A review by salad_kat482
#murdertrending by Gretchen McNeil

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

The writing made me learn so many new words. I loved the banter. Everything up until "Mara" made sense to me. It was when Grieselda came out and said, "I got it" was when the real twist hit for me. Honestly, props to Dee. I thought at first the "Postman" wanted to kill Dee because she killed Slycer, the Islands #1 killer. She wanted to get revenge on Dee for killing her father. Her wanting to be sisters with Dee, and the Postman killing Monica made so much sense. I feel bad for the real Mara. I thought it was weird when Dee couldn't see her face after she was gassed, but I didn't think anything of it. I wondered what would happen If the Paniacs realized someone else was running the Island. The Postmans daughter Kimmi didn't do all those deaths because she somehow knew about Monica's death, but she did it because she told her father to kill Monica, because Monica was Dee's actual sister. So much goes into this book. There's a lot of stuff you have to think about and isn't directly told to you. This was a good book. I still thought Dee and Nyles romance was out of the blue. I didn't really understand how Griselda came to like Ethan romantically. Ethan was flirting with her because of the roles and he was gay. I didn't know how to write a review on this book because theres so much to talk about in this book. So I just wrote what came to mind. Anyways this book was really good, so four stars.

Note: There's so many funny quotes for this book. Why are there only seven??