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A review by acourtoffairytale
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
3.0
Okay, I'm thinking 2.75✨ JUST for the epilogue, and I'm being generous.
I picked up this book because I saw reviews saying that this combined murder, mystery and humor, but let me tell you something, I didn't laugh, not once.
That was supposed to be a good plot, a writer who suddenly becomes a hit lady, and it had a lot of good subplot drama, like the custody battle or the romance.
But then, the worst happened. I hated Finlay Donovan. She is the blandest character ever, nothing amuses her. Killing someone by accident? A regular Thursday night for her, apparently.
The fact that also, all her problems could be solved in a normal way, making schedules for her kids or herself to write, but she's all boohoo poor me...
I liked more Vero's character than Finlay. I even liked more Nick's character, until he decided that he wanted to hook up with Finlay in the back of her car on duty WHILE ON WATCH FOR A SUSPECT OF MURDER.
Also, Julian??? Was he supposed to be a main character and then wrote out??
Every murder was absurd. There's also the fact that you're supposed to be thinking all the time about who is really murdering these people, why Patricia disappeared, why Theresa is working for the mob... but I couldn't care less tbh
The only reason I gave 2.75 stars was for the very last phrase of this book, because despite this, I'm hooked on why someone is trying to get her ex-husband killed.
I picked up this book because I saw reviews saying that this combined murder, mystery and humor, but let me tell you something, I didn't laugh, not once.
That was supposed to be a good plot, a writer who suddenly becomes a hit lady, and it had a lot of good subplot drama, like the custody battle or the romance.
But then, the worst happened. I hated Finlay Donovan. She is the blandest character ever, nothing amuses her. Killing someone by accident? A regular Thursday night for her, apparently.
The fact that also, all her problems could be solved in a normal way, making schedules for her kids or herself to write, but she's all boohoo poor me...
I liked more Vero's character than Finlay. I even liked more Nick's character, until he decided that he wanted to hook up with Finlay in the back of her car on duty WHILE ON WATCH FOR A SUSPECT OF MURDER.
Also, Julian??? Was he supposed to be a main character and then wrote out??
Every murder was absurd. There's also the fact that you're supposed to be thinking all the time about who is really murdering these people, why Patricia disappeared, why Theresa is working for the mob... but I couldn't care less tbh
The only reason I gave 2.75 stars was for the very last phrase of this book, because despite this, I'm hooked on why someone is trying to get her ex-husband killed.