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A review by michael_benavidez
A Murderous Adventure by Sonny March
4.0
This book is interesting. It's dark, morbid, taking the POV of someone absolutely unlikable, but also written in a very brutally honest and blunt manner.
March does nothing to make the main character personable or sympathetic, and that's to the story's benefit. Despite being from his point of view, and despite the total bluntness of the narrating, we are kept at arm's length. Even as we get glimpses into the true nature, the dark moments of the character, we are treated like the very same people around him: an annoyance.
Throughout the story I kept getting the feeling of an edgy teen kid who just thinks themselves the total badass, and I don't know how much of that is intentional or not. But it creates this air of unreliable narrator, putting on blinders that really pay off.
Even in moments that might give way to a conscious are kept walled up and held at arm's length from the reader and shut down by the main character himself.
There's a deep potential to March and his writing, some things could have used more detail, a polished description for the bigger moments. All in all I'm genuinely curious as to what other stories he has to tell.
A bit rough around the edges, it still manages to be a thrilling ride.
March does nothing to make the main character personable or sympathetic, and that's to the story's benefit. Despite being from his point of view, and despite the total bluntness of the narrating, we are kept at arm's length. Even as we get glimpses into the true nature, the dark moments of the character, we are treated like the very same people around him: an annoyance.
Throughout the story I kept getting the feeling of an edgy teen kid who just thinks themselves the total badass, and I don't know how much of that is intentional or not. But it creates this air of unreliable narrator, putting on blinders that really pay off.
Even in moments that might give way to a conscious are kept walled up and held at arm's length from the reader and shut down by the main character himself.
There's a deep potential to March and his writing, some things could have used more detail, a polished description for the bigger moments. All in all I'm genuinely curious as to what other stories he has to tell.
A bit rough around the edges, it still manages to be a thrilling ride.