Book Review: Getting Off: A Novel of Sex and Violence (Hard Case Crime #69) by Lawrence Block
Getting Off: A Novel of Sex and Violence by Lawrence Block (writing as Jill Emerson). © 2011 Hard Case Crime. ISBN 9780857682871. Hardcover. Crime / Thriller. 336 pages. Source: ARC provided by the publishers.
“When she walks out there’s a man with her. She goes to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even better. She cleans out his wallet and keeps moving, taking a new name for each change of address. She’s been doing this for a while, and she’s good at it. Then a chance remark gets her thinking of the men who got away, the lucky ones who survived a night with her. And now she’s a girl with a mission. Picking up their trails. Hunting them down. Crossing them off her list…” — from back cover
There’s not much to add to the above back cover blurb: our protagonist is Kit Tolliver, a woman [not a girl like the blurb says] set out on killing every name she’s ever slept with.
I can’t say I am all too impressed with this book. Getting Off read like a Skinemax production, and this is coming from someone who reads a good bit of erotica. However, this was just too much. I read that’s it’s a novel of self-discovery but that part must have completely surpassed me because it looked like nothing but sex and death to me.
I know Lawrence Block is one of the most-acclaimed mystery writers (still living that is) but this definitely did not make me want to check out his other books. 1/5.
