A review by seakay05
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

5.0

I tend to be biased towards books that make me cry and even more so towards ones that make me laugh out loud. The Thursday Murder Club did both, so I'm rounding up my 4.5-star rating to 5! Osman does such a great job of completely shocking you, and he does it again and again throughout this novel, especially towards the end. I think my only complaint (which I concede!) is that it gets a little slow to read at some points, and I found that it's really important to absorb everything that happens. It makes sense since it takes a lot of work and exposition to set up such an intricate conclusion, but I wonder if it would have been possible to keep the pace up throughout. That being said, I love the Murder Club itself and the unique voices Osman creates for each of its members, and I echo so many of those critics' reviews in the beginning when I call this book poignant above everything else. These are characters that have lived so long and seen so much, and it's a pleasure to see through their eyes.