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A review by madeleinefranz
The 50/50 Killer by Steve Mosby
1.0
It always pains me to give a book a bad review but this one just wasn't for me. Since I hate leaving a book unfinished however I read it till the end, hoping it would get exciting at some point. But it didn't happened.
It was a very long lasting, boring plot. Hardly anything happened? I was not able to built any sort of connection to any of these characters, as there simply was no one whom I felt sympathy for. John and Eileen's relationship was written sloppy which is why the developments it took during the investigation were not really 'troubling' to me. I simply did not care about them. There were side plots that did not contribute to the main story and the time spent on them could have been easily used to add some more depth to the main characters instead (rather than making them clichés). The end was a surprise yet failed to get me excited as it seemed like a such big stretch? It felt as if all the action the book has been lacking up till now, was then shoved into the last few pages, which did not help it at all.
Again; I am really sad it turned out to be such a disappointment because I was really excited to finally read the book, as both the synopsis and the reviews were so promising.
It was a very long lasting, boring plot. Hardly anything happened? I was not able to built any sort of connection to any of these characters, as there simply was no one whom I felt sympathy for. John and Eileen's relationship was written sloppy which is why the developments it took during the investigation were not really 'troubling' to me. I simply did not care about them. There were side plots that did not contribute to the main story and the time spent on them could have been easily used to add some more depth to the main characters instead (rather than making them clichés). The end was a surprise yet failed to get me excited as it seemed like a such big stretch? It felt as if all the action the book has been lacking up till now, was then shoved into the last few pages, which did not help it at all.
Again; I am really sad it turned out to be such a disappointment because I was really excited to finally read the book, as both the synopsis and the reviews were so promising.