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Kill Show by Daniel Sweren-Becker
4.0
“Every story needs a villain. Now, we had one.”
This one I’m actually kicking myself for picking up as an audiobook because halfway through I realized how bad I wanted to see how this was laid out in print. “Kill Show” presented as an audio-drama, full cast and everything. As y’all know I’m a big slut for epistolary/interview style stories, especially “realism” unraveling. And a turn of events AFTER the turn of events? Hachi machi.
“Kill Show” offers a perspective, good and bad, of true crime media: obsessive fans, crisis deniers, reality sharks, vulnerable family members and friends, clueless and human detectives, and the integral audience’s role. True crime has existed since the dawn of…well, crime itself, but the responsive wave and subsequent reclamation of power and autonomy by victims and survivors creates relief, but also opportunities for exploitation. Sweren-Becker does a good job of highlighting that line.
4/5 Nothing ever really feels fair in true crime, novel or not.
This one I’m actually kicking myself for picking up as an audiobook because halfway through I realized how bad I wanted to see how this was laid out in print. “Kill Show” presented as an audio-drama, full cast and everything. As y’all know I’m a big slut for epistolary/interview style stories, especially “realism” unraveling. And a turn of events AFTER the turn of events? Hachi machi.
“Kill Show” offers a perspective, good and bad, of true crime media: obsessive fans, crisis deniers, reality sharks, vulnerable family members and friends, clueless and human detectives, and the integral audience’s role. True crime has existed since the dawn of…well, crime itself, but the responsive wave and subsequent reclamation of power and autonomy by victims and survivors creates relief, but also opportunities for exploitation. Sweren-Becker does a good job of highlighting that line.
4/5 Nothing ever really feels fair in true crime, novel or not.