A review by booking_along
The Foxglove Killings, by Tara Kelly
5.0
*Disclaimer: I received this copy through NetGalley in exchange for a honest review*
Book review can also be found on my blog
You might think your know the people in your life. But do you?
That is really the first thought I had, after finishing this book. Which should tell you something!
But lets start at the beginning, shall we?
When i first started to read this book -for about the first 10% or so of it really- i was unsure about it.
The characters felt rather boring and the constant naming and trashing people got on my nerves a bit.
But i read on, and thank god i did!
It seems that Kelly needed those first few pages to get into her writing style, because the rest of the book is really good!
She manages to suck you into the story, telling details and giving information about what is happening and hints of who might be connected without actually giving the answers away.
I love it when a thriller doesn't give away who the actual murderer is until the last few pages, that is why i read the damn thing to begin with! To be at the edge of my seat until the last few pages.
This book clearly does that!
Kelly really manages to write interesting characters and relations between them, put a spin on situations and go to extremes. But not over the top.
For most of the book it doesn't feel like you are reading about teenagers, but an adult thriller -mostly because those kids just go nosing around in business they should really not be nosing around in at their age! Still....
There are some parts -like i said the beginning and a few sentences here and there in the rest of the book- that shows that sometimes the author tried to bring in this whole teenage situation and name calling and overdone dramatics. But mostly, Kelly focused on the story itself and the mystery about the crimes.
You all should read it. It is fantastic! Just push through those first few pages/percent of the book and get sucked into a heart-racing, edge-of-my-seat reading experience!
Honestly this book to me is what i expected from Gone Girl, with the kind of praise that book received. And while i did not feel that way about Gone Girl at all, to me this book -Foxglove Killings- actually would deserve all the price about never knowing what actually happens, never knowing who you can trust, and a narrator that has no idea what the heck is going on, just as the reader does!
Go read it! It is worth every second!
Book review can also be found on my blog
You might think your know the people in your life. But do you?
That is really the first thought I had, after finishing this book. Which should tell you something!
But lets start at the beginning, shall we?
When i first started to read this book -for about the first 10% or so of it really- i was unsure about it.
The characters felt rather boring and the constant naming and trashing people got on my nerves a bit.
But i read on, and thank god i did!
It seems that Kelly needed those first few pages to get into her writing style, because the rest of the book is really good!
She manages to suck you into the story, telling details and giving information about what is happening and hints of who might be connected without actually giving the answers away.
I love it when a thriller doesn't give away who the actual murderer is until the last few pages, that is why i read the damn thing to begin with! To be at the edge of my seat until the last few pages.
This book clearly does that!
Kelly really manages to write interesting characters and relations between them, put a spin on situations and go to extremes. But not over the top.
For most of the book it doesn't feel like you are reading about teenagers, but an adult thriller -mostly because those kids just go nosing around in business they should really not be nosing around in at their age! Still....
There are some parts -like i said the beginning and a few sentences here and there in the rest of the book- that shows that sometimes the author tried to bring in this whole teenage situation and name calling and overdone dramatics. But mostly, Kelly focused on the story itself and the mystery about the crimes.
You all should read it. It is fantastic! Just push through those first few pages/percent of the book and get sucked into a heart-racing, edge-of-my-seat reading experience!
Honestly this book to me is what i expected from Gone Girl, with the kind of praise that book received. And while i did not feel that way about Gone Girl at all, to me this book -Foxglove Killings- actually would deserve all the price about never knowing what actually happens, never knowing who you can trust, and a narrator that has no idea what the heck is going on, just as the reader does!
Go read it! It is worth every second!