twisted version of her own reality. She made plenty of bad decisions because of this and dealt with the fall out on her, leading her deeper into the center of her own delusional mind.

I loved this book! The author wrote a story where you think that you know what happened and then surprises you at the end!  The secret eating away at Carol for over 40 years is finally going to come out when she has to leave her home and this book explores not only that, but the loss of innocence when a young girl falls in love with an older playboy.  I enjoyed this one!