Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone: A Novel (The Ernest Cunningham Mysteries, 1)
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I’m going to say it: this is my favorite murder mystery ever! It’s complicated and over the top, there are way too many twist and it’s full of genre defining clichés. Where this really shines is the writing style; self aware quips, talking to the reader and creating assumptions based on very distinct descriptions, only for one missing detail to flip it all. The book opens with 10 rules every fair mystery should follow and our narrator is so truthful he immediately tells you in which chapters there will be a death. One of my favorite moments was when I felt very clever, because I realized that in their section that family member hadn’t killed someone, only for the narrator to call that out in the next paragraph!
Family Murder Feud on a Snowy Winter Escape. Entertaining, smart and witty, interesting narration breaking the fourth wall and clever twists. While I loved this style in the first half, the second draaaaagged. “Meta” gets a bit much here.
“Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it’s who’s you’d spill it for.” “I promised to be reliable, not competent.” “Anger is as much an heirloom as any Rolex.” “There is only one plot hole you could drive a truck through.”
This was a solid read that didn’t quite hit my taste of mystery novel. We follow a the protagonist Ernest Cunningham going to a family reunion at a snowed in ski resort. Shortly after his arrival they find a man in the snow that died under mysterious circumstances. What I really liked here was the narration style. He talked directly to the reader and did so in a funny and unconventional way for a mystery. The protagonist met the reader as someone who knows all the typical plot points and twists of a mystery. I would have liked it even more if these interludes were longer throughout the whole novel and not just predominantly at the beginning and end parts. Sadly the characters and the mystery itself didn’t really do anything for me. They weren’t bad- they just weren’t quite my taste. I would pick up another book by the author since his writing style was entertaining and fast paced.
Well, this was very anticlimactic overall. The writing style was fine, I quite liked the talking directly to the reader part so I finished the book even after guessing it was going towards one of the tropes I hate the most in mystery. Honestly, the book just feels like "I'm not like the other girls" in book form. It talks about other mystery books problems but there are so many books that follow the rules this one looks down on and are still much better in the end.
Beschreibung
Beiträge
I’m going to say it: this is my favorite murder mystery ever! It’s complicated and over the top, there are way too many twist and it’s full of genre defining clichés. Where this really shines is the writing style; self aware quips, talking to the reader and creating assumptions based on very distinct descriptions, only for one missing detail to flip it all. The book opens with 10 rules every fair mystery should follow and our narrator is so truthful he immediately tells you in which chapters there will be a death. One of my favorite moments was when I felt very clever, because I realized that in their section that family member hadn’t killed someone, only for the narrator to call that out in the next paragraph!
Family Murder Feud on a Snowy Winter Escape. Entertaining, smart and witty, interesting narration breaking the fourth wall and clever twists. While I loved this style in the first half, the second draaaaagged. “Meta” gets a bit much here.
“Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it’s who’s you’d spill it for.” “I promised to be reliable, not competent.” “Anger is as much an heirloom as any Rolex.” “There is only one plot hole you could drive a truck through.”
This was a solid read that didn’t quite hit my taste of mystery novel. We follow a the protagonist Ernest Cunningham going to a family reunion at a snowed in ski resort. Shortly after his arrival they find a man in the snow that died under mysterious circumstances. What I really liked here was the narration style. He talked directly to the reader and did so in a funny and unconventional way for a mystery. The protagonist met the reader as someone who knows all the typical plot points and twists of a mystery. I would have liked it even more if these interludes were longer throughout the whole novel and not just predominantly at the beginning and end parts. Sadly the characters and the mystery itself didn’t really do anything for me. They weren’t bad- they just weren’t quite my taste. I would pick up another book by the author since his writing style was entertaining and fast paced.
Well, this was very anticlimactic overall. The writing style was fine, I quite liked the talking directly to the reader part so I finished the book even after guessing it was going towards one of the tropes I hate the most in mystery. Honestly, the book just feels like "I'm not like the other girls" in book form. It talks about other mystery books problems but there are so many books that follow the rules this one looks down on and are still much better in the end.