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A review by mmccombs
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
4.0
This was such an ambitious novel… maybe too ambitious! It was like the tv series Severance meets a whodunnit meets sci fi dystopia, and if that sounds like a lot of different things at once it’s because it was. In many ways I think this ambitiousness was incredibly engaging, it read very confidently so I was hooked from the start. There are so many moving pieces so I raced through it in order to put them all together. Emory was a fun character to follow, curious and empathetic and kind of a pain in the ass to everyone around her.
On the other hand, there were SO many moving pieces. Like too many. Also, the whole premise being an omnipresent entity asking some random person to solve a crime was kind of funny, so there were a few plot holes that came out of the concept just kind of being ridiculous. I personally did not enjoy the ending, the solve of the whodunnit was kind of disappointing and it felt like all of the air was let out of the book once we got the reveal.
On the whole though, this was so fun to read and I had a great time the whole way through. Kind of silly, kind of a lot, but very unique and bold and captivating nonetheless!
On the other hand, there were SO many moving pieces. Like too many. Also, the whole premise being an omnipresent entity asking some random person to solve a crime was kind of funny, so there were a few plot holes that came out of the concept just kind of being ridiculous. I personally did not enjoy the ending, the solve of the whodunnit was kind of disappointing and it felt like all of the air was let out of the book once we got the reveal.
On the whole though, this was so fun to read and I had a great time the whole way through. Kind of silly, kind of a lot, but very unique and bold and captivating nonetheless!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder