A review by novi
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad slow-paced
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

This is more of a murder mystery than a thriller. It took a slow cozy approach, although at times can be a bit tense, but overall it's not action-packed or suspenseful. 

I think I'll like it more if the whole book is narrated from Joyce's point of view because her chapters are always has funny bits and I looove old people's first person's narration. Joyce is the only first person pov here, though. The other chapters was narrated through third person point of view and I didn't really enjoy it. 

I think the mystery is all over the place. There are twists here and there but it wasn't satisfying to me and it made me lose interest/care about the mystery.
I like my mystery to be wrapped nicely in one. Like, clues or the occurrences might seem scattered or didn't have connection with one another but in the end they're all connected. But here, they're not connected at all. In fact there were really separated from one another. You could say they're red herrings, but usually we never knew what these red herrings were actually about. But here, the book gave us closures for these red herrings. And it quite upsets me. The author might think that it's clever, because those closures are the twists. But I was actually hoping for something more and ended up with something that came out of Chicken Soup for the Soul or something (i've never read those though so i don't know). And one of those red herrings (I'm talking about Bernard's plotlines here) we were not even let to be invested in it yet, and then suddenly the closure came and the resolution of it just made me like..... "Um... Okay??". All I'm saying is, it's all so convoluted for nothing.


And Chris gotta stop being relatable. Like seriously. Stop. Ittttt. I don't want to relate to an old police officer but this book keeps attacking me for no reason. 
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