Started on 4.6.25, finished on 4.6.25

I had seen a lot of people posting about this one so I had somewhat high hopes, but unfortunately it really didn’t work for me. It’s a quick read with a pretty solid, scary, and effectively gross story, but for me it was also a bit shallow, obvious, and majorly lacking in character development.

***Spoilers ahead!*** I feel like this has come up a few times for me in the last few years. When a book is written from the killer’s perspective, there has to be so much character development and careful groundwork laid in order to make the jump from likable, sympathetic protagonist to literal murderer make sense and not feel totally forced. This doesn’t get there for me, so once that switch happened, the whole rest of the book was pretty hard to stick with.

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My favorite quotes:

“Anyways, have you ever heard of a white man treating his girlfriend or wife badly? Because I haven’t!”

“Appa knew nothing about California, except what he had heard in passing and seen in movies. Supposedly, it was a place where people grew fat and rich in their enormous houses and loud American cars.”