The resolution was not so surprising as it has been done before, and it was a bit drawn. There were a couple of really long chapters towards the end that I found pretty boring. When everything seemed said and done there was a last twist I did not foresee at all. At the beginning of each chapter, a method is given how to kill your best friend by an anonymous author. Then each chapter is told in alternating narrators, Bronwyn & Georgie. These two might have been Lissa's best friends, but they were a dysfunctional group..... full of lies and deception. They apparently have trust issues with one another.

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It tells the story of Steven Stelfox, an A and R man in the late 1990s and truely one of the most despicable charachters in fiction. His deeds are bad enough but you also get his inner monologue - the things he filters out are beyond belief but very funny. This book is profane, vulgar, cynical, violent, non PC and immensely funny. I enjoyed it very much. Find sources: "John Niven"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( June 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) An intricate, twisting story…a suspicious death is only one of the secrets among a group of old friends on an isolated island.”– Shelf Awareness Whilst it's quite feasibly perhaps an accurate or exaggerated picture of the music/A&R industry as experienced by Niven for a decade - a world that is hugely irreverent, iconoclastic and imbued through and through with toxic masculinity. It's a world painted here by Niven of nevererending drug and violent sex fuelled existence - filled with, consumed by resentment, hatred and loathing.Georgie, Lissa, and Bronwyn were once the best of friends as they bonded in university over their shared love of swimming. The trio has now been split apart with the death of Lissa and Georgie and Bronwyn don’t know how to feel losing their best friend. The ladies have gathered at Kanu Lake to mourn their friend but Georgie cannot fathom how Lissa could have possibly drowned, the best swimmer among them. Things just do not feel right on the island despite the gorgeous surroundings or beautiful villas. How To Kill Your Friends is a well-written psychological suspense thriller, set in Barcelona, about a completely amoral young woman and her narcissistic friends, by a British author who is to me. While I’m trying hard to limit the number of ARCs I request, to catch up with the books I already have, I was intrigued by the title, the cover, and the blurb, so requested and received an ARC. Like with a lot of films I love, I'm often drawn to dark and disturbing novels. I think it's because I'm so cheerful and happy in real life. It's kind of like a balancing act. And to me it's almost like immersing yourself in and learning about a different culture.

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Definitely feels like it walks the line of being a YA novel and an adult novel at some points, creating a drastic tone difference between some chapters. I appreciated the whodunit aspect and returning some forms of the classic formula but the mystery wasn't engaging enough for me to keep a close note of all the clues and suspicions. The French Girl commands attention. The author provides the perfect dose of character development before unveiling eerie details from her cast’s past, ensuring that we’re properly unnerved when their lives begin to unravel.” –The Associated Press I didn’t know how this novel would progress and for the first half, found my attention span wandering. However, the pace and intrigue undoubtedly intensified in the latter half, allowing me to secure this with a four-star rating. There were a lot of conversations with this group of friends that were swimming legends in college. They are gathering for a memorial to honor one of their friends that supposedly drowned. Lissa was an excellent swimmer so some found it almost impossible to believe she had drowned, but rumors abound about a possible murder or suicide. There was a cute scene when Meredith met Edu at a bar for the first time. I liked that the characters were somewhat unlikable, especially Olivia. It made them seem more relatable. There definitely weren’t any Mary Sues in this book. Amy was a famous fashion vlogger who was quite flaky at times. I probably liked her the most. It seemed like she was more accepting of things than the others in the group.

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The language is crude, debauched, snide & totally politically incorrect. It's certainly NOT for the feint hearted- and honestly I can understand that. It really is below the belt in a lot of ways & I consider myself pretty open minded when it comes to books & movies. (Yet, apparently not so much as I thought, because I must be the only the person in the world who found Bad Santa really distasteful.) A violent surfacing of adolescence (which has little in common with Tarkington's earlier, broadly comic, Seventeen) has a compulsive impact. The story line was a little mixed up and slow, but it worked out in the end because of Ms. Elliott’s writing style and creativity. 3/5 Daily Record & Sunday Mail - Scottish News, Sport, Politics and Celeb gossip". dailyrecord . Retrieved 12 September 2022. The story is more a collection of thoughts/experiences as he goes through copious drugs/booze/sex trying to unearth the next big thing. Along the way, he has a couple of goes at killing one of his work rivals - the first time is hilarious and then gets a young policeman involved in the investigation (who just happens to be a musician) involvded in the cover up and 2nd subsequent murder.

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Begins with a Gothic hint that rapidly segues into a suspenseful thriller with a breathless twist of denouement.”– New York Journal of Books

Excellent edge-of-your-seat mystery/thriller beginning on an island and a storm coming, so it's a good thing they wait the storm out because it gets really good towards the end. But as the hits dry up and the industry begins to change, Stelfox must take the notion of cutthroat business practices to murderous new levels in a desperate attempt to salvage his career. But just when I thought everything had ended, something else popped up. And I was definitely not expecting that. Georgie is out of sorts from the very start. She arrives late, she didn't get the memo on the dress code for the memorial ceremony, and most importantly, she cannot believe that Lissa would have made that swim at night, alone, voluntarily.