A review by maiahhtratchh
How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

dark funny reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

There were aspects of this books I loved and others I wasn’t a fan of. Despite literally being a book literally about murder it was quite light hearted and quirky. I enjoyed how the story was told and I did like the character of Grace, even though she is flawed, i like her in a “good for her” type way. One of the major issues I took from it was that I feel like her motive could have been flushed out more. Like I was just under the cup of really supporting her… I needed the reasoning to just be a bit more. I actually enjoyed the ending, I thought it left it really open ended which is how this needs to be because there really was no good way to wrap it up.
okay so now the big issues I have, other then motivation. For someone SO SMART AND CALCULATED with her murders …. How did she write down her murders in a notebook in prison and not expect Kelly to read it?? She literally talks about reading Kelly’s and how Kelly is so nosey so this just was such a gap in logic and left a bad taste in my mouth. The entire time I was thinking that it was stupid she was doing that and hoping I just misunderstood and she was mentally journaling her story but no… she physically wrote it down. Yeah I just really hated that. Other then that it would’ve been 4 stars but that aspect brought it down the 3.75
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