Bella Mackie Collection 3 Books Set (How To Kill Your Family, Jog On, Jog on Journal)

Product Information

I can understand why the chapters were laid out as they were, but I really wish the longer ones had been broken up. I didn’t find the reasoning for the vendetta totally compelling, but as the book progressed, I felt it actually didn’t matter. Grace is on a revenge mission, taking out every one of her estranged upper class family to settle a score and inherit the family wealth. A caveat: there is a political jab made early in the book, so I set it aside, but the positive reviews of Goodreads friends (Ceecee, Michael, and Jayne) led me to pick it up again. Still, Grace had to be the FUNNIEST, SNARKIEST most SARCASTIC character that I have EVER met, and I enjoyed her dark humor!

How To Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie: read an extract How To Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie: read an extract

Grace is a novice, she was doing it for the first time and I was doing it for the first time and neither of us really knew how to kill people,” she laughs. And then she does the incredibly stupid thing of writing out her confession in prison where her cellmate can read it (AND DOES). You would need to give full and clear credit to “Karen Heenan-Davies, Book Talk” with links to the original content. As she’s happy to recount to the reader in all the gory detail, she plotted and executed the murders of her father’s family. Surprisingly, even though I was privy to all of the grisly details of Grace's horrific crimes, I never stopped rooting for her.You’ll have to have your 21-year-old influencer girlfriend upstairs doing yoga and I’ll be banging on the ceiling saying, keep it down please”. Amidst the chaos of the calculated revenge plot are flashes of humour and Grace’s hilarious but true observations about the mundanity and bizarreness of life. Even her 75-year-old mother-in-law “a lovely person” confessed she was sad that things didn’t turn out better for Grace in the end. The novel follows Grace Bernard on a quest to get revenge against her father and her family - Grace is, frankly, so immediately unlikable and snobbish that I almost didn’t keep going past the first chapter.

How To Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie: A review - Cherwell

I want to shed a tear but I could not care less as her mother died of cancer and not from overworking or anything like that. Such is the power of Mackie’s writing that I was plunged so far into the protagonist’s psyche that not only did I observe her thoughts but I began to understand her, almost unquestionably.After all, almost nobody else in the world can possibly understand how someone, by the tender age of 28, can have calmly killed six members of her family. i was attracted to this book bc of the anti-heroine promise as i love an unlikeable, morally grey female character - but grace as a character was far too muddled, and it was clear that the author still hadn’t fully fleshed her out. Grace, who we meet in prison, is the sort of anti-heroine that's having a cultural moment in TV series like Killing Eve and movies such as Promising Young Woman. Overall, this compelling tale of calculated revenge was fast-paced, witty, and riveting, from beginning to end.

How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie | Goodreads How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie | Goodreads

And a couple of other things: her catfishing a seventeen year old boy to do hacking so she can hack into a smart home system and kill someone is just so incredibly cruel and it didn't sit well with me at all. I love this book - cleverly written and you became sympathetic to the murderer and were willing her on in her endeavours. No novel is ever perfect, especially for a hyper critical English student such as myself, but here let me focus on all that was enjoyable about this novel. All the chapters are so disconnected that it gives a feeling of a series of small murders with the most cliché scenarios possible taken from cheap thrillers pieced all together, being desperately glued together with vulgar humour.Outrageously funny, compulsive and subversive, perfect for fans of Killing Eve and My Sister, the Serial Killer. I expected to enjoy this one more than I did, but found there to be too much back story which seemed like unnecessary filler that slowed the pace down to a crawl! Grace isn't your typical protagonist - whilst definitely being unlikeable, snarky and judgemental, (as well as a murderer) she is equal amounts funny, dry and intelligent, making her the perfect anti-hero.