Reviews
I will definitely be reading more by Peter Swanson! This was such a fun, twisty, cat and mouse read. With 3 very distinctive parts- each introducing new characters and a new twist- it felt like 3 separate stories woven together, pulling you along for a wild ride. The characters are all psychotic in their own ways but you kinda love them anyway. Lily feels like the female Joe (from You). You know her way of thinking is crazy but she makes it so believable that you feel like you must be crazy to be rooting for her. Ambiguous ending but I liked it.
You know sometimes when you read a book and you know who the bad guy is, but you are kind of rooting for them? But things get twisty when the plan backfires and better people get caught up in bad people doing bad things? It’s manipulation and lies at their finest. This book got me saying, “No … I mean that’s not right? Wellllll, they kind of deserved it, but it seems harsh ….” Overall, I liked it.
I haven't enjoyed a book like this in a while. Excellent and with so many cliffhangers at exactly the best parts
Note to self: please, stop randomly picking up books written by male authors you know nothing about and expect not to get cringed.
Worth the read for something different, good writing 👍 A little slow in parts with some interesting and sudden plot developements, though I felt like the ending was a little open to interpretation?
The Kind Worth Avoiding in my opinion. I am not sure how this book has such a high rating. Ok there were some positives: it was a page turner; I thought the coastal descriptions were very good; the different points of view makes the story more interesting.But they don't outweigh the major negatives for me which was the poor writing, plot and cliched characters.Reviewers spout on about a book having 'twists'. These aren't twists, they are just plain old plot turns which are either uninspiring or predictable. A twist is something you could never see coming and turns everything on its head in a 'wow' moment. Nothing like that in this book.Whilst the different POVs can work in books, it didn't here. I could tell what would happen in the next chapter as you knew it would be different/opposite to what you had read in the previous chapter.Misogynist writing syndrome:-I found I could easily visualise the women in the book but not the men. This is because the author spent more time describing the women's body/clothes etc and not the men. Why do I care that due to the top a female character was wearing you could see "the swell of her breasts". It has nothing to do with anything but everything to do with what the author thinks is important. Its not.- Unnecessary sex scenes.- The distasteful thoughts in the poems sounded like something a schoolboy would write not a detective.- A virgin on her first night with a man would not be suddenly "on top changing rhythm". My least favourite part of the writing was when Det. Kimball said about his very tall, black, female cop partner that he "assumed she was gay" because, get this, "it was the greatest non-sexual partnership in my life". So because they didn't have a sexual relationship...he assumed she was gay?? Commence major eye-rolling.The whole story was too far fetched. Why all the characters immediately want to become murderers before considering divorce is beyond me.