A review by henvika
Someone Had To Do It by Danielle Brown, Amber Brown
2.0
spoilers below:
extra stars for nate HONESTLY THE LEAST PROBLEMATIC LOVE INTEREST SINCE RAVI SINGH
i just felt the mystery kicked off way too late which made every scene in the latter half contribute something to the mystery
obviously every scene should further the plot but it shouldn’t be all about furthering the investigation. there should be some character growth, some scenes that build stakes rather than just serving to provide a clue. a lot of the clues felt handed out rather than earned and there were too many full length conversations where they discover something that was just out of reach.
plus the big plot twist was revealed in such a low stake way that the rest of the book, the ending, the resolution, just felt anti climactic.
also wanted taylor to be really psycho killer, slowly becoming this monster that hurts the people she loves to get what she wants, but instead she’s still justifying her reasons and we don’t even see her after she gets caught, just a quick mention that she didn’t cry
since it was double perspective and we knew who killed her dad, it would have been better if the plot more so centered on having the reader struggle to wonder whether brandi or taylor were in the right even partially. making brandi slightly more evil making taylor again less over the top villain and more this subtly progressing psychopath would have helped that.
that way at the end when she just goes too far, hurting her friends and her stepmother, it’s like “okay, she deserved what came for her” but before that it would’ve been a real struggle because the two protagonists were both anti-heroes.
extra stars for nate HONESTLY THE LEAST PROBLEMATIC LOVE INTEREST SINCE RAVI SINGH
i just felt the mystery kicked off way too late which made every scene in the latter half contribute something to the mystery
obviously every scene should further the plot but it shouldn’t be all about furthering the investigation. there should be some character growth, some scenes that build stakes rather than just serving to provide a clue. a lot of the clues felt handed out rather than earned and there were too many full length conversations where they discover something that was just out of reach.
plus the big plot twist was revealed in such a low stake way that the rest of the book, the ending, the resolution, just felt anti climactic.
also wanted taylor to be really psycho killer, slowly becoming this monster that hurts the people she loves to get what she wants, but instead she’s still justifying her reasons and we don’t even see her after she gets caught, just a quick mention that she didn’t cry
since it was double perspective and we knew who killed her dad, it would have been better if the plot more so centered on having the reader struggle to wonder whether brandi or taylor were in the right even partially. making brandi slightly more evil making taylor again less over the top villain and more this subtly progressing psychopath would have helped that.
that way at the end when she just goes too far, hurting her friends and her stepmother, it’s like “okay, she deserved what came for her” but before that it would’ve been a real struggle because the two protagonists were both anti-heroes.