Ratings70
Average rating3.3
Okay so here's the thing...I think this was an entertaining and well done story, but I have an issue with the end/reveal so let me explain.
I feel somewhat duped, while I think the end gag was cool I really hated it because it felt so pointless and hollow. Like the whole time I'm listening to this unwell man who has learned nothing and is kinda just whining after literally killing a woman...and I felt cheated and duped for that. If I'd known that was the story I really wouldn't have bothered. This is genuinely why I'm weary of reading stories written by men. So he just shoots the woman he supposedly loves, but we find out really has an obsession with and has weaseled his way into her life, but it just ends and he kills her of all the people in on the joke/game. That's super not what I was looking for and kinda ruins the whole thing if you're not on board considering the whole thing is his perspective and story. It's giving...women aren't people. I don't think the book is actually trying to make this point or condoning the behavior, to be clear. there's also a weird bit about him being kept by this writer and he was never actually a writer but stole her work based on their fucked up relationship? Ngl I was irritated and didn't get all that.
Anyway all that is to say, I know that technically this book deserves higher stars that what I felt for it, cause it was a well done story, just not one that I liked very much based on the reveal.