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A review by 3rian
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
1.5
Sadly, I couldn't find my groove with this one. There are genuinely interesting ethical questions about humanity, AI, and self-determination here, but they unfortunately failed to click for me as I just couldn't get into the writing style. I genuinely tried, but didn't really like or care about any of the two-dimensional characters, and certainly didn't find the setting or the cultural norms of this fictional society to be compelling. As such, I never really got invested in the mystery. I did like the one major plot revelation (about halfway through the book), but it wasn't enough to save things for me.
It didn't help that I split this as an audiobook, featuring one of the worst narrators I've ever heard. This one would have benefited from a woman's voice, but instead I got a deep-voiced man delivering a flat reading offset by an unnerving combination of ridiculously pitched voices for the female characters and brutally awful accents all around.
It didn't help that I split this as an audiobook, featuring one of the worst narrators I've ever heard. This one would have benefited from a woman's voice, but instead I got a deep-voiced man delivering a flat reading offset by an unnerving combination of ridiculously pitched voices for the female characters and brutally awful accents all around.