That Night in the Library

I take most adult mystery thrillers with grains of salt. Young Adult (mystery thriller) I'm more fine with. But I'm trying to shop around and see exactly what I'll like and dislike from Adult books. Unfortunately while this looked really good and I was interested at the start it petered out quite fast. I didn't like the deaths, I really didn't like the ending. I could see how it could've been better but unfortunately it didn't go that way.

I liked locked room mysteries, I like it when people are getting picked off one-by-one and anyone could be the killer. This had all three but just threw it all away for an nonsensical ending. And the characters seemed to be interesting all for the first few chapters. Every time I thought I liked one of the characters they did something or said something and we were back to the beginning. The book might've been more interesting and likeable if Davey, the one character, just wasn't there. He was totally my least favourite and thought himself to be the bee's knees. I don't think I even had a favourite, or, the character I disliked the least.

In most Adult mystery/thriller books it's the characters I don't like. Their personalities, how they treat the characters around them and their dialogue. I like unlikeable characters but only if they're written well. They were well-written in here but because I didn't like their personalities at all, it was hard to like their unlikeable personalities. I don't know if that makes much sense.