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3.22 AVERAGE
3.22 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I get that ACAB, but why are journalists scubbags too?
dark
mysterious
tense
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
When a reporter dies in a shockingly familiar way, the media rushes to announce the return of the PDQ Killer. The city of Denver reels, but no one more than Harry Kugel. After all, he is the PDQ Killer—or was fifteen years ago. And he didn’t do this.
Disgraced TV journalist Flynn Martin holds the key. After a botched hostage situation, she’ll do anything to revive her dying career—even hunt down a monster who executed one of her own.
Harry must convince Flynn to follow him into the heady world of a killer. But with the law closing in and a rival at large, he starts to feel the familiar pull of old urges…
The book is well-written and easy to determine whose point of view we are reading. For the most part, we follow Flynn and Harry as the book progresses, but we also encounter other people's points of view. Normally, a book regarding a serial killer, you do not know the identity of said killer, and you have the whole book to work out who it was.
But in this book, we know who the killer is, and we learn lots about how he operates, and the only mystery is how a random murder of a reporter has been falsely tied to the PDQ killer. And Flynn has to learn what stories the reporter was working on to determine who killed her. The only thing that confused me was the very last chapter. I was waiting for more information, and then the book just suddenly ended.
Whilst the book was a very easy read, I very much enjoyed the book and wanted to find out what would happen in the end. Now for the rating, whilst the book was enjoyable, I wouldn't want to come back and re-read the book, so for me it is a three-star book.
The book is well-written and easy to determine whose point of view we are reading. For the most part, we follow Flynn and Harry as the book progresses, but we also encounter other people's points of view. Normally, a book regarding a serial killer, you do not know the identity of said killer, and you have the whole book to work out who it was.
But in this book, we know who the killer is, and we learn lots about how he operates, and the only mystery is how a random murder of a reporter has been falsely tied to the PDQ killer. And Flynn has to learn what stories the reporter was working on to determine who killed her. The only thing that confused me was the very last chapter. I was waiting for more information, and then the book just suddenly ended.
Whilst the book was a very easy read, I very much enjoyed the book and wanted to find out what would happen in the end. Now for the rating, whilst the book was enjoyable, I wouldn't want to come back and re-read the book, so for me it is a three-star book.
dark
medium-paced
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Poorly written. A lot of incomplete sentences or constant short sentences that make it very hard to read and create mental images. I found myself getting frustrated with the writing style more than anything, enough so that I’m not interested enough in the story to stick with the book.
The writing was choppy and disjointed. Chapters switched to different people without any real context or explanation making the order of things hard to follow. There was no way to get invested in the story because of the poor writing
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-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
DNFd 30 pages in (8%) on May 21st.
The writing was super clunky. Every chapter was a new POV but we got zero background on who these characters really were. It felt way too confusing.
The writing was super clunky. Every chapter was a new POV but we got zero background on who these characters really were. It felt way too confusing.