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KnittedMushroom

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Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Fiction/LGBT+ I always want to be reading more than I already am. Support your local libraries! Mastodon: stranger.social/@KnittedMushroom

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Rupert Holmes: Murder Your Employer (Hardcover, 2023, Avid Reader Press) 4 stars

FROM EDGAR-WINNING NOVELIST AND PLAYWRIGHT RUPERT HOLMES COMES A THRILLER WITH A KILLER CONCEPT: THE …

I'm going to preface all of this with the fact that murder mysteries are not my usual genre. This book had been recommended to me by a friend as "similar to Hitchhikers Guide." While the written wit does start similarly, I found myself struggling to feel absorbed into this world and invested in the characters.

It reads like "a series of events." The events were neither dramatic, joyous, or interesting in any manner to me. I understand that the main character, and thus you, are supposed to be thrust into a confusing and antithetical to "normal" life world. But every action that had even a minor tinge of drama and excitement was heavily underscored by the "but since we're in school, there was never any danger" excuse.

I actually put this book down at the end of a chapter where the character is yet again hurtling to his death, because …