A review by mrspancakes
Strangers We Know by Elle Marr

medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

This was bizarrely written and full of plot holes and a main character that, honestly, was shockingly lacking in any amount of common sense. And so many lazy tropes that it all felt wholly unoriginal.

An “FBI agent” that walks up to a woman in a coffee shop and just openly divulges information about a serial killer. Flashbacks to “the past” in chapters narrated by a character that is almost wholly unconnected to literally every other thing happening in this book. There’s a supposed “Full Moon Killer” and the main character listens to some random man she met alone in a bar that she should hide out safely with him in his motel because it’s a full moon. A Grandma pulling some Dexter-vigilante shit. Main character is searching for answers to her mystery illness, which turns out to be lupus. Trying to prove Dr. House wrong? The letter she received that had words missing to make it sound ominous, of course was actually just a nice letter from her, shocker, not-dead birth parents sent to her?
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