John Marrs is the author of The One, a book we discussed recently on this blog. You Killed Me First is very different from The One. This is good because many authors are very repetitive and monochromatic.
There’s nothing science-related, futuristic or socially-minded in this novel. There’s something that can be perceived as vaguely paranormal, or not, if you don’t like that stuff. The novel depicts women being catty to each other. Hundreds of pages of women being catty. I enjoyed it massively. I’m not part of the Mom culture, so I don’t experience this in real life. It was fun to come back to my hotel room in Hamburg after a whole day of academic socializing and listen to a non-demanding story about women calling each other fat every 3 pages, trying to seduce each other’s husbands, and murdering people to keep the plot going. Any sociability, even with people I like as much as I did the colleagues at the conference, depletes my energy, and I need to recover. This book served that purpose beautifully.
John Marrs’ books are all on Kindle Unlimited with a free Audible version, and I’m planning to plough through all of them. I want to see if they are all as different as the first two I read by him.
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I recently finished read The Wronged Sons. This was Marr’s first published book, I think. Upon your recommendation I decided to read his books in publication order other than in the order you have reviewed them. Excellent book, thanks for pointing me the way.
Currently reading another of your recommendations, about half way through it – also a good read.
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Where did you read The Wronged Sons? I’m very eager to find a copy.
Glad you are enjoying the author!!
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OK, stupid question, I figured it out! Looking forward to reading it.
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