People Like Us

This was... boring but I kept reading to see if it would get better (it didn't) and I wanted to see who did the deed. Then I managed to figure out who the perp was a couple of chapters before the main character did and it was still... very boring.

Kay, the main character, was as boring as a dry piece of barely-toasted toast (I like my toast very dark). I think the only thing I knew about her was that she played soccer (but then didn't at all throughout the book because they'd stopped practice due to the death). To be honest, I don't even know if she liked soccer or was just doing it because she was mostly good at it and could get a scholarship.

There were too many chapters for my liking. So many times a new chapter would start and I stare at my phone like “what do you mean ANOTHER chapter?” It's not that I don't mind a lot of chapters in a murder mystery book; just that they should make sense and are mostly, if not all, interesting. This had neither of that.

The whole murder and the mystery, let's be honest here, was also boring and made no sense to me. Most of me reading this book was just “but why?” and none of it compelled me. Plus I didn't like the narrator. The motives for the murder felt flat and not really believable to me, plus I didn't care for the reasons.

Kay said she had friends but I... didn't see it. Even Brie – their whole friendship had me rolling my eyes whenever they were on the same page. Honestly, maybe if Brie were the main character I would enjoy it more? Still things would have to change then. I don't mind catty teens (well I can sort of handle them) but them in here just annoyed me so much because that was just their entire personality. Plus their cattiness was involved with a lot of the mystery and I didn't like how that was handled either.