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Title: The Kind Worth KillingAuthor: Peter Swanson
Published: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 411
Rating: 3/5
Summary:
Two people, a man and a woman, meet on a flight from London to Boston and the man confesses he's upset with his wife and jokes about killing her, when out of nowhere, the woman offers to help him do it.
Review:
This was a really enjoyable read but I think maybe I had hyped it a bit too much up for myself and it didn't quite live up to the massive expectations that I had.
The story is intriguing from the very first page and I really liked getting to know our characters, everyone's backstory and getting to know their often quite twisted minds. It's an easy book to read and an easy book to get sucked into. I really, really liked getting to know one of the main characters we meet from the start and getting flashes to her past was one of my favorite parts of the book.
There are a lot of twists and turns in this book, but I found the ones at the beginning much more surprising than the ones that appear later on in the novel, which to me became almost predictable, or at least not as shocking as I wanted them to be. I also started feeling towards the middle that we were spending too much time on uninteresting things and I think maybe it would've been a tighter and more exciting story if it had been edited down a smidge.
One thing I did notice while reading this is that although each chapter names which character we're following in said chapter, the voice doesn't change a whole lot when switching between perspectives and I think having more distinct voices for the characters would've upped this a notch.
There is undeniably a lot of suspense in this though and I really wanted to know how it was all going to end, so it was overall quite an entertaining experience. I do think that I would've rated this a bit higher if I hadn't had such high expectations though.
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