Fiction Can Be Murder

I received this book through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review

DNF @ 55% BUT I did read skim one more section and read the last 5ish%

1.5 stars

For not liking the main character I got pretty far into this book. Yeah, I disliked the main character, that is my biggest problem with this book. Charlee, the main character, is blunt to the point of almost not caring and not the smartest tool in the shed. Pretty much the whole book is her checking on the alibi's of all of the people who read, or could have read, her unpublished manuscript. Those people? Most are friends. So, Charlee will be like, “Hey, where were you on....” and the friend obviously knows what happened then and why Charlee is asking. She doesn't sugarcoat it at all.
She isn't sneaky about her asking about either. A lot of the time she is like a bull in a china shop. Also, she is the most judgmental character I have read in a long time, actually saying yes we need to judge people by what they look like.

In this way, all the characters seemed one dimensional. Charlee had tunnel vision, the cops seemed uptight, and all the book group members had their one or two things that made them different.

I did read the last 5% of the book as well, so I know how it ended and .... it was only solved in that last 5%. Wow, that is rushed. Also, seriously, she was just checking alibis most that time?? Anyhow, the ending seemed rushed and I don't feel there was a way to predict it, which doesn't follow being a mystery book – that is what thrillers do. Mysteries usually lay out clues which the reader can choose from. I don't know, I feel like at this point I'm being nitpicky.

The mystery and how it was done was interesting, the rest of the book? Not so much.