How to Kill Your Family: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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How to Kill Your Family: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

How to Kill Your Family: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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She also thinks that influencers make up mental illnesses for relatability and that her half-sister can't be pansexual because she has only dated men. There were some chapters where we’re treated to her reflections on life in prison, the futile attempts to reform prisoners and the stupidity of her fellow inmates. How unfair that she finds herself as a prisoner when nobody knows the crimes she actually committed. Speechify lets you listen to any text, including all books in the world with the best voices out there! In an interview with Marie Claire magazine Bella Mackie said " This book is all about men having power over women and the system being rigged to make men win.

How to Kill Your Family had a strong narrative voice and some amusingly cynical comments about the empty lives of rich people. Her victims are all the worst type of people and Mackie’s descriptions of their shallow lifestyles seem spot-on. A lot of it was unnecessary as the novel is meant to be about Grace’s revenge against her relatives. The plague of these past years - if we exclude the pandemic, obviously - is the publishing industry’s obsession with creating a good-looking cover. We don't see too many dominant side characters in this book, only her friend Jimmy who has stuck by her during the bad times (he isn't aware of her family-esque murdering spree).There’s a lot that fell flat for me in How to Kill Your Family, but a key gripe was that the chapters were endless. The novelty value of those cynical comments wore off before I’d got a quarter of the way into the book. She wants revenge on a bunch of random people she never met before just because her father didn’t acknowledge her and was never in her life to begin with, and he dared to be rich on top of it?

I've been wanting to read a good anti-hero type story for a while, and though I've had my eye on the Sweetpea books, this one caught my eye due to the cover and the hype it received. Amidst the chaos of the calculated revenge plot are flashes of humour and Grace’s hilarious but true observations about the mundanity and bizarreness of life.And dare I say it but we actually get some satisfaction when they happen, or at least I was satisfied when they took place and you can take from that what you will about my personality!

Read, enjoy, comment, and make links but don’t post or publish this material elsewhere without my permission. I started Book for Thought in 2014 as a space to record my thoughts on books I read and be a part of the wonderful online book community. Doesn’t the big twist undermine Grace’s whole character and arc, as well as the book’s theme of smart women outwitting arrogant victims?We are disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising. I’m no Pollyanna, but reading books that are critical of everybody else, whether intended to be satirical or not, tends to be a negative experience. Grace has been planning her outrageous plot since she was teenager, working her way through her own very bleak to do list…. But as rings true throughout the novel as a whole, she is there for reasons we later discover are far more complicated than would be contained in a straightforward murder – arrest – imprisonment plot.

I laughed out loud on more than occasion, recognising the Instagram generation and their constant pursuit of affirmation and the next dopamine hit of a few thousand likes. I expected to enjoy this one more than I did, but found there to be too much back story which seemed like unnecessary filler that slowed the pace down to a crawl! Needless to say, I did not enjoy this book, and only the very last 3 pages of this book made me give it an additional star for the sheer irony. I’m a firm believer in having to be in the right mood for a book and it’s entirely possible that I simply wasn’t in the right mood for this one, but equally, I cannot believe in Grace recording a full, detailed record of her actual crimes while locked up for the one murder she didn’t commit. I enjoyed the journal form, even though it made very little sense to me why Grace should ever want to commit to paper a full account of every murder she committed and so far got away with.Unfortunately the long chapters of this book is a definite drawback, it sometimes took me a while to get through the chapters (I read little and often rather than in big chunks! It has big pieces of Ginger and Orange and has the perfect balance of being light but also very refreshing.



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