readernath's profile picture

readernath's review

4.0
dark tense slow-paced

shanwill210's review

4.0
dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced
dark tense medium-paced

dressedupbanana's review

2.5
dark medium-paced
binty's profile picture

binty's review

4.0
dark informative
literateworld's profile picture

literateworld's review

4.0
dark reflective tense fast-paced
adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

This book is either an elaborate ruse, or a very strange book. 
 
One of the first things anonymous does is to say he threatened everyone he worked with on the book with unaliving their families if anything could link back to iOS real identity. That kind of sets the tone. 
 
If it is an elaborate ruse then the writer would have been better off publishing it as fiction, avoids the critical eye turned on every detail. 
 
If it’s not a ruse, then the hitman writing it has spent a lot of time in therapy. 
 
The reviews that criticise the writing aren’t wrong, but I listened to it on audiobook and not only did the narrator do an excellent job, but I think that’s actually the better format for this story - because it feels like a story being told to you in conversation down the pub. 
 
There are things that don’t tally with UK reality - sneaking into morgues and extended stays in custody because they can’t find a magistrate etc. Things that might have been true in the 60s, 70s, or 80s but not much later. However, many of these things are explainable by the deliberate misrepresentation of time and locale to avoid identification. 

Which, you know, if he did off all these people at the behest of variously powerful people then yeah I can see swapping an American life for a British one and the 70s for the 90s. 
 
Overall it was an interesting read. Not filled with gore, but brutal detail. 

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

owlien's review

5.0
mysterious reflective medium-paced

One of the best pieces of media I've ever come across. Highly recommend! 

Expand filter menu Content Warnings
britney_l_xox's profile picture

britney_l_xox's review

3.75
dark informative reflective fast-paced

gotta_get_coffee123's review

4.75
adventurous dark reflective medium-paced