Short & Sweet Review: Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes by Karin Slaughter

Title:Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes

Author:Karin Slaughter

Published:August 2015, Cornerstone Digital

Format:E-Copy,  115 pages

Source:Library

A missing girl in the news reminds Julia Carroll of herself: nineteen, beautiful, blonde hair, blue eyes.

Julia
begins to dig deeper and plans an article for her college paper. She
becomes gradually more obsessed with the case, never imagining how close
she herself is to danger.

***Short & Sweet Reviews are
short, quick reviews. These will mainly be used for series books where I
have already done full reviews on some of the earlier books or for
books that I feel will suffice with a quick review. These will not be
used for review requests or blog tours.

My thoughts:This is the prequel to Karin Slaughter’s stand-alone book, Pretty Girls, which I ended up reading after I listened to the book. It gives a brief look at Julia’s life before she goes missing. It also introduces us, albeit briefly, to Julia’s family dynamics. 

There have been quite a few girls that have gone missing in their town and Julia is starting to question it. She writes for the college newspaper and wants to do a feature on it. She begins to notice that all these missing women have similar traits to her…blonde hair and blue eyes.

It is necessary to read this before, or in my case after, reading Pretty Girls? No…but it’s a nice companion piece. It gives some back story to what was going on in the area around the time of Julia’s disappearance. Had I known about it prior to starting PG, I would have read it first, but that wasn’t the case. Still, it was a decent story and added a little extra to round out an already good story.

Do you read the companion piece/prequels?  If you do, do you find they add to the full-length novel or to be a waste of time?