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This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead
dark
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Meh. I really wanted to love this. I've been seeing some glowing early reviews and was excited to dive in. Like with most thrillers, I went in blind. I should probably stop doing that.
I'll give it to Ashley Winstead - she writes propulsive books. This one is decently long and I read it in 4 days and accidentally stayed up way too late hooked by short chapters last night. But that didn't make up for the many things I didn't like/connect with:
- For starters, I am not at all interested in true crime. If you are, I can see you being more excited with the baseline premise of this book.
- This book requires a high level of suspension of disbelief. Without spoilers, SO much information is supposedly shared with amateur internet sleuths and I just couldn't get over how unbeliavable it was. I liked some of the commentary on true crime fanatics and how it can mess with police work, but the plot took it too far and I didn't buy any of it/the commentary didn't go far enough to warrant its ridiculousness.
- The actual mystery was very, very obvious??? I wanted to be at least a bit surprised by any details, but wasn't. I'm genuinely not sure if it was supposed to be obvious or not.
- Since I am not a true crime girlie, I didn't know the central murders are based on a real case. I've since looked it up and am not sure how I feel about the significant overlapping in details...why was that necessary? I'm not sure what this was trying to achieve by using real details.
I have a feeling people are going to really like this one, but overall it's just wasn't really for me.
Thank you Sourcebooks and NetGalley for the gifted e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I'll give it to Ashley Winstead - she writes propulsive books. This one is decently long and I read it in 4 days and accidentally stayed up way too late hooked by short chapters last night. But that didn't make up for the many things I didn't like/connect with:
- For starters, I am not at all interested in true crime. If you are, I can see you being more excited with the baseline premise of this book.
- This book requires a high level of suspension of disbelief. Without spoilers, SO much information is supposedly shared with amateur internet sleuths and I just couldn't get over how unbeliavable it was. I liked some of the commentary on true crime fanatics and how it can mess with police work, but the plot took it too far and I didn't buy any of it/the commentary didn't go far enough to warrant its ridiculousness.
- The actual mystery was very, very obvious??? I wanted to be at least a bit surprised by any details, but wasn't. I'm genuinely not sure if it was supposed to be obvious or not.
- Since I am not a true crime girlie, I didn't know the central murders are based on a real case. I've since looked it up and am not sure how I feel about the significant overlapping in details...why was that necessary? I'm not sure what this was trying to achieve by using real details.
I have a feeling people are going to really like this one, but overall it's just wasn't really for me.
Thank you Sourcebooks and NetGalley for the gifted e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.