Kill Your Friends

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I was immediately drawn to How to kill your best friend because of the title (not that I plan to kill any friend) and the cover. Look at those colors! Gorgeous! Scattered around his desk and perched on his shelves are various Star Wars products; little X-Wing fighters, a Millennium Falcon, a big R2D2 that’s actually a phone. Like many men in the record industry in their late twenties/early thirties Waters thought Star Wars was cool. Just looking at his dismal toys feels like justification enough for killing the cretin.” Elliott’s latest (after The Missing Years) is a great thriller with lots of red herrings and a blindsider of a twist ending.”― Library Journal Fuelled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine Stelfox blithely criss-crosses the globe ( 'New York, Cologne, Texas, Miami, Cannes: you shout at waiters and sign credit card slips and all that really changes is the quality of the porn') searching for the next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification.

How to kill your friends by Phil Kurthausen | Goodreads How to kill your friends by Phil Kurthausen | Goodreads

It is the sort of novel I imagine I might have enjoyed as a 15 year old, full of, you know, violence and drugs and sex and music and people who are young and make loads of money and just don't give a shit about anything, yeah. I know it's a satire, but it's a miserable experience reading it. It tells the story of Steven Stelfox, an A and R man in the late 1990s and truely one of the most despicable charachters in fiction. His deeds are bad enough but you also get his inner monologue - the things he filters out are beyond belief but very funny.

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However I found myself getting confused at multiple points - both at the plot and the character's bizarre behaviour. So I’m not always a huge fan of a slow burn thriller like I found in How to Kill Your Best Friend but this one was not so bad. Perhaps it was the fact the mystery was taking place in a luxurious vacation type of setting which I always adore or the creative format with the murder lists interspersed between the chapters but whatever it may be I did enjoy waiting for the action to unfold. It could definitely have used a bit less focus on the swimming in the middle though. The other thing that I found with this one was I was quite sure I knew what would happen and was just waiting to find out the specifics at the end. So combine the slower pace and what seemed easy to solve for me as an avid read I ended up giving this one three and a half stars overall. Not a terrible book, but nothing captivating either. It's a decent, well-written summer mystery if you're looking for something to pass the time.

KILL YOUR FRIENDS | Kirkus Reviews KILL YOUR FRIENDS | Kirkus Reviews

This is a well-written mystery-thriller about the death of one of a group of friends. Cleverly inserted throughout the book are various methods of potentially killing one's best friend. Whose ideas are these and why are they included? Who wants someone dead and why? How to Kill Your Best Friend is the second novel I have read from Lexie Elliott. I absolutely love her writing style.But just when I thought everything had ended, something else popped up. And I was definitely not expecting that. Definitely feels like it walks the line of being a YA novel and an adult novel at some points, creating a drastic tone difference between some chapters. I appreciated the whodunit aspect and returning some forms of the classic formula but the mystery wasn't engaging enough for me to keep a close note of all the clues and suspicions.