A review by a_well_read_life
The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler

4.0

I've never read anything quite like this book. It isn't often that a book that tells you who was murdered and who committed the crime right up front manages to surprise you and keep you guessing but this book did. The closer I got to the murder the more difficult this book became to put down. I found the progression of Flannery's narration to be particularly interesting. If you like books with unreliable narrators this is about as unreliable as they get. This was my first time reading something by Daniel Handler rather than "Lemony Snicket" but you could definitely see glimpses of the writing style that people love in the Series of Unfortunate Events books. A good read, but not for the faint of heart.