A review by jbolwerk8
People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins

3.0

Really a 2.5 for me, which is unfortunate. I love love love looooove Ellen Hopkins, she is probably my favorite author. I can understand and appreciate 100% what she was trying to do with this book, but it was just not quite what I was expecting. It has the tough topic that her books usually do, but I didn't really like the "violence" narrator...none of his sections, once the other characters were introduced, made sense to me. It also didn't have her typical back and forth prose that I adore; it was more just like a story with multiple narrators. Also, there was a ton of hype throughout the book as to "who is going to be the one to pull the trigger?" and once this part actually happened, it was very anticlimactic. I don't know if I just haven't read her in a while (granted, I haven't read a lot of her newer works), but I wasn't in love with it.