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A review by one4ale
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
5.0
I've never been so happy to be wrong about a book, despite how sad it makes me. I thought this book would be more booktok schlock, made for consumption and book hauls, that did a mystery because the author thought it's easy. Completely wrong.
As a mystery it's alright. The idea is good and interesting enough to keep me hooked throughout, but the clues and so don't lead to more than twists and some good reveals. Ultimately, the entire mystery is explained away, if only because the clues could not paint the whole picture (though they did point in the general direction).
The real punch of this was the characters. i loved them, all of them, their dynamics with each other, their backgrounds, the little quirks that separated them so it wasn't obvious that one guy wrote everyone. I say it makes me sad because (sans mystery) it's a book about the elderly and their lives outside of a sensational tale, that which leaves a story about death, loneliness, and things worse than that.
As a mystery it's alright. The idea is good and interesting enough to keep me hooked throughout, but the clues and so don't lead to more than twists and some good reveals. Ultimately, the entire mystery is explained away, if only because the clues could not paint the whole picture (though they did point in the general direction).
The real punch of this was the characters. i loved them, all of them, their dynamics with each other, their backgrounds, the little quirks that separated them so it wasn't obvious that one guy wrote everyone. I say it makes me sad because (sans mystery) it's a book about the elderly and their lives outside of a sensational tale, that which leaves a story about death, loneliness, and things worse than that.