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How to murder your Boss – McMasters Handbuch zum Morden by Rupert Holmes

71 reviews

bleu_writes's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Easily one of my favorite reads this year. I love the tone and found all of the twists to be fair and enjoyable.
It scratches a very petty, not-super-christian itch in my brain.

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prairieraven's review against another edition

3.25

dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Picked this up based on a random post that came up on my feed and entirely based on the title. Clever and steady paced. Not exactly suspenseful more methodical including the plot, enjoyed the idea of training people to become better killers/how to get away with murder.

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frogswimmer25's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark informative mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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hmetwade's review against another edition

4.25

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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helmililja's review against another edition

1.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Tl;dr great concept, awful execution

Where do I even start with this... I bought this book because it was on sale, the cover caught my eye, and the plot description on the back sounded awesome. Who wouldn't want to read about a murder academy? However, the issues were very quickly apparently.

Firstly, the pacing is AWFUL. I get that there are 3 main characters and they all need to be set up but god this was a slog at times. It took ages to get going and even when it did get going it was still unbelievably slow.

Secondly, I'm not one to usually complain about ridiculous things in fictional media but my god were the murder plans the main characters came up with ridiculous.

like, cliff is playing some fucking 6d chess with the whole "oh no you ruined my plan... actually I planned for this and you're dead now muahahaha

IT'S SO STUPID I JUST CAN'T TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY

Speaking of murder

Gemma being spared because she didn't want to kill a pregnant woman is so STUPID. Why is a murder academy pro life. At first I thought Gemma actually died from the impact of the bricks and I would've preferred that to what actually ended up happening

And um

there's exactly zero conflict in this book?? IT'S SO BORING NOTHING EVER GOES WRONG. Psychopathic classmate at murder school? The faculty just execute him for being a danger. Cliff falls into a fucking reviene? Oh actually it was fake and had a cushioned bottom :) Gemma fails at her graduation murder and is thus going to get killed? Well actually no✨

AND DORIAN let me not even get started. I'd like to personally ask the writer of this book why the actual fuck it was implied that she was better off with her rapist misogynist boss. THAT MAN LITERALLY CONFESSED TO ASSAULTING WOMEN and yet she's even more miserable once he dies?? Go fuck yourself.

Yeah idk it's so sad because this premise has potential, this writer just did not unlock it. There were some parts I genuinely enjoyed a lot but the ending was just so shit I can't.

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