The Girl in 6E by A.R. TorreMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Having read some of Alessandra Torre’s brilliant books such as Sex, Love, Repeat and Hollywood Dirt and a few more, I was eager to read The Girl in 6E, written under her pseudonym, A.R. Torre and even more eager after reading so many glowing reviews by many Goodreads friends.
The Girl in 6E, the 1st book in the Deanna Madden Trilogy, is nothing like the books I have read by this author. This is not a love and romantic love story. Quite the opposite!!
Deanna Madden has isolated herself from the entire world and has locked herself away in an apartment for the last three years. After experienced the traumatic murder of her father and siblings by her mother, she believes she’s a danger to people because of the killing urge she feels and the only way she can control her psychotic murder thoughts are to look herself away.
Most of her interaction is done via the internet. She orders food, clothing and all living necessities online and deliveries are left outside her apartment front door, which she retrieves after the delivery person has departed. She talks to her therapists…yes, she has 2 of them….one to talk about sex and the other about her homicidal fantasies. And to make money, she becomes known as Jessica Reilly, the 3rd most popular webcam girl on the cybersex network makes a fortune performing sexual acts on video feeds to the lonely and degenerate that trolls the net to act out their sexual perversions in secret.
When one of her regular customers tells her about his fantasies to kill a young girl, Deanna is forced to do the unthinkable, if she’s to save her from the sick pedophile. To leave her cocoon and face the living world again.
The author did a huge amount of research of the cybersex and chat rooms world, which I know very little about. It’s crazy how many people out there who feel so disconnected from reality that they need to use it as a substitute for the real thing. The warped, dark and gritty world it seems to be.
The story is told mostly in Deanne’s POV which gives you a very personal and intimate view of her feelings and thoughts with some other characters POV as well.
I did feel the connection between Deanna and Jeremy, the UPS driver who has been delivering her orders for the last three years, a bit unconvincing. It didn’t resonate to me.
I liked Deanna a lot. There was something about her that was engaging – yes, she may be a female version of Dexter – but there was vulnerability in her that pulled me towards her.
This was not exactly a book I could say I enjoyed……a bit dark and raw for me. But somehow, the writing and the tone of the story kept my interest most of the time.
I am looking forward to the next book, Do Not Disturb.
My favorite quote:
“No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.”
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