alobear | Kill Me review

I 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.