Kill Me review
Jul. 19th, 2008 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearI won't bore people by discussing this book in detail, as lareinemisere has already done so, and much better than I probably could.
Kill Me by Stephen White started out as the kind of book I find it very difficult to read properly. That kind of book is a modern-day thriller, of the sort that is much more interested in plot than in style or character. I generally find myself less than impressed by the writing, but hooked enough on the plot that I want to find out what happens without having to actually read the damn thing - which results in me skimming and coming away unsatisfied by the reading experience.
However, this one turned out to be a cut above those kinds of books, with quite a lot of psychological exploration of the main character's motivations, and not a bad narrative style to boot. So, I read it properly and really rather enjoyed it. There were a couple of inconsistencies that made the timeline a bit confusing, and I didn't ge the Jolie Borden joke (still don't - Google has failed me), but it was good enough for me also to be thinking about getting more by the same author.
Kill Me by Stephen White started out as the kind of book I find it very difficult to read properly. That kind of book is a modern-day thriller, of the sort that is much more interested in plot than in style or character. I generally find myself less than impressed by the writing, but hooked enough on the plot that I want to find out what happens without having to actually read the damn thing - which results in me skimming and coming away unsatisfied by the reading experience.
However, this one turned out to be a cut above those kinds of books, with quite a lot of psychological exploration of the main character's motivations, and not a bad narrative style to boot. So, I read it properly and really rather enjoyed it. There were a couple of inconsistencies that made the timeline a bit confusing, and I didn't ge the Jolie Borden joke (still don't - Google has failed me), but it was good enough for me also to be thinking about getting more by the same author.
