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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
reflective
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:
Yes
Mysterious enough to keep me guessing, nice nod to all the true crime shows and podcasts
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Een soort van detective - wie heeft een meisje vermoord, lang geleden, op een privéschool - de veroordeelde (zwarte) gymleraar, haar vriendje, een leraar? Dit wordt doorsneden met verwijzingen van vergelijkbare #metoo-en-erger misdaden tegen vrouwen.
Dat lag er af en toe toch wel te dik op, en dat ik me matig kon inleven in de hoofdpersoon maakt het niet meer dan 3*, ondanks het belangrijke onderwerp, dat verder indringend wordt verwoord.
Dat lag er af en toe toch wel te dik op, en dat ik me matig kon inleven in de hoofdpersoon maakt het niet meer dan 3*, ondanks het belangrijke onderwerp, dat verder indringend wordt verwoord.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
MAYBE 3.5 stars? This book needed to be about 100-150 pages less. It started out great but started to lag for way too long to where I almost shelved it but I really did want to know who killed Thalia!
I liked the references to the early to mid-90’s and the cultural mindset of that time intermixed with the new mindset in the #metoo era. I was hoping for more on the phone calls she would listen in on. This book dragged on for so long in part 1 that I forgot that she would do that! I really thought when it was brought up again that she had actually overheard a conversation involving the case.
I don’t think I liked Bodie, but I liked that she would try to step outside of her own narrative to figure out why she felt one way or the other in every situation like Jerome and his accuser. I didn’t think there needed to be soooo many theories about who killed Thalia (Puja, and the old creeper in the woods for example). BUT, I really don’t like that at least 3 of those theories seemed so plausible. Not only is one of them most likely the killer, but the other two seemed plausible enough that I would’ve accepted either of them as her killer as well.
I liked that part 2 jumped 4 years into the future, which is also where the book starts to finally pick up again! Although, I really really hated the ending. No clear definitive killer or clear definitive motive it was all Bodie’s speculation just with new evidence. And that still wasn’t enough to even get an innocent man out of prison!
I read another reviewer that said they were “a believer of Chekov’s gun, if there’s a murder in the story, solve it” and I couldn’t agree more.
I needed this case to be solved clear cut and I wish there had been an epilogue. I wanted to know how the rest of Bodie, Britt and Alder’s podcast episodes went; how the social aftermath was for Robbie after his courtroom testimony; do Mike and Dorian suffer at all for being shitty people?? And lastly, what was the aftermath of Denny Bloch once all of his former students that he had groomed came forward? I don’t like mysteries that leave me with more questions than answers; especially from mysteries that needed to be edited shorter.
I liked the references to the early to mid-90’s and the cultural mindset of that time intermixed with the new mindset in the #metoo era. I was hoping for more on the phone calls she would listen in on. This book dragged on for so long in part 1 that I forgot that she would do that! I really thought when it was brought up again that she had actually overheard a conversation involving the case.
I don’t think I liked Bodie, but I liked that she would try to step outside of her own narrative to figure out why she felt one way or the other in every situation like Jerome and his accuser. I didn’t think there needed to be soooo many theories about who killed Thalia (Puja, and the old creeper in the woods for example). BUT, I really don’t like that at least 3 of those theories seemed so plausible. Not only is one of them most likely the killer, but the other two seemed plausible enough that I would’ve accepted either of them as her killer as well.
I liked that part 2 jumped 4 years into the future, which is also where the book starts to finally pick up again! Although, I really really hated the ending. No clear definitive killer or clear definitive motive it was all Bodie’s speculation just with new evidence. And that still wasn’t enough to even get an innocent man out of prison!
I read another reviewer that said they were “a believer of Chekov’s gun, if there’s a murder in the story, solve it” and I couldn’t agree more.
I needed this case to be solved clear cut and I wish there had been an epilogue. I wanted to know how the rest of Bodie, Britt and Alder’s podcast episodes went; how the social aftermath was for Robbie after his courtroom testimony; do Mike and Dorian suffer at all for being shitty people?? And lastly, what was the aftermath of Denny Bloch once all of his former students that he had groomed came forward? I don’t like mysteries that leave me with more questions than answers; especially from mysteries that needed to be edited shorter.