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His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae Burnet

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junancollins's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I have never felt so much sympathy for a psychopath. I have also never been so uncomfortable with my own sympathy for a psychopath.

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nepentheiii's review

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challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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kstericker's review against another edition

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dark reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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vickyreptile's review against another edition

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dark reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Qué inmensamente entretenido que es Un plan sangriento! Por momentos, me hizo acordar mucho a Alias Grace, de Margaret Atwood. Los puntos de conexión son obvios: un acusado de un crimen que habla de su crimen con alguien que intenta ayudarlo, pero a la vez, en esa narración, se devela como un narrador poco confiable, que, a la larga, nos traiciona.
El trabajo de Graeme Macrae es preciso: nos hace querer a Roddy, su inocencia, su precariedad y desamparo, para después revelarlo como un potencial monstruo. El juicio, el de la novela, y el propio, es difícil. ¿Podemos condenarlo después de saber SU (y subrayo el SU) historia?
Magistral, entretenido y, además, enmarcado en mis preciosas Tierras Altas de Escocia. Qué más se puede pedir?

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writingcaia's review

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dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Wow so I read this whole book thinking it was non-fiction. Fuck me!
(Totally my bad if I had paid more attention to reviews and blurbs I’d have known it before. Now I’ve to find me another non-fic to read this month.)
And, how the hell am I going to rate this?
It was interesting for sure. Gruesome and historically sound (for a know nothing me), but the characterisation, the setting, the familial and societal relationships does resonate with what I’ve come to assume and identify of the times in isolated, poor communities ruled by Lairds (Lords) and their constables in Scotland. Also, my mixed feelings towards the killer and his actions, wether insane or not, from my part were real too.
Ah, crap. I guess I liked it, if it made me feel so much, and honestly the beginning was kind of hard to get into, but afterwards I was quite eager to see where it would lead, and there was a lot of hope for a certain outcome by the end of it.
The court part in what it diverges from the biography was relevant but I did suspect it.
There’s so much at play here, age, poverty, ambitions or lack of, insanity, lust, vengeance, intellect, premeditation, we know nothing and have to infer everything with the same degree of distance and the same information as if we were a juror. It’s a hard job and I wouldn’t want it. Actually we do have more information as we have the biography, which does make you get more familiar with the young killer.
Definitely a cool play on the narrative part. It fooled me.

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