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katymulvey's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Strong character development? No
3.0
I have never once been more annoyed about an ending. Where is my closure !
elishareids's review against another edition
3.0
I liked the premise of this book, the start was strong, intriguing and different. The anti heroism was funny and interesting to read but I felt like it was dragging around halfway through. There were unnecessary plot points and rambling towards the end with a try hard aspect that was starting to get boring. the murders also became less prominent to the story like they were in the start.
The ending completely ruined it for me, no closure for the main character at all, and the fact the MAN who suddenly pops up out of nowhere became ‘victorious’ and kind of one up-ed her was disappointing and not very feminist driven like the underlying plot perceived.
>> I’ve just found out the authors father was the editor in chief of the guardian- this completely makes me eye roll at the character snubbing money and privilege the whole book when she herself was born into it! Can authors stop trying to write ‘funny’ ‘quirky’ books on how much they hate privilege and power and even a feminist take (which clearly wasn’t as the main character would shit talk girls with filler) when they themselves have all of the above, its very delusional and makes me eye roll so hard.
The ending completely ruined it for me, no closure for the main character at all, and the fact the MAN who suddenly pops up out of nowhere became ‘victorious’ and kind of one up-ed her was disappointing and not very feminist driven like the underlying plot perceived.
>> I’ve just found out the authors father was the editor in chief of the guardian- this completely makes me eye roll at the character snubbing money and privilege the whole book when she herself was born into it! Can authors stop trying to write ‘funny’ ‘quirky’ books on how much they hate privilege and power and even a feminist take (which clearly wasn’t as the main character would shit talk girls with filler) when they themselves have all of the above, its very delusional and makes me eye roll so hard.
oftheglade's review against another edition
4.5
Would’ve been a perfect five if not for the ending. I’ve read an interview with the author where she explains what the intention was and I get it I just don’t like it. Other than that, this was laugh out loud funny, smart, well paced and interesting and really got me out of a reading slump!!
roosaleino's review against another edition
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
4.25
neapard's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
belalucy's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I'm not usually one for crime novels, but the killer's perspective was a neat choice.
im0gen's review against another edition
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
siobhanmaguire09's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
ricatanval723's review against another edition
1.0
Horrible book. Overhyped.
Told from the POV of Grace, who kills her family (hence, the title), who tries to be feminist rah rah rah but perpetuates the harmful angry-feminist stereotype while at the same time shits on her same sex, based on generalizations.
The author uses so many unnecessary flowery words as if to reach a word count goal. All the characters are linear and basic stereotypes of other TV/movie/book characters of the wealthy — even the description of their clothes and appearances.
The book tries to discuss the issue of class. But all this did was insult and snipe at the rich people in the most embarrassingly bitter way possible.
Mackie tries to be funny and witty but comes out as embarrassing.
The main character hates on EVERYTHING and EVERYONE. She’s a pick-me girl, so vanilla that hating becomes her main identity. She’s snobbish for no reason. And her backstory with her relationship with her mother is so flat, so emotionless that I would wonder why she even started killing off her family for her mother. Her raison d’être isn’t even compelling.
The way she kills isn’t even brilliant. She puts so much effort, time and thought into killing members of her family only to kill them in the most basic and flattest way possible. Her info-gathering of her relatives are stupid, reading magazines, gossiping with other people. She’s based her entire reason for killing these people off of generalizations and third parties.
The twist is… disappointing, flat, anti-climactic.
This is the flattest book I have ever read, it might as well have been a single sheet of paper.
Told from the POV of Grace, who kills her family (hence, the title), who tries to be feminist rah rah rah but perpetuates the harmful angry-feminist stereotype while at the same time shits on her same sex, based on generalizations.
The author uses so many unnecessary flowery words as if to reach a word count goal. All the characters are linear and basic stereotypes of other TV/movie/book characters of the wealthy — even the description of their clothes and appearances.
The book tries to discuss the issue of class. But all this did was insult and snipe at the rich people in the most embarrassingly bitter way possible.
Mackie tries to be funny and witty but comes out as embarrassing.
The main character hates on EVERYTHING and EVERYONE. She’s a pick-me girl, so vanilla that hating becomes her main identity. She’s snobbish for no reason. And her backstory with her relationship with her mother is so flat, so emotionless that I would wonder why she even started killing off her family for her mother. Her raison d’être isn’t even compelling.
The way she kills isn’t even brilliant. She puts so much effort, time and thought into killing members of her family only to kill them in the most basic and flattest way possible. Her info-gathering of her relatives are stupid, reading magazines, gossiping with other people. She’s based her entire reason for killing these people off of generalizations and third parties.
The twist is… disappointing, flat, anti-climactic.
This is the flattest book I have ever read, it might as well have been a single sheet of paper.
hannedpr's review against another edition
dark
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.0