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A review by rpych2
All The Blood We Share by Camilla Bruce
3.0
I like that this truly put the fiction in historical fiction, because the Benders were never caught and we have very little information about them. So it was fun to see the author’s creative vision at work when it came to the characterization of them and what ultimately became of them.
I loved how they basically characterized Kate as the mastermind of all of it, as well as using her business as a medium as a grift (because I’ve always personally believed that psychics/mediums are the biggest con-artists out there). The gruesome details were great as well, and I like how each character devolved in a different way as the murders were piling up.
The two things I didn’t love though were how cartoonishly dumb John was. How has nobody sat him down and told him to get over his stepsister and move on with his life so his temper and jealousy doesn’t get them caught? (Which is truly a disgusting sentence to even write out). And unfortunately, I don’t think the writing style was necessarily for me, though I did like the story a lot. And I think that came down to too much talk of Kate’s suitors and too many interludes of Hanson when the outsider’s perspective didn’t add as much. Still a really fun story though.
I loved how they basically characterized Kate as the mastermind of all of it, as well as using her business as a medium as a grift (because I’ve always personally believed that psychics/mediums are the biggest con-artists out there). The gruesome details were great as well, and I like how each character devolved in a different way as the murders were piling up.
The two things I didn’t love though were how cartoonishly dumb John was. How has nobody sat him down and told him to get over his stepsister and move on with his life so his temper and jealousy doesn’t get them caught? (Which is truly a disgusting sentence to even write out). And unfortunately, I don’t think the writing style was necessarily for me, though I did like the story a lot. And I think that came down to too much talk of Kate’s suitors and too many interludes of Hanson when the outsider’s perspective didn’t add as much. Still a really fun story though.