The Shining Girls

Synopsis taken from Goodreads:

"Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future.

Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times.

At the urging of the House, Harper inserts himself into the lives of the shining girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. He's the ultimate hunter, vanishing into another time after each murder, untraceable-until one of his victims survives.

Determined to bring her would-be killer to justice, Kirby joins theChicago Sun-Times to work with the ex-homicide reporter, Dan Velasquez, who covered her case. Soon Kirby finds herself closing in on the impossible truth . . ."

The Shining Girls takes on a different twist of the serial killer stories that we all assume to know. And though it is interesting to see someone travel in time, it seems weird to combine time traveling and serial killing at the same time. The descriptions  of the murder were so raw and heartless, and you tend to sympathize for the victims and the families they left behind; however, the motive wasn't there. I was waiting for the background of how the villain ended up in the house and the reason as to why he's doing it, but everything is left vague and questions left unanswered. I finished the book not because I was interested with the connection among the victims and how things would transpire, and not because I wanted to see redemption, but I was more curious of the motive of the killer. I though I would be getting that clarity in the end, but I am lost by the time I was done reading the book. For me, it also lacked any deep emotional display, only that there's a certain need to do things, and I wasn't satisfied with just these.