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A review by jennaaps
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
emotional
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
4.75
One of my favorite books. The author being a stand up comedian must have really helped with the delivery and references in this book, because it does the fourth-wall-breaking first-person POV so incredibly well. Usually they bug the hell out of me but this one didn’t nearly at all.
I want to give it a 5 because of how much I enjoyed it and how well he wrote the suspense and surprises, while purposefully handicapping himself by giving away some of it (which was respectable and made it so so fun to read). However… some of the backstory got a bit too convoluted. It might help rereading it (which I actually do see myself doing), but I’m not entirely sure.
Compared to the previous mystery (Flavia de Luce) I just read, I have to appreciate the complexity, though. There was just so much more to it and there were tons of :0 moments, instead of the reader being able to easily solve this halfway through. Mind you, it would be possible to solve this before the denouement.
I could go on, but essentially this is the subversive, self-aware, witty mystery book of my dreams. Thank you, Australia.
I want to give it a 5 because of how much I enjoyed it and how well he wrote the suspense and surprises, while purposefully handicapping himself by giving away some of it (which was respectable and made it so so fun to read). However… some of the backstory got a bit too convoluted. It might help rereading it (which I actually do see myself doing), but I’m not entirely sure.
Compared to the previous mystery (Flavia de Luce) I just read, I have to appreciate the complexity, though. There was just so much more to it and there were tons of :0 moments, instead of the reader being able to easily solve this halfway through. Mind you, it would be possible to solve this before the denouement.
I could go on, but essentially this is the subversive, self-aware, witty mystery book of my dreams. Thank you, Australia.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicide