A review by ellieb_reads
Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

This didn’t hit how I wanted it to. The biggest problem for me were the main character’s initial decisions. (This is on the book jacket, not a spoiler). She arrives at her student’s home to find the parents dead and a woman locked in a closet, and her instinct is to assume she’ll be blamed and go on the run with closet woman. Why?! There’s no backstory that explains this bananas choice, and it just seemed so unbelievable that I couldn’t totally enjoy everything that came after. And the rest of the story is actually quite interesting, a slow burn “Thelma and Louise but make it gay” thriller with a few twisty surprises. The writing was pretty good as well. But I couldn’t get past the beginning premise, and ultimately ended the book feeling very meh about it.