A review by cassie_b
The Serial Killer's Wife by Alice Hunter

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Predictable & clichéd. Characters are wooden & poorly (barely) fleshed out. MC is sickly sweet. To an extent this fits with the story but the foreshadowing generated by her thoughts & behaviour is just muddled. I finished it just to confirm what I already knew, but I wasn’t overly fussed by the unexplained “mysteries” (obvious next-episode prep). After I’d let my impressions brew overnight I realised it felt like the book had been written as a standard formulaic police procedural then, on realising the tale was fairly ordinary, the chapters were shuffled & several plots shoe-horned in, in an attempt to rescue the effort.