March, 2025
March 3rd, 2025, 8:03 p.m. - The couple who kills together...something something
9. A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage (Asia Mackay)
Up next: Sucker Punch (Scaachi Koul)
March 12th, 2025, 8:01 p.m. - Parvati, Kali, Lolita, and other incomplete stories
10. Sucker Punch (Scaachi Koul)
Up next: Famous Last Words (Gillian McAllister)
March 20th, 2025, 8:01 p.m. - The ghosting ghostwriter
11. Famous Last Words (Gillian McAllister)
Up next: Kills Well With Others (Deanna Raybourn)
March 28th, 2025, 6:36 p.m. - Yay, Minka's back!
12. Kills Well With Others (Deanna Raybourn)
Up next: You Are Fatally Invited (Ande Pliego)
This had all the components of an excellent book, but they didn't all fit together right. It reads like a draft instead of a final manuscript.
Koul's writing has evolved so much in the eight years since she wrote One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter that this was like reading a completely different author. I loved her repeating themes through this and the message of how complicated everyone's story is. I enjoyed pretty much every word of this.
Woo, I called three of the big twists! But that doesn't at all diminish how much I enjoyed this. I like the way McAllister puts together a puzzle.
I liked this a lot, but I don't get why Raybourn structured the subplot about the mole the way she did. No suspects are reviewed, it's ignored for most of the story until it just gets shoved in out of nowhere, and then it just...ends. Why end the main plot before the subplot when you haven't done enough to make us care about that subplot throughout the rest of the book?