What I Read This Year (2024)
So I picked this up at Melbourne Airport a few weeks ago when we were heading home from a wedding. Didn't realise it is a follow-up to "Kill Your Brother" (Jack Heath, 2021), but that didn't prove too big an issue as there's more than enough context provided within the narrative and from the characters who feature in both texts to make-up for my not having read the first book.
It was a pretty easy read, and I enjoyed the red herrings that are thrown in the way as you move between various characters' POVs as the chapters switch between points in time (events before, during, and after the fatal weekend) as well as perspectives/narrative voices. It works well to keep the reader (especially one who is only reading for around 20 minutes a day during her lunch break) guessing as to who committed the murder/s and why. There's also the element of unreliable narrator as the perspectives given in each chapter are coloured by that specific character's issues and motivations.
Recommend if you enjoy a whodunit with a decent resolution. Heads up there is some negative body-image in the narrative with one character struggling/dealing with issues around weight and aging, also discussion of infertility and the difficulties of IVF.
