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tatterededges 's review for:
Kill Your Husbands
by Jack Heath
I’m going to need a trigger warning at the start of all books that says “Warning: this book contains a long and pointless monologue by one of the characters where they proceed to tell you the entire plot of the book you’ve just read.”
I would actually really like an author to answer this for me because it’s doing my head in. Why did I bother reading the book if you were just going to lay the whole plot out over 2 pages?
Anyway this book was stupid. The rest of the review contains spoilers so either look away or read on.
6 people go to cabin in a woods where they embark on an overly complicated partner swap in which not one of them actually ends up swapping partners. 3 of them end up dead, 2 of them lock themselves in a room and in an absolutely unshocking turn of events the remaining one turns out to be the killer.
The lead detective plans a romantic weekend away with her lover to the murder house where they find a whole human body stuffed into the oven.
Wait, what? How big is this oven and are you seriously telling me that not one person who went through the house after the double/triple murder noticed 1. The smell or 2 the body? Given that ovens have GLASS FUCKING DOORS that are, you know, see through.
Then a whole bunch of shit happens with a 16 yo kid that is pretty meaningless and has no bearing on the plot at all.
And then the detective, who has so far not done a single lick of detective work has an epiphany mid break up with their lover and figures out that obviously the only one of the 6 that’s both still alive and was present for every murder/attempted murder must be the killer.
I don’t know about you, but I feel so much safer in the knowledge that this is the caliber of the local cops.
Then the gotcha moment where the cop lays out the whole plot, yawn, no shit Sherlock, throws in a few other murders that have never been mentioned before for good measure and lets the kidnapped guy out of the boot of the car.
Hooray!
I would actually really like an author to answer this for me because it’s doing my head in. Why did I bother reading the book if you were just going to lay the whole plot out over 2 pages?
Anyway this book was stupid. The rest of the review contains spoilers so either look away or read on.
6 people go to cabin in a woods where they embark on an overly complicated partner swap in which not one of them actually ends up swapping partners. 3 of them end up dead, 2 of them lock themselves in a room and in an absolutely unshocking turn of events the remaining one turns out to be the killer.
The lead detective plans a romantic weekend away with her lover to the murder house where they find a whole human body stuffed into the oven.
Wait, what? How big is this oven and are you seriously telling me that not one person who went through the house after the double/triple murder noticed 1. The smell or 2 the body? Given that ovens have GLASS FUCKING DOORS that are, you know, see through.
Then a whole bunch of shit happens with a 16 yo kid that is pretty meaningless and has no bearing on the plot at all.
And then the detective, who has so far not done a single lick of detective work has an epiphany mid break up with their lover and figures out that obviously the only one of the 6 that’s both still alive and was present for every murder/attempted murder must be the killer.
I don’t know about you, but I feel so much safer in the knowledge that this is the caliber of the local cops.
Then the gotcha moment where the cop lays out the whole plot, yawn, no shit Sherlock, throws in a few other murders that have never been mentioned before for good measure and lets the kidnapped guy out of the boot of the car.
Hooray!