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A review by peterkeep
I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells
4.0
Probably closer to a 3 star book in terms of the writing and stuff, but I got sucked into it pretty quickly. It was fast and fun, with a lot of excitement in such a short book. I like the premise -- a kid diagnosed as a sociopath struggles to be normal, a would-be serial killer is obsessed with serial killers and then guess what, a serial killer shows up. It's not exactly like that, but it was enough to sell me on the book.
Some of the writing favors pace over prose, and the character sometimes falls a bit flat (although it's hard to tell, since he doesn't show emotion anyways), but the story is good enough to make amends for all of that. There weren't a lot of twists and turns, but the ones that were there caught me off guard. I think that's important for a book like this...it sometimes felt like even though I was enjoying it, I could see what was going to happen next, so it was nice when I was wrong. I liked being surprised.
Overall, not a lot of depth but again, a lot of fun.
Some of the writing favors pace over prose, and the character sometimes falls a bit flat (although it's hard to tell, since he doesn't show emotion anyways), but the story is good enough to make amends for all of that. There weren't a lot of twists and turns, but the ones that were there caught me off guard. I think that's important for a book like this...it sometimes felt like even though I was enjoying it, I could see what was going to happen next, so it was nice when I was wrong. I liked being surprised.
Overall, not a lot of depth but again, a lot of fun.