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swestlake's review against another edition
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
kamagates4's review against another edition
3.0
Strike Me Down is a thriller based off forensic accounting. The book was a little too predictable for me but it was an easy read. Fair warning, this book does deal in murder and open marriages. I was hoping for a little more numbers and math as the author really is a CPA but its more story than anything else which is fine but not what I was expecting. The end of where the money ends up was the most fascinating part to me but as far as the "who dun it?" it was a little too predictable. Quick, easy thriller though! 3 stars, audio.
lgadzik's review against another edition
2.0
Audiobook. Every year or so I forget that financial crime novels are not interesting to me and I read one.
grumbletysnarl's review
4.0
Delightful, page-turnery goodness. Who knew that forensic accounting was the next frontier for the mystery/thriller genre? I suppose Mindy Mejia did.
morgan_leigh_meredith's review against another edition
4.0
3.5, rounded up for making accounting a fascinating storyline.
becasaur27's review against another edition
3.0
Picked this up as I was looking for a book that had some forensic accounting as the basis for a mystery. This has that. Honestly, I'm not sure why I thought that sounded cool, but it didn't work out as exciting as I thought it would. The author even wove this plot around literal fighting in the ring and it still just didn't do it for me really. It was good enough that I didn't really want to abandon it (was I right about who took the money? only one way to find out! must finish book!), but not good enough that I'd recommend it to many people. It has a cheating husband, an open marriage (obviously not the same as the cheating husband), and a big case of idol worship. None of those things are what turned me off, but some of them are reasons that I'd not necessarily recommend it to others. :)
bookanonjeff's review against another edition
5.0
Raise Me Up. In some ways, this is your stereotypical whodunit, straight down to most of the action happening in some remarkable-yet-unremarkable Midwestern town with a coda in the Caribbean. In others, it takes some fun risks, even if most of them are off screen. All in all, this is arguably to CPAs what John Grisham's books - particularly his earlier ones- are to lawyers. And considering that Grisham's early books were perennially best selling books of the year through the 90s and even early 00s... I'm pretty sure Mejia won't exactly mind the comparison. ;) I had the ultimate culprit pegged somewhere between 50 and 66% through, though the endgame was a bit shocking and the epilogue even moreso. Excellent book, again, particularly for Grisham fans, and very much recommended.