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A review by nicki_j
I Love You More by Jennifer Murphy
4.0
I like books with precocious child narrators, so I knew I would like this book and Picasso's character. It kind of reminded me of that movie with Cameron Diaz, only a lot more sinister. A few thoughts:
1. The Oliver chapter was unnecessary and just kind of weird. The only functional purpose in my mind was to reveal Oliver's actual name and background, and that could have been accomplished by having Picasso share the secret box with the Detectives
2. I did not like "The Wives" joint, stream of consciousness chapters. I would have rather had snippets from each individual wives.
3. I don't see how all three wives changed their minds about killing Oliver, as was alluded to in their last meeting. Diana softens after he confesses to her about the other wives but then she listens to Bert's voicemail and realizes Oliver said the same thing to her. So maybe Bert believed it, but Diana wouldn't have after that moment. And Jewels still wanted to kill him and even flew there to do so. So I don't see how Oliver "won" by driving them away from each other - when at least two of them were not on Team Oliver right before he was killed.
4. I guess it was a nice twist to have Picasso be the shooter but I wanted a better explanation/justification for her actions than what I got. The Unsmile seemed to be what pushed her over the edge.
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1. The Oliver chapter was unnecessary and just kind of weird. The only functional purpose in my mind was to reveal Oliver's actual name and background, and that could have been accomplished by having Picasso share the secret box with the Detectives
2. I did not like "The Wives" joint, stream of consciousness chapters. I would have rather had snippets from each individual wives.
3. I don't see how all three wives changed their minds about killing Oliver, as was alluded to in their last meeting. Diana softens after he confesses to her about the other wives but then she listens to Bert's voicemail and realizes Oliver said the same thing to her. So maybe Bert believed it, but Diana wouldn't have after that moment. And Jewels still wanted to kill him and even flew there to do so. So I don't see how Oliver "won" by driving them away from each other - when at least two of them were not on Team Oliver right before he was killed.
4. I guess it was a nice twist to have Picasso be the shooter but I wanted a better explanation/justification for her actions than what I got. The Unsmile seemed to be what pushed her over the edge.