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i don't take the energy to write out a full rant review, so here'south some ranty bullet points:
• the book had a potent premise and good commencement, which is what made me purchase the £15(!!!) hardback bc i read the sample of the first chapter and enjoyed it, just unfortunately from then on it went completely off track
• the entire volume was FAR as well long-winded, full of so many unnecessary details/stories of the protagonist
this book was honestly me when i'm struggling to reach the word count on an essay.i don't take the energy to write out a full rant review, and then here's some ranty bullet points:
• the book had a strong premise and good start, which is what made me purchase the £15(!!!) hardback bc i read the sample of the first chapter and enjoyed it, simply unfortunately from then on it went completely off track
• the entire volume was FAR too long-winded, full of so many unnecessary details/stories of the protagonist rambling on. i wanted to print out the manuscript and cross out paragraphs/pages with a red pen.
• information technology was trying as well difficult to sound funny/witty - mostly with a lot of millennial humour, and abiding snipes at influencers and cyberspace-obsessed immature people (ok boomer)
• i thought it was going to follow the protagonist plotting all the different murders - but that was barely focused on at all. instead of focusing on the story/plot, the protagonist goes on irrelevant rants about social/cultural observations which were clearly made by the writer e.k. there was a large passage well-nigh the dangers of smart devices and smart homes. if the author wanted to write about these observations, why didn't she just write an essay collection???
• information technology was trying too hard to come beyond as feminist - simply then information technology also wasn't very feminist at the aforementioned time?? it had an air of a circa 2010 'pick me' feminist who peculiarly hates women who go lip fillers
• 1 of the main themes of the book was about class, simply it wasn't actually discussed in any profound style, and it actually became quite trite after a while. basically the whole book involved snipes at the rich/the upper classes (which i'yard usually all here for) but THEN i discovered that the author of this volume is alan rusbridger's daughter and her grandpa is a businesswoman….so she clearly moves in some privileged social circles herself, not exactly a working class hero. afterwards that little discovery, the constant digs at privileged white people prompted a few eye rolls from me.
• i was attracted to this book bc of the anti-heroine hope equally i dearest an unlikeable, morally grey female person character - merely grace every bit a character was far too muddled, and it was articulate that the author however hadn't fully fleshed her out. she was clearly meant to exist a character in the vein of villanelle from 'killing eve', just she was nowhere near equally interesting or compelling
• the 'twist' catastrophe was disappointing to me, and basically rendered the whole book pointless.
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My family: O_O
- fat people
- women - bonus points for plastic surgery
- asian people
- onetime people
- people with dementia
- gay people
- people with eating disorders
- mentally ill people
- people who similar frogs
- rich people
- also poor people
- teenagers
- people who struggle with addiction
- stupid people
- pret
- heart anile women
- people who accept baths
- pansexual people
-people with chronic illnesses
-people who care about social issues
-influencers of any kind
- her mum
- one d groups that this hideous main character hates
- fat people
- women - bonus points for plastic surgery
- asian people
- sometime people
- people with dementia
- gay people
- people with eating disorders
- mentally ill people
- people who like frogs
- rich people
- also poor people
- teenagers
- people who struggle with addiction
- stupid people
- pret
- middle anile women
- people who have baths
- pansexual people
-people with chronic illnesses
-people who intendance nigh social bug
-influencers of whatsoever kind
- her mum
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How To Kill Your Family follows Grace who is on a mission to get rid of the family who wronged her and have their fortune. However, she is currently serving fourth dimension for a murder that she did not commit.
In all honesty, I picked this book up because of the title, I thought it was wonderfully brilliant. I will never forget the await on my mum's confront when I asked her to take hold of my reservation from the library. The book wasn't quite what I had expected, I had expected a
Rounded up from roughly iii.5 stars ⭐️How To Kill Your Family follows Grace who is on a mission to get rid of the family who wronged her and accept their fortune. Notwithstanding, she is currently serving fourth dimension for a murder that she did not commit.
In all honesty, I picked this book up because of the title, I idea it was wonderfully brilliant. I will never forget the look on my mum's face when I asked her to grab my reservation from the library. The book wasn't quite what I had expected, I had expected a bored housewife, only that is my own fault for not reading the blurb beginning! I absolutely adored the witty humour and sarcasm. Often I institute myself chuckling at a throw away comment from Grace that absolutely hit the smash on the head about real life.
My biggest issue with the book was the long capacity! Some of the chapters lengths were fine, which would lull me into a imitation sense of security! I can sympathize why the chapters were laid out as they were, but I really wish the longer ones had been cleaved upward. A few times I had to put the book downwards halfway through a chapter which I actually don't like to do! That being said, I loved the characters and how different they all were. Although most of them were absolutely terrible people, they felt so brilliant and I did desire to know what happened to them. I tin can honestly say I've never read a book quite like this before.
I recommend this volume to fans of thrillers with a touch of humour.
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Tin can you imagine being locked upwardly for a murder you didn't commit? Just the thought brings me feet, and that'southward the state of affairs Grace Bernard is in.
That doesn't mean she'south innocent.
Dear Grace has really murdered 6 people...and she'southward gotten abroad with information technology.
How unfair that she finds herself as a prisoner when nobody knows the crimes she really committed...and why she killed those folks.
How To Kill Your Family is a dark, sometimes brutal, please of a novel that had me
A bodaciously bonkers book!Tin you imagine being locked upwards for a murder yous didn't commit? Merely the thought brings me anxiety, and that'southward the situation Grace Bernard is in.
That doesn't mean she's innocent.
Beloved Grace has actually murdered 6 people...and she's gotten away with it.
How unfair that she finds herself equally a prisoner when nobody knows the crimes she actually committed...and why she killed those folks.
How To Kill Your Family is a night, sometimes brutal, delight of a novel that had me giggling one moment and cringing the side by side. This is not a cozy story, just there is Enough of dark humor and snark, which I adore. Grace is non an affections, and this may sound terrible, simply I really liked her and rooted for her the whole time.
This volume was trending at 3.5 stars, but the catastrophe is so deliciously wicked, twisted, and unexpected...that I just had to bump it upward!
I highly recommend it if you're looking for an original and sometimes outrageously entertaining story, but exist advised this is definitely an 'R'-rated read.
Shoutout to Ceecee for putting this book on my radar. I couldn't look to get my easily on it after reading her enticing review. Another shoutout to my local library, who ordered a copy for me to devour after I suggested the championship.
Now bachelor.
Review too posted at: https://bonkersforthebooks.wordpress.com
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I think we're supposed to find Grace funny; something of a witty anti-hero. She'due south simply really, really unlikeable. Shallow, self-indulged; a hateful snob- it's hard to listen to 9 hours (audiobook) of someone you fu
For a book most a 'sharp' young woman who murders multiple people in a calculated deed of revenge, this book is disappointingly apartment. Grace is in prison house for a murder she did not commit, writing her life story nigh all the ones she did. As per the title, she's been killing off her family unit.I call up we're supposed to notice Grace funny; something of a witty anti-hero. She's simply really, really unlikeable. Shallow, self-indulged; a mean snob- information technology's hard to listen to nine hours (audiobook) of someone you fundamentally dislike.
Her raison d'être is uninspired and although there's a shoulder-shrug of a twist, the ending was anticlimactic. It's neither a thriller nor really a domestic drama, but the diary of one very churlish private littered with judgemental stereotypes. Unfortunately I'd hoped for a lot more from this volume.
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this was a three-star read (entertaining merely forgettable) until the third to terminal chapter that introduced a man i institute even more unlikeable than Grace's initial rich family unit members and who managed to make everything near himself and was exuding and so much male entitlement and audacity that it simply ruined
a adult female doing all the hard and dirty piece of work herself and a white cishet man swooping in last second, challenge all the fruits of her labor, belittling her and boasting about "his" achievements - a classicthis was a 3-star read (entertaining just forgettable) until the 3rd to concluding affiliate that introduced a homo i constitute even more unlikeable than Grace'due south initial rich family members and who managed to make everything about himself and was exuding so much male entitlement and audacity that it just ruined the entire book for me
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Beginning of all, let'south deal with Grace. She's definitely an awful person, she's vengeful, superior, a snob and has her ain very
Grace Bernard is in Limehouse Prison serving a sentence for a crime she didn't commit but that doesn't mean to say she hasn't committed some! To relieve the boredom and the inane chatter of jail cell mate Kelly she decides to write her astonishing story. This tell all explains exactly what she is guilty of! This is a novel most rejection and betrayal, revenge and retribution.First of all, let's deal with Grace. She'south definitely an awful person, she'due south vengeful, superior, a snob and has her own very specific belief system which she doesn't hesitate to share with usa and her narrative is peppered with her judgements from the highest to the low! And yet, and however .... I tin can't help liking her and I know I shouldn't every bit she'due south done some truly awful things to some truly atrocious people. She's very funny (information technology'south black humour of course) and I confess to liking her wry dark manner and admiring her superb put down lines and wish I'd idea of them! What she tells you lot in her confession makes your jaw driblet with her audacity. Information technology'south devilishly succulent and deviously dastardly. The characterisation is extremely practiced and at that place'due south a good mix of some to like, some to make your fists and teeth clench and some are then odiously unlikeable they deserve all they get. There are occasions in the narrative where you burst out laughing only it's 1 of those laughs y'all know you shouldn't release so y'all check over your shoulder to bank check no 1's heard!!! The tell all journal works well although there's a chip of repetition in some places and the occasional dip in pace. There are some good plot twists that you don't see coming and some instances of irresistible irony.
Overall, this is very easy to read, it'due south well written, I beloved the darkly wry fashion of the author who has caused a new fan!
With thanks to NetGalley and particularly to HarperCollins, Harper Fiction, The Borough Printing for the much appreciated arc in return for an honest review.
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This was a fabulously fun crime read, I just could non assist liking Grace, my only gripe was with the final twists which come out of the blue and not how I would preferred to encounter the book end.
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She is quite proud of the fact that she got away with it-so when she ends up in jail, defendant of a murder she didn't commit-she decides to brag about the ones she is guilty of committing-by writing about them in a journal that she hopes someone volition discover locked in a safety, i day after she is expressionless and buried.
This is
When Grace Bernard discovered that her absentee millionaire father had rejected her dying mother'south pleas for help, she vows revenge and sets near killing every member of his family.She is quite proud of the fact that she got abroad with it-so when she ends up in jail, accused of a murder she didn't commit-she decides to brag almost the ones she is guilty of committing-by writing almost them in a journal that she hopes someone will find locked in a safety, i day after she is dead and buried.
This is that story!
I expected to enjoy this ane more than than I did, simply plant at that place to be also much back story which seemed like unnecessary filler that slowed the pace down to a crawl! 400 pages was just too long.
I wanted the MURDERS to occur more chop-chop than they did!!! 🙄
Still, Grace had to exist the FUNNIEST, SNARKIEST most SARCASTIC character that I take E'er met, and I enjoyed her dark humor! I was laughing out loud, something I rarely do!! 🤪
Not sure what that says about me!
Bachelor Now!
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i reeeally enjoyed this! idea it was so funny and clever.
i love me some true crime one-act podcasts, so this was correct up my street :))
Hated it.
Go read My Sis The Serial Killer instead.
An detestable toothless mess. Muddled construction, muddled characterisation, muddled tone, muddled course politics. 2012 Guardian stance writer feminism (she'south not similar other girls! She hates the Kardashians and women with big lips!). An absolutely pathetic motivation and limp 'twist' ending.Hated it.
Become read My Sis The Serial Killer instead.
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Kudos to Mackie. Grace may not be a sympathetic grapheme, but she was oddly relatable and I was happy to go on for the ride as she dispatched 1 victim subsequently some other. There'south a great night, snar Needless to say, this isn't a cozy mystery. Not with that title. Grace is a psychopath. She may exist in jail for a murder she didn't commit, just that'southward not to say she'southward innocent. As she'southward happy to recount to the reader in all the gory item, she plotted and executed the murders of her begetter'south family.
Kudos to Mackie. Grace may non exist a sympathetic character, just she was oddly relatable and I was happy to get along for the ride equally she dispatched i victim later on some other. There's a bully dark, snarky humor to Grace that I loved.
The plot was a tad uneven and there were times I felt a better editing job might have helped. But that said, I desperately wanted to see how it would all play out. There was a great twist at the end that I didn't see coming. This is great entertainment for those that aren't overnice.
Charlie Clive did a super task every bit Grace. She made the graphic symbol come alive for me.
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From prison she regales us with her story, and what a story information technology is. Filled with dark humor, snark (my fave!), and the juicy details of her life along with the artistic offing of six members of her family, she had me laughing out loud. Kudos to the
When Grace discovers her bio dad, a millionaire, rejected her and her dying mother, she decides to enact her revenge by killing the entire family. Yet, in a strange twist of fate, she is bedevilled and sent to prison for the i murder she DIDN'T commit.From prison house she regales us with her story, and what a story information technology is. Filled with dark humor, snark (my fave!), and the juicy details of her life forth with the creative offing of six members of her family, she had me laughing out loud. Kudos to the author for writing such an engaging villain.
If you similar snark, irony, and dark sense of humor, and are willing to not take the book likewise seriously this is fun and fresh. If you liked Dexter, and/or the humor of Joe in You, or Paul in Best Mean solar day E'er, then you will dearest Grace. The twist toward the end was the icing on the block.
*The audiobook is narrated by Charly Clive, Paul Panting, who were excellent!
* A caveat: in that location is a political jab made early in the book, so I set it aside, but the positive reviews of Goodreads friends (Ceecee, Michael, and Jayne) led me to selection it upwards once more. Thankfully, information technology was just the one instance. To exist clear, I read to escape, and don't want to see Any political jabs from either side of aisle, fifty-fifty if their beliefs marshal with my own.
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darkest, funniest, juiciest, and near twisted read of 2021.
HOW TO KILL YOUR Family unit takes the proverbial proverb "Don't get mad, get even" to exciting new levels.
Yes, this volume is truly in a league of its own. It's spooky and disturbing; yet, also LOL humorous.
SOME Communication: If reading a book entitled HOW TO Impale YOUR Family unit deeply troubles you, close your eyes, agree your nose, snag this book.....and READ ON.
The volume'due south villainous and enchanting prota
Definitely my nomination for THE snarkiest,darkest, funniest, juiciest, and most twisted read of 2021.
HOW TO KILL YOUR Family takes the proverbial maxim "Don't get mad, get fifty-fifty" to exciting new levels.
Yes, this book is truly in a league of its ain. It's chilling and disturbing; yet, also LOL humorous.
SOME Advice: If reading a book entitled HOW TO Kill YOUR FAMILY deeply troubles y'all, close your optics, agree your olfactory organ, snag this book.....and READ ON.
The book's villainous and enchanting protagonist is Grace Bernard - an emotionally discrete yet upbeat woman who intentionally and happily "throttled" six members of her family unit as "payback" for her wealthy biological father's refusal to marry her mother and for family snubs.
Surprisingly, even though I was privy to all of the grisly details of Grace's horrific crimes, I never stopped rooting for her.
I admired Grace's ingenuity, creativity, planning skills, and her unwavering conclusion.
Yes, Grace was a woman with a mission and she was empowering.
The book is likewise a caustic commentary on the justice organisation.
Ironically, Grace was in jail for a murder she did not commit, yet she was never charged for the multiple murders that she did commit.
Grace's comments near her life in jail and young man prisoners, BTW, were brilliant.
Overall, this compelling tale of calculated revenge was fast-paced, witty, and riveting, from beginning to stop.
I peculiarly loved the ending's brilliant twist.
ONE CRITICISM: The writer included some political venom and BDSM mentions (in different parts of the volume!) that could accept been easily deleted without compromising the storyline.
I listened to the audiobook and the two narrators did an outstanding job.
This was author Bella Mackie'southward debut fiction volume and I look forward to listening to this author'southward futurity titles.
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One matter is when you await something from a book and then you lot realize that'due south not going to happen, another story is when the book is also outrageously bad.
Grace has a plan in life: revenge. I'm not hither to criticise that, her begetter is awful and her family are all assholes; you lot get, girl! Just good revenge needs a smart manner to be accomplished.
Now she's in jail for something she hasn't done and, the icing on the block, sh
One affair is when you await something from a volume and so you realize that'south non going to happen, another story is when the book is also outrageously bad.
Grace has a programme in life: revenge. I'1000 not here to criticise that, her father is awful and her family are all assholes; you go, girl! Only good revenge needs a smart style to be accomplished.
Now she's in jail for something she hasn't done and, the icing on the cake, she left bear witness of what nobody else knows has happened. And then fucking dumb from start to end.
Her biggest crime of all was wasting my fourth dimension, tho.
The idea is promising, Grace is a likeable character and the start chapters actually claw yous, even if you don't understand everything. Only from there on is just a agglomeration of facts of her life afterwards another, casual things that happened to her, the only two people still in her life and that horrible cellmate she unfortunately has.
It'south a big long description with few dialogues and too many sarcastic comments. It doesn't accept a lot of pages, merely if y'all cut all the craps in that location'southward basically nothing to be read.
The plague of these by years - if we exclude the pandemic, manifestly - is the publishing manufacture's obsession with creating a good-looking cover. Because yous shouldn't guess a book by its cover, but everybody does that 'crusade the cover is always a big deal!
If now I can't even trust a squeamish pink cover with a girl and a shovel, I don't know what I can trust anymore.
↠ 2 stars
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Mackie tin can't seem to decide whether protagonist Grace is a snobbish, bratty psychopath or a brave grade warrior, and that'southward what makes her so, well, vague - all we know for sure is that she's pretty awful. The murders feel e
For a book well-nigh a woman who murders six people, How to Kill Your Family unit is surprisingly... Bloodless. It's a vague, flimsy affair which relies heavily on millennial stereotypes (heck, stereotypes total stop) and the slightly juvenile writing mode does it few favours, either.Mackie can't seem to make up one's mind whether protagonist Grace is a snobbish, bratty psychopath or a brave course warrior, and that's what makes her so, well, vague - all we know for sure is that she's pretty awful. The murders feel entirely distinct from 1 another, giving the overall feel of a bunch of short stories tacked together; it's disjointed and clumsy. The denouement is slightly more than satisfying only the newcomer who suddenly pops up to deliver information technology is waif-like and thinly drawn - introducing a new voice at the very finish of a tale to necktie up loose ends neatly feels like something of a cop-out.
I was hoping for something along the lines of CJ Skuse's vivid Rhiannon graphic symbol from her Sweet Pea books - instead we're presented with a sort of cut price Fleabag with a talent contest tearjerker backstory and murderous intent. Which sounds a lot more interesting in theory than in reality, sadly.
My thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the ARC in commutation for an honest review.
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There is no real motive behind the revenge. She wants revenge on a bunch of random people she never met before just because her father didn't acknowledge her and was never in her life to begin with, and he dared to be rich on summit of it? How terribly awful. I desire to shed a tear simply I could not care les
Information technology started off with a good idea. A girl who wants revenge on her family and kills them all simply ends up being put in jail for a murder she did not commit. The idea was there. The execution was not.At that place is no real motive behind the revenge. She wants revenge on a bunch of random people she never met earlier but because her father didn't acknowledge her and was never in her life to begin with, and he dared to be rich on meridian of it? How terribly awful. I want to shed a tear merely I could non intendance less as her mother died of cancer and not from overworking or anything similar that. And so why arraign the father for… for what exactly? Having a good and privileged life in some adoptive family who exposed her to enough good things in life for our main (Grace) to go an arrogant snob who juges others for ordering business firm vino instead of some big expensive bottle…?
Grow upward, this is childish, hypocritical and snobbish. I would maybe empathise her acrimony if she was 12. Not 26. And once once more we have the trope of the girl that's and then "unique" and so "different" from everyone else by only being every bit basic, stereotypically millennial, snobbish and arrogant as any other with just a touch of deranged and vindictive psycho.
A lot of unnecessary interludes, discussing millennial issues and events. No, I do non care what her thoughts on the presidential elections are. There are then many details about side characters who appear only for a chapter that it becomes ridiculous how much fourth dimension the author is wasting with "side stories". The worst thing is that the writer purposefully do so, and while writing the "diary" or emails, protagonists keep saying how "they've been going on unnecessary tangent" just to go on some other 1 right after. So many unnecessary paragraphs that could be hands skipped. All this fabricated the pacing very boring and managed to make murders and plot twists excruciatingly plain and boring.
All the capacity are so disconnected that it gives a feeling of a series of small murders with the most cliché scenarios possible taken from cheap thrillers pieced all together, being desperately glued together with vulgar sense of humor. Stupor value that is not remotely shocking and merely gross is the lowest of ways to make something seem humours and night. I love dark and witty humour. This is neither. It's just in quite poor sense of taste. And if you don't believe me then let me just give y'all a little teaser of how much in poor taste information technology is: her uncle, sex club, choking. Did yous manage to paint yourself a very cheap murder mystery scenario? Bravo, that'south what this book did too.
Needless to say, I did not enjoy this book, and only the very concluding 3 pages of this book made me give information technology an additional star for the sheer irony. I do not understand the hype. Not for me.
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CW: fully described murders, (view spoiler)[adulterous, drugs/alcohol, scenes in 'sexual practice parties', (hibernate spoiler)]
Well that was a darkly entertaining book near a woman hell-bent on a murderous revenge.
I thought Grace was a fun main character and appreciated the thorough planning and dedication to her crusade. It felt a chip drawn out and I dozed off at a couple of points for at least xv minutes each time, merely I honestly didn't experience similar I had missed anything. I'm non sure the big twist was a
3.5 StarsCW: fully described murders, (view spoiler)[cheating, drugs/alcohol, scenes in 'sex parties', (hide spoiler)]
Well that was a darkly entertaining volume most a woman hell-bent on a murderous revenge.
I thought Grace was a fun chief character and appreciated the thorough planning and dedication to her crusade. Information technology felt a scrap drawn out and I dozed off at a couple of points for at least 15 minutes each time, just I honestly didn't experience like I had missed anything. I'thou non sure the big twist was really necessary as in my stance it slightly watered down Grace's story. Still an entertaining read!
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I had high hopes that this would become an all fourth dimension favourite, information technology had everything I could want in a book but whilst I definitely enjoyed it, information technology sadly didn't meet my possibly too high expectations. I simply wanted a little more than from it. It wasn't as funny as I'd hoped, gritty or addictive and the anticlimactic catastrophe was as flat as a pancake.
That being said, information technology was a ride and a half. I was definitely
A wild and twisted story of a conniving, cunning and terrifyingly smart adult female's quest for revenge.I had high hopes that this would become an all time favourite, it had everything I could desire in a book but whilst I definitely enjoyed it, information technology sadly didn't meet my perchance likewise high expectations. I simply wanted a little more from information technology. Information technology wasn't every bit funny as I'd hoped, gritty or addictive and the anticlimactic ending was as flat equally a pancake.
That being said, it was a ride and a half. I was definitely hooked and enjoyed the reading experience. I just wish it had been unafraid to push things a little further and intertwine the 'plot twist' more thoroughly and maybe give Grace a more conclusive end, as the concluding few capacity felt abrupt.
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honestly, my reading experience really only plummeted in the latter half of the volume. i started how to kill your family with the sense that this could be a actually entertaining and funny novel; eventually, as the story dragged onnnn, this became the acceptance that i wasn't much enjoying the volume.
i constitute this stupendously slow for a novel about a villanelle-esque family annihilator out to fulfill a bloody vendetta. grace'south deadpan cynicism was entertaining - until it became absolutely
1.5 stars.honestly, my reading experience really only plummeted in the latter half of the volume. i started how to impale your family with the sense that this could be a really entertaining and funny novel; eventually, equally the story dragged onnnn, this became the acceptance that i wasn't much enjoying the volume.
i constitute this stupendously slow for a novel about a villanelle-esque family unit annihilator out to fulfill a bloody vendetta. grace's deadpan cynicism was entertaining - until it became admittedly grating; this book is filled with inane details, repetitive sarcastic snipes (typically toward influencers, folks who are not conventionally attractive, and of course the wealthy - we got information technology the first dozen times, tbh), and monotonous play-by-plays of each murder. ("monotonous" and "murder" exercise not belong in the same sentence, but evidently they do when this book is concerned. more than to the point, my gripes are with the prose and the mode the story was told, less well-nigh the content of the murderous plot.) i also could've done without the spiels about jimmy. lastly, i felt like the ending of this novel unravelled everything the plot was building toward, wholly undermining what had already only been scraps of grace'southward clever, quasi-feminist, anti-heroine vibe.
that being said, i did accept some good belly laughs at sure points in this book; there were definitely moments when the narrator's dry humour worked for me!
thank you for buddy reading with me, sheena 💖
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I've been wanting to read a good anti-hero blazon story for a while, and though I've had my heart on the Sweetpea books, this ane caught my eye due to the cover and the hype it received.
Grace Bernard confesses in the prologue to having killed 6 members of her own family and gotten away with it, still is writing t
I'grand so annoyed that I spent £15 on this gorgeous looking hardcover with pink sprayed edges and it ended upwards being such a disappointment. I need to stop giving into hype with books similar this.I've been wanting to read a good anti-hero type story for a while, and though I've had my eye on the Sweetpea books, this one caught my middle due to the cover and the hype information technology received.
Grace Bernard confesses in the prologue to having killed vi members of her own family and gotten abroad with it, still is writing this from prison house, where she is incarcerated for a murder she did not commit. This immediately loses any sense of suspense at what is to follow, equally you know that she will exist talking nearly seven murders, one of which she didn't do and vi that she did. What follows is a diary format account of these murders, only they are not told in a straight-forward linear fashion. Instead, later on one murder nosotros jump back to the present, or back further in the past, every bit Grace decides to recount her life story forth with the murders.
The format made this incredibly difficult to read, every bit it was very slow paced, quite disjointed, and involved a lot of telling. A diary format can sometimes work, when done well, only I really don't think that this was executed that well at all. The constant telling and lack of showing means you are left feeling somewhat afar from the story and can't really deduce things for yourself. It makes for dull reading, existence told everything in such a boring style.
Grace is probably meant to be unlikeable and cold. I get it, merely it meant that I didn't really get behind her every bit a character, and didn't care what happened to her. Also, revenge stories actually do well when you empathise with the graphic symbol despite the horrible affair they are going to do for revenge. You lot root for them. I didn't root for Grace. I found her unlikeable, spoilt, contradictory, self-absorbed and roughshod. She hates fatty people, she hates instagrammers, she hates rich people, she hates men, she hates a lot of women for inane reasons, she hates everything, evidently. She too thinks that influencers make up mental illnesses for relatability and that her half-sister can't exist pansexual considering she has but dated men. She just wants her all-time friend Jimmy when she can't have him. She is brought upward in a foster family who is rich and has a lot of opportunities in life, but she hates rich people. She's but awful, and I couldn't notice a single matter to like nearly her.
Non only that, merely the plot felt kind of weak. In that location were so many weak points in the murders she committed. At one point I wondered if there had been witnesses, and it turns out There WAS. Okay, this is going under a spoiler tag, but yeah, manifestly her hole-and-corner half brother had been following her all along, and she never noticed because she's an idiot. She thinks she's existence and so secretive, and notwithstanding carries out at least three of the murders with witnesses. And and so she does the incredibly stupid thing of writing out her confession in prison where her cellmate tin read it (AND DOES). It'southward simply so stupid. Those who hated the ending are forgetting how ridiculously light-headed Grace was for not thinking of these things.
And a couple of other things: her catfishing a seventeen year former boy to do hacking then she can hack into a smart home arrangement and impale someone is just then incredibly fell and it didn't sit well with me at all. I KNOW that Grace is meant to be atrocious. I know. But I really hated that chapter, and felt incredibly uncomfortable reading it.
And her killing her cousin, who is squeamish and rejects the wealth just because she thinks that because he'south a man he will requite in eventually and become like them anyway... Well, it felt very forced and not actually a great reason to impale anyone.
Okay, I'thou sure there'southward more I didn't like most this book and this review it non as neat and clear and organised as I would similar, only I had a lot to say and write out. Suffice to say that this is a 1 star read for me, because I hated the primary graphic symbol, idea the plot was weak, thought the pacing was wearisome, and the format led to too much telling and not enough showing. Too, the lack of dialogue didn't assistance either. Overall only a book that was not my cup of tea.
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Grace grew up relatively poor with her single mom and slowly uncovered that her biological father was some rich asshole who had an affair with Grace's mother, got her pregnant, and and then promptly left her (and penniless too). When Grace'southward mother dies young and Grace finds out what kind of people she is related to, an insatiable want for revenge is born.
So off she goes, learning what she has to in order to kill her family - letting them know who did them
Grace grew upwards relatively poor with her single mom and slowly uncovered that her biological male parent was some rich asshole who had an thing with Grace's mother, got her meaning, then promptly left her (and penniless besides). When Grace's mother dies young and Grace finds out what kind of people she is related to, an clamorous desire for revenge is born.
And then off she goes, learning what she has to in order to kill her family - letting them know who did them in - and get away with it.
The problem? When we start the volume, Grace is in prison. No, non for the murder of x family unit members. The cops never found out about those. She'south been jailed for a murder she didn't commit.
Ah well, fifty-fifty with the best plan y'all come across certain route blocks, right? But when the going gets tough, the tough get going. And you tin bet your little bookworm's ass that Grace is nothing if not tough and determined.
Thus, we get to know Grace, learn most her babyhood, run across the people who helped bring her up, and are introduced to one soon-to-be-dead family unit fellow member after another complete with the skeletons in their closets. Trust me: almost all of these people deserve being killed. Horribly.
Aye, the murders themselves were but equally rewarding as the biting snark and darkly funny observations on societal classes, way/taste, love and family relations.
This volume will non be for everyone. But if you're similar me and enjoy horrible people getting what they deserve in most hilariously plumbing fixtures ways, this is the book for you.
I also very much liked the writing style with Grace's dry out, sharp and deadpan commitment also as her usually not very favourable (but very apt) descriptions of annihilation from places to people and way.
As these things go, this was ane of those coincidental finds that turned out to be one of the highlights of my reading year so far. Goose egg that will win the Pulitzer but so much fun!
P.Southward.: The audiobook was nicely read, simply the narrator obviously didn't know how to pronounce certain words (1 case was Chianti which she pronounced not with a "g" in the beginning but with a "sh", which made my skin crawl).
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