Scan barcode
A review by rosagogo
A Beginner's Guide to Murder by Rosalind Stopps
adventurous
emotional
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Booksource: Netgalley in exchange for review.
I love crime thrillers, but they have to grab me, I get very tired if I am not immediately in love with the characters. Enter this book... It took me five seconds to immediately care about this Grandmas Girl Gang and want to read their adventures for pages to go.
A short synopsis: Three old women meet a young girl in danger and they decide that the only way to help her is killing the man who is trying to hurt her. Please check the tw before reading this book, here is a short list: Confinement, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Starvation
The writing is light, the characters are compelling and tridimensional. The book circles around the four protagonists, three older women (Meg, Grace, and Daphne) and a young girl (Nina) in a difficult situation. Every episode is narrated from the point of view of one of the main characters, and I think that's what makes this book so special, it allows us to out ourselves in the skins of theses three older women and see them as people, not to be immediately categorised as "sweet fragile grandmas". Meg, Grace, and Daphne have had full lives of which we are allowed to see glimpses of once they start fighting to help Nina, and even though their age is a weakness is the physical strength, it makes them wiser and braver, "the devil knows more because he's old than for being the devil". I think we tend to dismiss teenagers and older people as people without a proper life, ones because they are too young to understand the burdens of the world and the others because they are too old and then get treated like children, with which we forget that this are individuals and have their own history behind them . This book breaks with that tradition with a lot of grace, and shows us four strong women, each in its own way, none of them free of trauma, but none of them lacking a fighting spirit.
I have already bought a couple of copies of this book to gift them to the people I love, what a fun read.
I love crime thrillers, but they have to grab me, I get very tired if I am not immediately in love with the characters. Enter this book... It took me five seconds to immediately care about this Grandmas Girl Gang and want to read their adventures for pages to go.
A short synopsis: Three old women meet a young girl in danger and they decide that the only way to help her is killing the man who is trying to hurt her. Please check the tw before reading this book, here is a short list: Confinement, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Starvation
The writing is light, the characters are compelling and tridimensional. The book circles around the four protagonists, three older women (Meg, Grace, and Daphne) and a young girl (Nina) in a difficult situation. Every episode is narrated from the point of view of one of the main characters, and I think that's what makes this book so special, it allows us to out ourselves in the skins of theses three older women and see them as people, not to be immediately categorised as "sweet fragile grandmas". Meg, Grace, and Daphne have had full lives of which we are allowed to see glimpses of once they start fighting to help Nina, and even though their age is a weakness is the physical strength, it makes them wiser and braver, "the devil knows more because he's old than for being the devil". I think we tend to dismiss teenagers and older people as people without a proper life, ones because they are too young to understand the burdens of the world and the others because they are too old and then get treated like children, with which we forget that this are individuals and have their own history behind them . This book breaks with that tradition with a lot of grace, and shows us four strong women, each in its own way, none of them free of trauma, but none of them lacking a fighting spirit.
I have already bought a couple of copies of this book to gift them to the people I love, what a fun read.