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Murder in the Family
by Cara Hunter
I don’t read a lot of crime, but Murder in the Family is a new social media hype, which is how I first heard about it. It’s premised as follows: an unsolved murder case and six experts in the field put together on a TV show trying to figure out what happened - can you, as a reader, solve it before they do? That sounded like a fun challenge, so @booksofamber and I decided to tackle it together to see if we could.
What’s fun about this book is that it’s written in multi media format, through TV transcripts, text messages, forum threads, emails, newspaper articles and more. You read every bit of evidence as it is presented to the experts, and so you are trying to figure out what happened right alongside them. If done well, I love books written in different formats. With this one, I wish they’d left out the newspaper articles because those dragged a lot for me, but the rest was great.
If you can, I would suggest reading this in physical format. I read the e-book, but I really wished I was able to flip back and forth more easily, because there are a million plot lines going on, and it was hard to keep track of everything. But then there is also just a lot of information thrown at you. There were two particular plot lines that I didn’t like: one because it seemed too far-fetched and one because it brushed over something major.
But other than that, I loved watching everything come together, and I did think the end was great, even though it was the first thing we predicted had happened when we started reading. And we read it in a little over 24 hours, so that’s definitely a good sign. I'm writing this review right after, so I'm still coming down from the high. If you're a fan of crime books and murder mystery games, I would definitely recommend this one.
What’s fun about this book is that it’s written in multi media format, through TV transcripts, text messages, forum threads, emails, newspaper articles and more. You read every bit of evidence as it is presented to the experts, and so you are trying to figure out what happened right alongside them. If done well, I love books written in different formats. With this one, I wish they’d left out the newspaper articles because those dragged a lot for me, but the rest was great.
If you can, I would suggest reading this in physical format. I read the e-book, but I really wished I was able to flip back and forth more easily, because there are a million plot lines going on, and it was hard to keep track of everything. But then there is also just a lot of information thrown at you. There were two particular plot lines that I didn’t like: one because it seemed too far-fetched and one because it brushed over something major.
But other than that, I loved watching everything come together, and I did think the end was great, even though it was the first thing we predicted had happened when we started reading. And we read it in a little over 24 hours, so that’s definitely a good sign. I'm writing this review right after, so I'm still coming down from the high. If you're a fan of crime books and murder mystery games, I would definitely recommend this one.