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A review by mollye123
Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater
3.0
Thank you NetGalley for an early copy of this debut!
This was wild! I’m leaning towards a 3/3.5 stars. I listened to the audio so maybe that affected my rating?!
For a start I feel like the book is mis-marketed in many ways especially with the title and description as I was expecting one of the booksellers to be murdered! Go into this blind-don’t read the description or any details about it.
The story follows Roach and Laura (booksellers). Roach absolutely adores true crime and her pet snail. Laura is the new mysterious girl who starts working at the book shop and from the get go Roach become absolutely obsessed with her, wanting to infiltrate her life and become her?!! It seemed Roach’s intentions were just to become best friends with Laura, or were they?!
I listened to this on audio so got only half of a feel for the writing style but the descriptions and the writing of the characters definitely made me feel creeped out and uneasy. I didn’t like the book, then I loved it, vice versa— a WILD ride!
I didn’t feel extremely connected to either Roach or Laura, mostly because I disliked them both so wasn’t rooting for either. The whole time I was waiting for a death or murder of one of them. They were both messy characters, in their lives and personalities not in the sense of how Slater wrote them. I loved Laura’s backstory and the true crime aspect and wish we could have touched more into that. I don’t think I really invested into the book until after the 50% mark but enjoyed it and how Slater wrapped the story up at the end
This was wild! I’m leaning towards a 3/3.5 stars. I listened to the audio so maybe that affected my rating?!
For a start I feel like the book is mis-marketed in many ways especially with the title and description as I was expecting one of the booksellers to be murdered! Go into this blind-don’t read the description or any details about it.
The story follows Roach and Laura (booksellers). Roach absolutely adores true crime and her pet snail. Laura is the new mysterious girl who starts working at the book shop and from the get go Roach become absolutely obsessed with her, wanting to infiltrate her life and become her?!! It seemed Roach’s intentions were just to become best friends with Laura, or were they?!
I listened to this on audio so got only half of a feel for the writing style but the descriptions and the writing of the characters definitely made me feel creeped out and uneasy. I didn’t like the book, then I loved it, vice versa— a WILD ride!
I didn’t feel extremely connected to either Roach or Laura, mostly because I disliked them both so wasn’t rooting for either. The whole time I was waiting for a death or murder of one of them. They were both messy characters, in their lives and personalities not in the sense of how Slater wrote them. I loved Laura’s backstory and the true crime aspect and wish we could have touched more into that. I don’t think I really invested into the book until after the 50% mark but enjoyed it and how Slater wrapped the story up at the end