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A review by zeeohee
A Beginner's Guide to Murder by Rosalind Stopps
3.0
Three elderly women who know each other purely through a Pilates class are pulled into a young girls life when she stumbles into a coffee shop and asks for their help. From there both hilarity and some dark stuff goes down. The book goes back and forth between the present and several months previous to show how events end up as they do. Mixed in are memories from the three elderly women and their lives.
This book might’ve been higher rated for me but I think I was thrown off. I thought I was getting something more akin to a cozy mystery and instead got something that deals with some darker aspects of humanity. It is a solid 3 stars for the below reasons.
Overall, the book was a fun read and I really loved that the main characters were all older women and how we got to know their inner lives and see them as people (which often doesn’t happen when elderly people, especially women identifying, are portrayed).
I do think I got a little lost in the middle and lost some interest. Like it could’ve ended a bit earlier. No spoilers but there’s a repetitive thing that happens that felt like it dragged a little.
Lots of funny quips, interesting nods to world events/ideas, and solid writing.
POV jumps around quite a bit and I sometimes got a little confused but mostly stayed with it.
Would not recommend to my mom. Would recommend to someone who loves true crime.
This book might’ve been higher rated for me but I think I was thrown off. I thought I was getting something more akin to a cozy mystery and instead got something that deals with some darker aspects of humanity. It is a solid 3 stars for the below reasons.
Overall, the book was a fun read and I really loved that the main characters were all older women and how we got to know their inner lives and see them as people (which often doesn’t happen when elderly people, especially women identifying, are portrayed).
I do think I got a little lost in the middle and lost some interest. Like it could’ve ended a bit earlier. No spoilers but there’s a repetitive thing that happens that felt like it dragged a little.
Lots of funny quips, interesting nods to world events/ideas, and solid writing.
POV jumps around quite a bit and I sometimes got a little confused but mostly stayed with it.
Would not recommend to my mom. Would recommend to someone who loves true crime.