A review by diziet
Maeve Fly by CJ Leede

dark funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Disney princess by day, killer by night. Real skeleton Halloween decorations - so good that cop ask if he can get help to decorate his house. Halloween costumes with real blood. 

There is a lot to like in CJ Leede’s Maeve Fly - a female take on American Psycho. With the dark humor angle of ‘Patrick Bateman arguing with dry-cleaner about getting blood out of sheets’.

But too many serial killers in one place and Maeve as character is not quite convincing - or funny. Going in too many different and opposite directions: caring for grandmother and cat, attachment to Kate and her brother, deep involvement with job, complete self-absorption,  and extreme - and way way out there - torture & murder.

Killings escalate in goriness way too fast…and it just becomes kinda silly, and not scary. Except that scene
with the hot iron.
That is a huge big noppity nope nope. 

The rats are ewwww in American Psycho
and mice likewise here. I mean I get it with the mouse - but still, just no.
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