Reviews - The Last Murder at the End of the World

5.83k reviews for:

The Last Murder at the End of the World

Stuart Turton

3.75 AVERAGE

akascha's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

circesh's review against another edition

5.0

Will Stuart Turton ever disappoint me? I believe not. That was EXCELLENT (crazy thing to say for someone who doesn’t like sci fi)

andromedasgalaxy's review against another edition

4.0

Honestly overall a really incredible book that sucked me in on my holiday to Korea. Some bits and bobs weren’t 100% but overall? A really enjoyable read.

ianisaacian's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sh0rtc4k3's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective fast-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: No

Very well paced book, I thought the mystery unraveled at just the right speed, kept me hooked and guessing while also asking thought-provoking questions about predeterminism and nature vs nurture and community and power

ceruleanz's review against another edition

3.25

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I have mixed feelings about this book. It was entertaining to the point where I read it entirely without it feeling like a burden. The characters are interesting and complex. They’re basically the highlight of the book in my opinion. However, the plot falls flat mainly because I couldn’t connect with the narrative style. It is messy, chaotic, all over the place. Many phrases, metaphors, or analogies didn’t do it for me. This makes the plot equally messy and all over the place. Even after the third act reveal and explanation the story felt unevenly paced, bland and unsatisfying. It also didn’t help that the plot takes a huge detour from the expectations the book itself built. It’s almost as if the story described in the back cover is something entirely different than the actual plot of the book.

Despite these criticisms I still believe it’s a decent book and there’s a lot of potential to the author’s narrative style. It needed a better editing in my opinion.