[books 2013] Killer Move
Mar. 24th, 2013 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulro16. Killer Move by Michael Marshall
Somehow I failed to notice when this came out, but it was sitting on the shelf last time I was in the library, so no harm done.
It's about a completely non-sympathetic character, a Florida real estate agent who's big into the "positivity blogging" community and making Life Plans. Small weird things start happening to him, and he's soon implicated in a series of murders. The point is that even though he's an ass, nobody had the right to mess with his life like that.
I've always thought that Marshall's best thriller was his first, The Straw Men, and everything since has been downhill, and this pretty much confirmed that feeling. (I thought things might be picking up with Bad Things). It was entertaining and un-challenging and I read it in 3 days, and the concept of "modifying" someone's life was moderately interesting, but I didn't feel it added anything to, well, anything. Glad I didn't buy it.
Somehow I failed to notice when this came out, but it was sitting on the shelf last time I was in the library, so no harm done.
It's about a completely non-sympathetic character, a Florida real estate agent who's big into the "positivity blogging" community and making Life Plans. Small weird things start happening to him, and he's soon implicated in a series of murders. The point is that even though he's an ass, nobody had the right to mess with his life like that.
I've always thought that Marshall's best thriller was his first, The Straw Men, and everything since has been downhill, and this pretty much confirmed that feeling. (I thought things might be picking up with Bad Things). It was entertaining and un-challenging and I read it in 3 days, and the concept of "modifying" someone's life was moderately interesting, but I didn't feel it added anything to, well, anything. Glad I didn't buy it.
