A review by ylshelflove
Death is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury

3.0

The best part of this book, in my opinion, is the unreliable nature of the narrator. The character himself is not really questionable, but what he chooses to reveal and what he doesn't explain adds to the mystery of the whole novel. The dynamic between the characters, including bits and pieces of their pasts, is unveiled chapter by chapter. For this book, that was the best way to do it, since technically it's a mystery book. The other interesting factor of this story was that the narrator was a writer. His personified interaction with his typewriter was fun to read, but also added one more layer of uncertainty. What's real? What's imagined? Is this a metaphor?

I rated this book 3 stars, however, partly because I felt that there were a few loose ends that were given too much mention to be ignored. Namely,

Spoiler

the eyes across the street.

The main reason I didn't rate the book higher was that the ending was far too anti-climatic. The whole book was structured to build up suspicion for each and every character, yet the final reveal was sudden and over much too quickly.