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The Death I Gave Him
by Em X. Liu
Hayden Lichfield stumbles upon his father’s dead body in his lab. Hayden knows that the killer was after the Sisyphus Formula that he and his father were working on. His father’s instructions after death are very clear - avenge him! Now Hayden must figure out which of the four other people at Elsinore Labs that night is behind it. But searching for the truth will break Hayden’s already fragile psyche. Everyone has secrets and it won’t be easy untangling them all.
This wanted to be a locked-room murder mystery based on Hamlet, but it’s just a mess. Yes, it’s based on Hamlet, but that means there is no mystery, as Hamlet is very well-known and the killer is named within the first fifty pages. The prose itself is meandering, stream-of-consciousness, and gives conflicting descriptions and continuity errors. And it’s supposedly written from multiple viewpoints but the voices all sound the same.
Content warning: self-harm, suicide ideation.
This wanted to be a locked-room murder mystery based on Hamlet, but it’s just a mess. Yes, it’s based on Hamlet, but that means there is no mystery, as Hamlet is very well-known and the killer is named within the first fifty pages. The prose itself is meandering, stream-of-consciousness, and gives conflicting descriptions and continuity errors. And it’s supposedly written from multiple viewpoints but the voices all sound the same.
Content warning: self-harm, suicide ideation.