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A review by alexabookish
How to Survive Your Murder by Danielle Valentine
5.0
okay first, PLEASE do not judge based on this cover. it’s definitely not the worst cover, but in my opinion, it makes it look a lot more juvenile than it is. okay onto my thoughts: i
have a weakness for teen slasher books. i LOVE the idea of them, but i have not found one that i have actually thought was good. until this one!
there are a couple thing that make it stand out to me. the first is that there is a supernatural element to it. not ghosts or anything, but a supernatural time element. i’m not into books that are supernatural usually, but the one exception to that is books that play with time and time travel or time loops. i LOVE to see it.
i loved that horror movie and true crime references, i enjoyed the mc a lot, and i thought the writing was great for what the book it–a teen slasher. there were a lot of parts about the writing and structure and planning that i really admired. as a beginner thriller writer, i got to the end of this book and thought “damn, there are so many thing about this that i hope i can capture in my book” i did kind of predict the end, but not in a bad way, if that makes sense. as i got closer to the end, i had a thought about how it would be really cool if the author would be able to pull of a certain character being the killer, but i didn’t know how it would happen or even make sense. but i got to the end, and the author did pull off the reveal, and everything came together in a way where i was like “ooohhhh that’s how it all happened. of course, there were all these clues” which is EXACTLY how i want to feel at the end of a mystery. i want to surprised, but have clues to point to that i remember from earlier in the book that makes it all come together. reveals that come out of the blue are my pet peeve, and luckily that didn’t happen here.
have a weakness for teen slasher books. i LOVE the idea of them, but i have not found one that i have actually thought was good. until this one!
there are a couple thing that make it stand out to me. the first is that there is a supernatural element to it. not ghosts or anything, but a supernatural time element. i’m not into books that are supernatural usually, but the one exception to that is books that play with time and time travel or time loops. i LOVE to see it.
i loved that horror movie and true crime references, i enjoyed the mc a lot, and i thought the writing was great for what the book it–a teen slasher. there were a lot of parts about the writing and structure and planning that i really admired. as a beginner thriller writer, i got to the end of this book and thought “damn, there are so many thing about this that i hope i can capture in my book” i did kind of predict the end, but not in a bad way, if that makes sense. as i got closer to the end, i had a thought about how it would be really cool if the author would be able to pull of a certain character being the killer, but i didn’t know how it would happen or even make sense. but i got to the end, and the author did pull off the reveal, and everything came together in a way where i was like “ooohhhh that’s how it all happened. of course, there were all these clues” which is EXACTLY how i want to feel at the end of a mystery. i want to surprised, but have clues to point to that i remember from earlier in the book that makes it all come together. reveals that come out of the blue are my pet peeve, and luckily that didn’t happen here.