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3.3 AVERAGE
3.3 AVERAGE
This was the first time I’ve read a mystery/thriller in ages, and although it took me a little while to get into it, I was definitely pleasantly and disturbingly surprised haha!
Ugh. It was fine, I guess. Rating: 2.5 rounded up to a 3.
If you are able to keep the multi-5-person-POVs straight in this, then maybe tell me who were they addressing in each chapter? Were these monologues addressing the audience? Were we reading their internal thoughts? Was it a devil-may-care mixture of flagrant inconsistency so you can get an outcome nO oNe ExPeCtS? (The answer to that last question is yes, I feel) I am revisiting portions of the book now, knowing the result, and I cannot find the sense in any of it.
Authors, please hear me: commit to a consistent method of perspective, because anything else is sloppy writing, beneath you, and we all deserve better.
My biggest literary pet peeve (other than everyone and their mom needing to write an unreliable narrator) are those books, thrillers, whodunits who violate common sense and its own logic. Unless you are experiencing some sort of psychological episode, you don't lie to yourself in your own mind. Especially if you're a criminal mastermind. You don't think to yourself "could my husband be the murderererr, he's so scary and angry, I've never seen this side" when you actually did it, and are actively framing him for it, for example. This is more of a jab at Jeneva Rose and Frieda McFadden, to be quite honest, who are -I have found- the most guilty of this. But if The Christmas Party doesn't need consistency, then this review doesn't either.
It's all a giant pile of whatever at this point. Merry Christmas.
If you are able to keep the multi-5-person-POVs straight in this, then maybe tell me who were they addressing in each chapter? Were these monologues addressing the audience? Were we reading their internal thoughts? Was it a devil-may-care mixture of flagrant inconsistency so you can get an outcome nO oNe ExPeCtS? (The answer to that last question is yes, I feel) I am revisiting portions of the book now, knowing the result, and I cannot find the sense in any of it.
Authors, please hear me: commit to a consistent method of perspective, because anything else is sloppy writing, beneath you, and we all deserve better.
My biggest literary pet peeve (other than everyone and their mom needing to write an unreliable narrator) are those books, thrillers, whodunits who violate common sense and its own logic. Unless you are experiencing some sort of psychological episode, you don't lie to yourself in your own mind. Especially if you're a criminal mastermind. You don't think to yourself "could my husband be the murderererr, he's so scary and angry, I've never seen this side" when you actually did it, and are actively framing him for it, for example. This is more of a jab at Jeneva Rose and Frieda McFadden, to be quite honest, who are -I have found- the most guilty of this. But if The Christmas Party doesn't need consistency, then this review doesn't either.
It's all a giant pile of whatever at this point. Merry Christmas.
mysterious
medium-paced
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
tense
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It was okay. I guessed and honestly wasn’t shocked by anything that happened
slow-paced