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A review by entrancedbywords
Dying Scream by Mary Burton
2.0
I've owned a copy of Dying Scream for a while and finally got around to reading it.
The prologue opens with a shocker, giving me a chance to understand what the killer's motivation is. Once we get into the first chapter, it swings around a different path.
Giving the illusion that its about domestic abuse, that Adrienne is trying to resettle her life and her husbands and his family are dead.
Unfortunately the synopsis says one thing, while the prologue reveals the card too easily. I feel like the author should've scrapped the prologue if they wanted to keep the mystery, otherwise reveal the twist in the synopsis cause the two feel mismatched in the story.
By page 100 I started to skim over pages, it felt like the author was repeating minor details, such as clothing, mundane human tasks and household items. There's only so many times I can read that throughout a book.
One thing that did frustrate me was the way flashbacks were done. I was always under the assumption that the number one rule of flashbacks was they were done in italics. Unfortunately this book doesn't do that, which means you'll read a present scene and suddenly your left re-reading a scene because you hadn't clocked that it was a flashback.
Because there was too many characters to follow, when the twist of the killer was revealed, I had forgot who that particular character was and ended up losing interest.
The final chapter feels too rushed, it's as if the author forgot about the twist and put it in barely 10 pages.
Than the epilogue was essentially a recap of the book in three pages.
The prologue opens with a shocker, giving me a chance to understand what the killer's motivation is. Once we get into the first chapter, it swings around a different path.
Giving the illusion that its about domestic abuse, that Adrienne is trying to resettle her life and her husbands and his family are dead.
Unfortunately the synopsis says one thing, while the prologue reveals the card too easily. I feel like the author should've scrapped the prologue if they wanted to keep the mystery, otherwise reveal the twist in the synopsis cause the two feel mismatched in the story.
By page 100 I started to skim over pages, it felt like the author was repeating minor details, such as clothing, mundane human tasks and household items. There's only so many times I can read that throughout a book.
One thing that did frustrate me was the way flashbacks were done. I was always under the assumption that the number one rule of flashbacks was they were done in italics. Unfortunately this book doesn't do that, which means you'll read a present scene and suddenly your left re-reading a scene because you hadn't clocked that it was a flashback.
Because there was too many characters to follow, when the twist of the killer was revealed, I had forgot who that particular character was and ended up losing interest.
The final chapter feels too rushed, it's as if the author forgot about the twist and put it in barely 10 pages.
Than the epilogue was essentially a recap of the book in three pages.