Kill Your Friends

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Excellent edge-of-your-seat mystery/thriller beginning on an island and a storm coming, so it's a good thing they wait the storm out because it gets really good towards the end. My favorite lines: 1) Meredith nodded and looked again at the image. It made her stomach twist with excitement and fear. 2) Olivia would be furious and this made Meredith smile. The story is more a collection of thoughts/experiences as he goes through copious drugs/booze/sex trying to unearth the next big thing. Along the way, he has a couple of goes at killing one of his work rivals - the first time is hilarious and then gets a young policeman involved in the investigation (who just happens to be a musician) involvded in the cover up and 2nd subsequent murder. Una via di mezzo tra il nichilismo esasperato dei romanzi di Bret Easton Ellis e la follia autodistruttiva dei personaggi di Irvine Welsh, sullo sfondo della scena musicale degli anni '90. The story line was a little mixed up and slow, but it worked out in the end because of Ms. Elliott’s writing style and creativity. 3/5

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Everyone looks suspicious of something, Georgie and Bron have close calls with danger, the weather turns bad, and now they are all stranded on an island that has turned murderous. Who is the anonymous person narrating the passages at the beginning of each chapter? Unreliable narration is a very real possibility. The premise sounded so interesting. A group of friends with deep dark secrets revisiting the island where their best mate died? Count me in! I loved how this book showed the darker side of friendship, and how you accept people despite all their flaws out of loyalty. When all is said and done I didn't really love the twists or the motives behind the various actions. I heard this is being made into a movie or series for HBO, and I think that might actually be a much better venue for this story. I spent so much of the time trying to figure out the connections between the various characters that seeing faces would really help to make things flow better. It's a very slow paced book, because from start to finish it only covers a couple of days and overall not much happens until the end. The slow set-up does make the book rather plodding for a while, it certainly would have benefitted from a "And Then There Were None" scenario or more clues and surprises unearthed along the way to keep it from being so predictable. Kill Your Friends' - John Niven's debut novel of 2008, a so-called satire on the music business, through the eyes of one Steven Stelfox A&R agent in the music industry, set in 1997. Book review: The Sunshine Cruise Company by John Niven". The Independent. 13 August 2015. Archived from the original on 13 June 2022 . Retrieved 25 January 2019.

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Book Genre: Comedy, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Humor, Literature, Modern, Music, Mystery, Novels, Thriller So I’m not always a huge fan of a slow burn thriller like I found in How to Kill Your Best Friend but this one was not so bad. Perhaps it was the fact the mystery was taking place in a luxurious vacation type of setting which I always adore or the creative format with the murder lists interspersed between the chapters but whatever it may be I did enjoy waiting for the action to unfold. It could definitely have used a bit less focus on the swimming in the middle though. The other thing that I found with this one was I was quite sure I knew what would happen and was just waiting to find out the specifics at the end. So combine the slower pace and what seemed easy to solve for me as an avid read I ended up giving this one three and a half stars overall.

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How To Kill Your Friends is a well-written psychological suspense thriller, set in Barcelona, about a completely amoral young woman and her narcissistic friends, by a British author who is to me. While I’m trying hard to limit the number of ARCs I request, to catch up with the books I already have, I was intrigued by the title, the cover, and the blurb, so requested and received an ARC.All is resolved. A happy ending ensues for Mr Stelfox - he gets what he wants at the record company, and seemingly gets away with murder. For now at least. Georgie and Bronwyn are quite suspicious of the circumstances behind Lissa’s death, but they go to the resort to honor their friend’s passing. They are faced with bad weather and a sinister feeling during their stay on the island. They start to dig around for answers, but all they keep getting are more questions and secrets that are better off staying buried. Georgie, Lissa and Bronwyn have been Best Friends since their days together on their college swim team. I LOVED the different methods of killing your best friend put in there between chapters (not that I’ll ever use them,) and I thought that was a really creative idea and the way it connects with the events in the chapter before or after it was really clever as well. Also finding out who was writing it and why they were doing so adds to the mysteriousness of everything.

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An atheist and a republican, Niven refuses to sing " God Save the Queen" on ideological grounds. [ citation needed] Bibliography [ edit ] As we spend the days on the resort island, things seem to get more dangerous for everyone, and everyone seems to be acting a little strangely. Each chapter begins with the clever musings of an undisclosed narrator-on how you MIGHT be able to murder your best friend.. As author Lexie Elliott lists ways to kill your best friend and the pros and cons of each, she presents a mystery about university swim team members who reunite at an island resort for the memorial service of a group member who disappeared while swimming at night. After the service, they catch up with each other as they try to understand why a strong swimmer like Lissa would put herself at risk in the open waters near the resort she owned with her husband. Soon the remote location, ominous messages, and their own secrets are exposed, as fellow swimmers Georgie and Bron try to figure out what’s going on before something terrible happens to them.The author does keep you on your toes. Everyone is a suspect and, as always, secrets start to surface and strange things start happening around the resort. The story is fairly slow paced and I found myself wanting more of the snarky narrator who popped in occasionally talking about various ways to kill people. But he comes with an infallible love for himself, a cocaine habit that'd tank an elephant and an undying affection for crass porn, which all blossoms to insane heights as he hits the motherlode of self-pity, because... Best swimmer friends gather to celebrate the loss of their friend Lissa who is drowned at Kanu Lake where is filled with mythical creatures like serpentine and the very same haunted place always likes to take and take!