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A review by aarony_22
Win Lose Kill Die by Cynthia Murphy
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
I thought it was okay at the beginning, sounded a lot like your typical high school stuff thing with a bit of senseless romance and murder and cult stuff sprinkled in.
Wasn't particularly interesting, I lived for the murderer POVs that came up sometime.
That ending. Completely fucked up, not foreseeable at all, didn't make sense that after all Liz herself is the murderer they're searching for, because apparently only minutes after her hit on the head it did something to her and brought her over the edge to kill after her already bad childhood?
Does that make sense to me? I don't think so.
This was the most unreliable narrator I've ever seen probable. So unreliable that you didn't even feel the unreliability.
For others, this kind of unexpected and honestly kind of shit ending, as personally I do not see any foreshadowing for it which I don't like would've probably ruined it. Not any head injury automatically results in becoming a psychopathic killer. Still, endings where the bad one wins.... and any kind of book/text/paragraph written out of the enemies perspective have my heart.
I thought Liz was boring, which she was until the end, until she became a boring serial killer. Cool.