Genre: Adult Fiction – Crime / Mystery
Published: 2021
Format: eBook
Rating: ★★★★
I’ve wanted to read this for a while, basically since it came out! So, when I saw it was on kindle sale I couldn’t resist. I wasn’t disappointed either. The characters aren’t particularly sympathetic or likeable, but it works. And being told in the first person, part as a written memoir and part an account of time in prison, is a winning combination.
There were humorous moments and a twist at the end. I figured the end wouldn’t be as straight forward as Grace had imagined it would be, getting her hands on the Artemis fortune. But I didn’t see what happened at the end coming at all. And the end wasn’t even told from Grace’s point of view, which was a bit of a let-down. There were points when the book was just too long and rambling, and parts could have been cut down or left out altogether.
However, it was a very engaging and generally well-written book and, although the characters aren’t very likeable and don’t really elicit any sympathy, you want to know what happens to them and follow their journeys. It was funny in places, with comments about social media and the lifestyle of the rich and famous, but that wasn’t the main object. It was a satirical acknowledgement that some people get it better than others, and that from Grace’s point of view it was always those who didn’t deserve it and were horrible people, hence her murder crusade.
Some of the chapters were perhaps overly long and could have done with being split. I like to be able to stop reading at the end of a chapter but that wasn’t always possible here. However, I did enjoy the book. It’s different to other things I’ve been reading recently, and the premise engaged me straight away. I wanted to know how Grace would do it, and whether she would face any consequences at the end for the murders she did commit, rather than the one she didn’t.
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