A review by onthesamepage
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack

funny mysterious medium-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

The narrative voice is funny enough at first, but the 200+ footnotes, most of which were genuinely useless and many of which were repetitive to boot, wore me down by the end. The cast of characters was interesting enough, and I appreciated the romantic subplot as well. Would love to see more of Allison—she seemed way too cool to be hanging out with the rest of them.

I don't think the mystery is very unpredictable if you've been reading within the genre for a while, but it was still entertaining.
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