A review by bookaroundandfindout
Reasonable by K.T. Carlisle

4.0

Wow, let me see where to unpack this! First of all, this book really took me by surprise. What starts out as seeming like a predictable "who done it" type of murder mystery slowly turns into a chaotic mess in the best way possible that left me hurrying through the last pages only to find out there are TWO books left and we don't even completely know or have evidence for the REAL killer!! We start with one of the main characters Cat, waking up in a pool of blood with a knife in her hand, her best friend murdered, and no memory of if she did it or not. That in itself sounds crazy but the plot only thickens. The reader is taking back and forth through time and different point of views and honestly for me at first (and this is why I have 4 stars) it was very confusing. I felt like I was having whiplash. But please be patient because towards the first fourth of the book ending you start seeing that there is a bigger picture unraveling. Cat is a pretty annoying FMC and I think that's the point considering she is kind of a mess, which makes her the perfect scapegoat right? Or did she actually black out and lose it? Did she murder more people? We don't know! I enjoyed the different perspectives, especially when we move away from Cat's POV and into the mind of our FMC Detective that I really love. You get to see both sides of a crime being committed- the insightful side of the accused and the law and order side of the case itself. We are left on a serious cliffhanger which made me want to scream, all and all meaning that the book was pretty good for the first one. I look forward to the next one that will be released in May and I hope to see improvement in some of the writing flow and more action now that the backdrop of the story has been established. Give it a read it's a great poolside or vacation novel!